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Monday, February 3rd, just before 9 p.m., the airport Holiday Inn, Des Moines, Iowa. A crowd of supporters and volunteers for Sen. Bernie Sanders is buzzing. After four years of being shat upon by party officials and media allies alike (CNN and MSNBC are seen in Sanders crowds as Goebbels-ian …

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Greenpeace knows how to protest. The nongovernmental organization has been demonstrating on behalf of the environment for nearly half a century, and it certainly hasn’t let up since the climate crisis‘ exacerbation in recent years. During this week’s World Economic Forum, its representatives have flooded the snow-packed …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s actions have left the House with “no choice” but “to proceed with articles of impeachment,” signaling House Democrats will vote to impeach the president and send his case to the Senate for a trail. “Today I am asking our chairman …

Internet trolls don’t troll. Not the professionals at least. Professional trolls don’t go on social media to antagonize liberals or belittle conservatives. They are not narrow minded, drunk or angry. They don’t lack basic English language skills. They certainly aren’t “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds,” as …

Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman is a decorated combat veteran whose career in the armed services spanned more than two decades. Republicans are now trying to paint Vindman as having dual loyalty to Ukraine, the country he emigrated to the United States from as a small child. During Vindman’s testimony before …

Last Sunday President Donald Trump was loudly booed and greeted with “lock him up” chants while attending Game 5 of the World Series in DC between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros. On Saturday night, it happened again at a UFC fight at New York’s Madison Square Garden. But according …

Renas Zuber lights another cigarette as the carnage plays out on TV. Two days after a temporary cease-fire was called on the Turkish invasion into northern Syria, civilians are under siege in the border town of Serekaniye. Cellphone footage looping onscreen shows a man writhing on the ground in a …

Two sets of headlines over the weekend described the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post Sunday morning: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48 The Post has since rewritten that, though the description of an “austere religious scholar …

Air quality in the United States is getting worse, and research suggests the dirty air is taking years off Americans’ lives. According to a study published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, fine particulate pollutionincreased 5.5 percent between 2016 and 2018, and evidence suggests the spike is …

President Trump has famously boasted he could shoot a man in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City and not lose any political support. Now Trump’s lawyers are arguing that the president could get away with it legally, too — at least while he’s in office. The Justice …