Extradition Looms for Assange After UK Supreme Court Refuses to Hear His Appeal
The British judicial system has erected still another barrier to Julian Assange’s freedom. On March 14, the U.K. Supreme Court refused to hear Assange’s appeal of the U.K. High Court’s ruling ordering his extradition to the United States. Assange could face 17 charges under the Espionage Act if extradited to the United States for trial. […]
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Angela Rayner questions Dominic Raab over Lord Lebedev peerage
Angela Rayner and Dominic Raab faced off in Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon, with the Labour deputy leader leading on security concerns around Lord Lebedev’s peerage. Rayner confronted the deputy prime minister about reports that British security forces had warned against Evgeny Lebendev being granted a seat at the House of Lords. Raab stated Lord […]
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‘Disability assessment process needs changing’
The health assessment system for awarding benefits doesn’t “capture the needs” of disabled people, according to an expert in the sector. Tracey Lazard, CEO at Inclusion London, told the work and pensions committee that “neither PIP or WCA actually accurately understand or capture the needs and the barriers that disabled people experience.” Lazard added: “It’s […]
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Truss says West ‘let its guard down’ after Cold War
The foreign secretary has claimed that western powers failed to fence in Putin as they “let down” their guard in the wake of the Cold War. Truss told the Sun newspaper that Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea was not responded to adequately as the West “let down our guard” following the demise of the […]
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Anderson Cooper’s ’60 Minutes’ Softball Infomercial for Pete Buttigieg
The long-running CBS News program “60 Minutes” has a manically split personality: Vicious attack dogs when Republicans are in power, but supportive infomercial producers under Democrats. Take March 13 for example, when Anderson Cooper hosted a promotional segment for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the “bipartisan infrastructure bill.” Buttigieg was touted as “40 years old, […]
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Coal Baron Manchin Says He’ll Vote Against Biden’s Climate-Friendly Fed Nominee
Conservative Democrat coal baron Sen. Joe Manchin (West Virginia) has announced that he is opposed to President Joe Biden’s nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to the Federal Reserve board, throwing uncertainty into whether she will have enough votes to be confirmed by the Senate. In a statement, Manchin said that he is “unable” to support […]
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Russian Dissident Who Held “No War” Sign on TV Was Briefly Missing, Lawyers Say
An employee of a Russian television station who went missing after she protested the government’s war with Ukraine on the air has been found, her lawyers indicated on Tuesday. Marina Ovsyannikova was the editor at Russia’s state-run Channel 1 station on Monday. interrupted a live broadcast of the country’s most-watched news program by holding up […]
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US Sewer Data and Surges Abroad Should Remind Us the Pandemic Isn’t Over
Although the testing of wastewater to detect viruses in a whole population has been done since the days when polio was a problem, it took until the March 2020 COVID-19 outbreak to make it practical. in AustriaThe technique has been made a major part of the pandemic fighting. The U.S. has seen the elimination of […]
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A Tiny Christian College Is Fueling the Right’s Nationwide War on Public Schools
This is the first in a three-part series on Hillsdale College and its charter school network. It also examines the connection between Hillsdale College and the national struggle for education. Costa Mesa’s February 2 mood was more love bomb that fire bomb. It was yet another packed school board meeting with passionate parents. But this […]
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Ginni Thomas, Wife of Clarence Thomas, Attended “Stop the Steal” Rally on Jan. 6
Ginni Thomas, a far right activist and wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, admitted in an interview published on Monday that she attended the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Thomas told The Washington Free Beacon that she attended the rallyIn support of former […]
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