Losing the Popular Vote, Trump Ekes Out Enough Electoral Votes to Claim Presidency: Street Protests Follow
NEW YORK — Protesters dissatisfied by Donald Trump’s stunning victory took to the streets on Wednesday in several cities. In...
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Trump May Have Used Illegal Scheme To Skip Paying Taxes
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has basically admitted that he avoided paying federal income tax for years in the 1990s....
Voters will soon be casting their ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington to raise the minimum wage
Voters, “tired of waiting” for federal lawmakers, will soon be casting their ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington to...
An Anti-Environmentalist Trump Presidency Would Likely Mean 3.4 Billion Tons More Carbon Emissions
A new analysis of policies promised by US Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump by Lux Research has shown...
Stormtrooper GOP Senator Threatens Hillary Clinton
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) joked during private remarks about putting a bullseye on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, CNN reported...
Obama Economy Slashes Poverty Rate
If such a large percentage of the American people weren’t plagued with willful ignorance and inherent stupidity, or an inability...
To Keep Drug Prices High Big Pharma Spends Over a Hundred Million Dollars to Defeat California Ballot Measure
There is a fiercely fought and extremely expensive political battle raging in California over the passage of Proposition 61, an...
Donald Trump would give massive cut tax cuts to the richest one percent, adding trillions to the national debt
The Tax Foundation, a conservative D.C. think tank created to argue for lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations, found that...
From Abuse of Women to Abuse of the Tax Code Donald Trump Reeks of Entitlement
When Donald Trump mentioned in his presidential announcement speech last summer that Mexico was “sending rapists,” he made the prevention...
Journalist Amy Goodman Invokes 1st Amendment Rights Against N. Dakota Pipeline Company
October 13, 2016 – Award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, charged with criminal trespassing for filming an attack on Native American-led pipeline...
Wells Fargo Hustler CEO John Stumpf Walks Off With $130 Million
Stumpf opted for early retirement amid controversy, but the longtime bank boss is walking away with around $130 million, according...
Another Donald Trump Con: Donald Poses As ‘A Blue-Collar Kinda Guy’
President Obama debunked the myth of Donald Trump as a blue collar populist while rallying voters in Ohio for Hillary...
600 Megawatt Colorado Wind Farm Blows Past ALEC Roadblock
The powerful lobbying organization ALEC has been trying to trip up the US wind industry for years, but it looks...
Donald Trump Claims His Billionaire “Star” Status Allows Him To Get Away With Molestation
WASHINGTON ― A New York Times editorial says the issue with Trump’s lewd comments isn’t the lewdness. It’s that Trump...
Union Workers Launch #BoycottTrump Protest After His Refusal to Negotiate at Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, NV – Citing federal law allowing boycotts for the purpose of forcing an employer to honor their duty...
Justin Bieber Condemns Big Pharma For Blocking Medical Marijuana Legalization
Medical marijuana advocates have a new ally ― and he’s tweeting his support to a massive audience. Justin Bieber criticized...
Exxon Mobil Sued Over Climate Change Cover-Up
The environmental advocacy group Conservation Law Foundation has made good on its threat to sue Exxon Mobil Corp., filing what it says is the...
Giuliani Attempts to ‘Put Lipstick on a Pig’ by Defending Trump’s Tax Dodging
Rudy Giuliani went on ABC’s This Week and added to the woes of the Trump campaign with a series of...
Community Solar Project to Retrain Underemployed and Unemployed Coal Miners
San Diego-based Solar Alliance Energy plans to build a 500 kW community solar generation and battery storage project in Southern...
Clinton Proposes Raising Taxes on U.S. Billionaire Estates
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed raising taxes on inherited property to 65 percent for the largest...
Trump Brags About Ripping Off Workers, Profiting from the Housing Crisis and Gaming the System
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged Monday night about taking advantage of the housing market crash, an architect he once...
Donald Trump Busted for Using Charity Money to Settle His Lawsuits
The Washington Post has revealed that Donald Trump used more than $250,000 from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits against...
Republican Leader Paul Ryan’s Tax Plan is a Massive Handout to the Richest One Percent
Paul Ryan (WI), Republican Speaker of the House, has lately fashioned himself as a crusader for the poor, apologizing for...
Political Thug Chris Christie Knew About Bridge Lane Closings as They Happened, Prosecutors Say
NEWARK — Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey knew that three of his top officials were involved in a plan...
Lust for Profits Behind Opioid Epidemic
Opioid addiction rates have skyrocketed over the past two decades, costing millions in health insurance costs and lost productivity in...
California Governor Calls Out Big Pharma On Price Gouging
On Friday, California governor Jerry Brown signed off on a new state law that would allow businesses such as restaurants...
Studies Show Trump’s Economic Plan Would Rig the Tax System Even More in Favor of the Richest One Percent
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump touted a retooled economic plan on Thursday, promising to provide middle-class tax cuts and eliminate perks...
Elizabeth Warren: Executives At Wells Fargo Who Scammed Customers Should Return Money
In the wake of the fraud scandal at Wells Fargo, Senator Elizabeth Warren has joined with a group of senators...
Republican Candidate Donald Trump Bought A 6-Foot-Tall Portrait Of Himself With Charity Money
In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity — the Donald J. Trump Foundation — to buy...
Middle Class Americans Just Got a Huge Income Boost
It looks like Americans finally got a raise. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday released its annual report on income,...
Oil Industry Unleashes Attack Dogs and Pepper Spray on Native American Protestors
For the second time in as many weeks, Americans are learning that their 1st Amendment right to free expression, including...
Koch-Republicans Hope the National Park Service’s 100th Anniversary Will Be Its Last
In normal circumstances when an anniversary arrives the farthest thing from anyone’s mind is that it may be the last,...
Fox Pays Gretchen Carlson $20 Million as Restitution for the Sins of Sexual Predator Roger Ailes, Former CEO of Fox News
It has been exactly two months since Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, sued her old boss, Roger Ailes,...
Shady Dealings at the Trump Foundation Lead to IRS Penalty
Donald Trump paid a $2,500 IRS penalty, the Washington Post reports, over that $25,000 contribution his charitable foundation made to Florida Attorney General...
For Republicans It’s “Anti-Labor Day”
Any human being who has ever ran a business, unless it is completely “owner-operated,” comprehends that without a labor force,...
Drugs And The Corporate Elite: The Case Of The EpiPen
Cash and carry has become nothing more than standard operating procedure in politics and government, and it’s wrecking the republic....
Right-Wing Corporate Media Ignores The Fact That Obama is Officially America’s Greatest Job Creator President
Guess who gets no credit for record setting job growth that is hardly a one-off since it’s going on for...
Donald Trump’s Energy Proposals Cater to Fossil Fuel Billionaires at the Expense of Humanity
Donald Trump told the Detroit Economic Conference this week that he will propose “a complete rethinking of our energy policy.” What...
New Koch-Funded Group Aims to Promote the “Positives” of Dirty Fuels
A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling US Forward made its public debut at the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, where the organization’s President and CEO Charles Drevna gave...
Conspiracy Kooks Breitbart and Donald Trump Funded By Right-Wing Hedge Fund Billionaire Robert Mercer
RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Before becoming Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway ran a Super PAC she ran one of the...
ExxonMobil Pays Lip Service To Environmentalism While Contributing To Republicans Who Block All Efforts To Combat Climate Change
Over the course of the past couple of years some of the giants in the oil industry have intimated that...
Fake Populist Donald Trump Doesn’t Stand Up For Workers
Conservative lawmakers have been pushing to pass a federal piece of legislation entitled the National Right to Work act which...
As The World Burns, The Rich Cruise In Luxury Through A Melting Arctic
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
Richest One Percent Willing to Swallow Trump’s Lunacy to Get Their Tax Cuts
By now, it’s obvious to everyone with open eyes that Donald Trump is an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying...
The Ultimate Crony Capitalist: How Donald Trump Profited from Public Subsidies & Political Favors
“It’s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father...
The Oil Industry Wrote The Book On How To Burn Up the Planet
A new discovery into the true corruption of the oil industry and it’s relationship to Big Tobacco is sending shockwaves...
