Month: September 2020

A boarding technology for travelers using JetBlue is causing controversy due to a social media thread on the airline’s use of facial recognition.  Last week, “'So Overboard It Should Be Illegal': Use of Facial Recognition in Airports Draws Anger”

Rep. Ilhan Omar is being targeted once again by both Republicans and Rupert Murdoch’s right wing media machine, raising concerns among her supporters and colleagues “'Stop With This Recklessness': Allies Warn Right-Wing Attacks Could Get Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Killed”

Climate action groups applauded Washington Gov. Jay Inslee as he became the first 2020 Democratic presidential contender to commit to a 100 percent renewable energy “Climate Campaigners Praise Gov. Inslee's 'Spirited Commitment' to Action, While Calling on 2020 Candidate to 'Push the Envelope'”

Federal lawmakers and anti-war voices are vowing to challenge the Trump administration’s attempt to exploit a legal loophole to allow the export of billions of “Trump's Use of Emergency Loophole to Export US Bombs to Saudis, Critics Warn, Will Only Intensify World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen”

Tuesday was the most anticipated, most hyped — and likely most-watched — midterm election of modern times. The reason was simple: It was widely seen as “Midterms: The winners and losers”

Click:mining defoamer A Florida judge in a Monday ruling told Democrats and Republicans invested in the Florida recount battle to “ramp down the rhetoric,” warning that unsubstantiated allegations of “Florida judge: ‘Ramp down the rhetoric’ in recount”

Sen. Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerRand Paul introduces bill to end no-knock warrants Black lawmakers unveil bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol Harris grapples with “Booker to campaign for Dem in Mississippi Senate runoff”

As new polling showed Tuesday that public support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign has continued to rise as she’s introduced a series of ambitious “Warren's New $2 Trillion Green Manufacturing Plan Welcomed as 'Win-Win' for Climate and Workers”

Farmers and residents across the Midwest are currently “living climate change,” according to experts and scientists who are observing catastrophic flooding from one of the “Extreme Flooding Across Midwest 'Exactly In Line' With Scientific Warnings of Climate Crisis: Experts”

There has been a steady stream of heartbreaking news at the southern border under the President Donald Trump administration, including the jailing of children and “Horror on the Border: Slew of Recent Incidents Highlight Human Rights Crisis”