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In the early hours of last night, Senate Republicans pushed forward with their reckless plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Shortly after 1 a.m., while most Americans were sleeping, Republican legislators passed a resolution containing a measure that initiates the process to repeal the ACA. The vote was 51–48, along party lines. Democrats used the amendment process to try to improve the resolution, with more than 160 amendments being offered but rejected. The House could vote on the bill as early as Friday.
He worked in Moscow in the 1990s and now runs a private intelligence firm.
He worked in Moscow in the 1990s and now runs a private intelligence firm.
The tenacity and determination Obama showed to make his high school basketball team was an early indicator of the greatness to come.
Spy author and intelligence historian Nigel West noted three major discrepancies within the Trump dossier, written by his friend, Christopher Steele.
Nearly five years after the torture and assassination of Bangladeshi labor leader Aminul Islam, the country's garment-sector employers and the government continue to persecute workers who try to exercise basic rights. In the three weeks since a December strike to protest the paltry $68 per month minimum wage, garment employers and the government have again shown their hostility toward workers and their rights. At that wage, workers in Dhaka would need to spend 60% of their income solely to rent substandard housing in a slum, leaving little to live on in a city about as expensive as Montreal (where the minimum wage is more than ten times higher).
William Peter Blatty, the author of "The Exorcist," has died. He was 89.
William Peter Blatty, the author of "The Exorcist," has died. He was 89.
Chicago police routinely violated residents' civil rights over a period of several years, the Department of Justice said Friday as it announced the results of a year-long investigation sparked by the shooting death of Laquan MacDonald. The misconduct included a pattern of unconstitutional arrests and use of excessive force by the country's second largest police department, and a failure to adequately examine those transgressions, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.
Automotive supplier Takata is expected to pay $1 billion and plead guilty to charges of criminal wrongdoing to settle a DOJ probe into its airbags.
