Sen. Tammy BaldwinTammy Suzanne BaldwinBiden launches program to turn out LGBTQ vote We need a ‘9-1-1’ for mental health — we need ‘9-8-8’ Democrats introduce bill to rein in Trump’s power under Insurrection Act MORE (D-Wis.) trounced Republican Leah Vukmir in Wisconsin’s Senate race on Tuesday, clearing her way to a second-term in the chamber. Baldwin’s win is welcome news for Democrats, who have touted their strength in Midwestern states that President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE won in…

If President Donald Trump “gets his way” on healthcare by fully repealing the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday, “thousands of people will literally die.” “I think we should join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee healthcare to all people as a right.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders”Trump has an idea on healthcare. His idea is to throw 32 million Americans off of their health insurance they have, doing away with insurance for kids who are 26 years of age or younger who are on their parents’ plan, doing away with the protections that the ACA has for pre-existing conditions,” the senator from Vermont and 2020 presidential candidate said…

A journalist whose work focused on Northern Ireland’s troubled past was killed Thursday night in the latest in a series of militant escalations that are increasing in frequency as the United Kingdom and Ireland reckon with Brexit.  Clashes broke out Thursday in the Northern Ireland city of Derry as police forces attempted to raid suspected militant homes.  Lyra McKee was shot, allegedly by dissidents, during the violence. McKee died shortly thereafter.  The raid came in advance of Easter Sunday, which has significance for Northern Irish republicans who want to reunify Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland and see the continued division of the island as a leftover from centuries…

A new study shows that media outlets frequently echo the instinct of political leaders like President Donald Trump when they refuse to label the violence of far-right assailants as “terrorism” while showing significantly less reluctance if an attack was carried out by an Islamic extremist. The British media monitoring firm Signal AI found that most news sources are quick to draw links between incidents identified as “Islamist” attacks and terrorism, but are far less likely to do the same when an attack suspect is linked to far-right ideologies like white nationalism. “Reporting on Islamic extremist attacks is quantifiably different to reporting on far-right attacks,” wrote Ben Moore of Signal AI.…

“I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many, many people,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a British court Thursday, speaking by video link from London’s Belmarsh Prison. Assange’s first hearing in the Westminster Magistrates Court about his potential extradition to the United States came just a day after another British court sentenced the 47-year old Australian to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail when he took refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London seven years ago. After Ecuador revoked Assanges’s asylum protections in April, British authorities arrested him and dragged him out of the embassy—provoking widespread condemnation—and…

A new report released Monday from Media Matters For America found that not a single day went by in the first four months of 2019 when the “hard news” arm of Fox News didn’t lie to its audience.  Fox has long assured viewers and advertisers that the network’s news and opinion wings are fundamentally different. But, as Media Matters president Angelo Carusone explained in a statement, that isn’t really based in facts. “Fox News likes to tout the ‘hard news’ side of its operation, setting up a false distinction between its right-wing prime-time hosts and its news anchors,” said Carusone. “The network pushes this fictional division as a defense against those who flag the propaganda,…

Warning signs that the U.S. economy could be barreling toward a recession quickly became alarm bells Wednesday after the Treasury bond yield curve—a key indicator that has preceded every major downturn over the past five decades—inverted for the first time since the Wall Street crash of 2007. As the Washington Post reported, “the yields on short-term U.S. bonds eclipsed those of long-term bonds” on Wednesday, a phenomenon that “suggests investors’ faith in the economy is faltering.” Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank, told the Post that “yield curves are all crying timber that a recession is almost a reality, and investors are tripping over themselves to get…

To celebrate Carolina Herrera’s presence at New York Fashion Week for the past four decades the luxury fashion house will air an intimate, never-seen-before conversation between Carolina Herrera and creative director Wes Gordon. Click Here: cd universidad catolica Launching on September 14, ‘The Conversation: Carolina Herrera and Wes Gordon’, is a four-part mini-documentary, where the two fashion designers discuss the past, present and future of fashion while sharing personal memories and anecdotes. Described as a “fun and witty toast to New York and the fashion industry,” the unrehearsed, unscripted mini-documentary was filmed in a single sitting at Herrera’s Manhattan residence in August under strict Covid-19 health and safety guidelines. Directed…

Twelve drivers were given a warning by the FIA stewards following a start line crash that took place on the first restart of Sunday’s Tuscan Grand Prix. Dany Kvyat, Nicholas Latifi, Kevin Magnussen, Alexander Albon, Lance Stroll, Daniel Ricciardo, Sergio Perez, Lando Norris, Esteban Ocon, George Russell, Antonio Giovinazzi and Carlos Sainz were all handed a formal admonition from the stewards for their involvement in the truncated rolling start. “The Stewards conclude that the root cause of this incident was the inconsistent application of throttle and brake, from the final corner along the pit straight, by the above drivers,” read a statement from the FIA. “The Stewards acknowledge the challenges…

Richard Ojeda (D), a West Virginia state senator and former Army paratrooper who led the state’s teachers’ strike earlier this year, plans to run for president in 2020. Ojeda released his first campaign ad overnight, and intends to make a formal announcement on Monday afternoon. Politico reported he has filed paperwork for a presidential campaign with the Federal Election Commission. The Democrat ran for Congress in the midterms, but lost his bid to represent West Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District to Republican Carol Miller. Ojeda was defeated by 12 percentage points in a district President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down…