Isis have claimed responsibility for the attack on Monday, but investigators have not yet uncovered any links AP There is something infinitely naive in our pursuit of the identity of those behind the massacres which Isis is committing in Europe. Yes, we need to know the names. Sure, we need to know…

For more than a century, the state of Florida has presided over one of American history’s single most effective and enduring efforts to disenfranchise voters. By far the most populous of the three states that strip lifelong voting rights from people with felony convictions, Florida is home to some…

The Department of the Interior finalized a rule Monday aimed at protecting waterways from coal mining pollution. It’s a rule the administration has been working on for nearly all of President Barack Obama’s time in office — and it’s likely to be one of the first regulation to come under fire when…

Last Thursday, attorneys general in 20 states sued six generic drug makers for conspiring to increase prices on generic medications to boost profits. The companies named in the lawsuit are Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc., Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc., Citron Pharma LLC, Mayne Pharma Inc., Mylan…

I was working on a holiday story for the Daily News last night. It was all about how you can de-stress during the holidays. I was going to tell you to watch less news, love on your family and friends, go see "Fences" and "Hidden Figures," and do some good in the lives of the people around you. Then,…

At a speech given to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he intends to work with President-elect Donald Trump to approve the northern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. The speech comes as Trump revealed in a recent interview with Fox News that one of…

The US "got it wrong" about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, the CIA analyst who interrogated the former dictator has said. John Nixon had numerous conversations with the deposed leader and now says that America was critically mistaken about their intervention Iraq in a number of ways. In particular, he…

(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc’s secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according to legal documents and people briefed on closed court hearings.…

Chile’s Communist Party Rejects Intervention in Venezuela Nigeria: Early Tally Shows Buhari in Lead, Opposition Rejects 86% Votes For New Constitution in Cuba US VP Pence Leads Lima Group, Pushes for More Severe Blockade Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention for Peaceful Solution Campaign…

Donald Trump of the cover of a magazine in China.Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images As Donald Trump fills his cabinet, what have we learned about the likely direction and impact of his administration’s economic policy? To be sure, enormous uncertainties remain. As in many other areas,…

Activists Joe Rose, Gary Quaderer, and Paul DeMain, all of Ojibwe descent, tie eagle feathers to a staff erected at the entrance of the Harvest Education Learning Project Camp in Wisconsin. Music, food, and ceremony are part of the teaching process at the camp. Photo courtesy of Paul Demain. This…

A man looks at his cell phone as he walks on the street in downtown Madrid, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. (AP/Francisco Seco) (REPORT) — The European Union’s highest court on Wednesday issued a landmark ruling against mass surveillance in a judgment that challenges key portions of the U.K.’s so-called…

A Montana lawmaker tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be secretary of the interior committed travel fraud when he was a member of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6, according to three former unit leaders and a military consultant. In announcing the nomination of Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, a retired…

Blank U.S. Treasury checks are seen on a roll at the Philadelphia Financial Center. Millions of older Americans are having their federal benefits garnished to repay student loan debt. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press) To recoup student-loan debt, the government is leaving people who rely on Social…

Authorities say Crawford carried out extensive research on radiation dispersal devices, and scouted potential targets including a local mosque.Photograph: Skip Dickstein/AP A self-proclaimed white supremacist convicted on charges he planned to use a “death ray” to kill Muslims and Barack Obama was…

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Left, Flynn at Trump Tower earlier this month; Right, Heinz-Christian Strache being filmed for an interview following Austria's presidential election. Left, by Drew Angerer, right, by Alex Domanski, both from Getty Images. While Trump allies and assorted hangers-on reject the notion that they ran a…

Sherrel Johnson, mother of 17-year-old James Brissette, who was killed by New Orleans police officers on the Danziger Bridge six days after Hurricane Katrina. Gerald Herbert/AP New Orleans has agreed to pay $13.3 million to settle lawsuits over injuries and deaths at the hands of police in the weeks…

Buy Photo Darnell Earley (Photo11: Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press) Buy Photo Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette brought more criminal charges Tuesday in the ongoing Flint drinking water investigation. The newly charged defendants include: -- He was the state-appointed emergency manager…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Three years and three months later, a massive oil spill in North Dakota still isn't fully cleaned up. The company responsible hasn't even set a date for completion. Though crews have been working around the clock to deal with the Tesoro Corp. pipeline break, which happened in…

This post has been updated.* For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their children being poisoned? To find out, all it takes is a prick of the…

Radiologist Brandon Crum and former coal miner Mackie Branham, 39, view an X-ray of Branham's diseased lung at Crum's black lung clinic in Coal Run Village, Ky. Howard Berkes/NPR Across Appalachia, coal miners are suffering from the most serious form of the deadly mining disease black lung in…

Mark Peterson/Redux Pictures for Politico Magazine How Albuquerque figured out how to really help its homeless population. And save money in the process. Colin Woodard is a Politico Magazine contributing editor, the author of five books including American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle…

If you’ve been wondering which environmental protections the incoming administration will target and how exactly they’ll try to undo them, take a look at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s legislative agenda , “Free to Prosper.” Just a few months ago, this radical plan to dismantle environmental…

I had chosen a Mr. Donut café in San Salvador to meet Raúl. An agent in El Salvador’s burgeoning call-center industry, Raúl had been a member of the so-called 1.5 Generation of immigrants who were born abroad but spent their formative years in the United States, before he was deported. The donut…

‘In this age of inequality, none of the symptoms of our malaise can be ignored without consequence.’Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters Where you live in America predicts not just how long you’ll live but also how you’ll die . The “ Black Lung mountains” run along the border of West Virginia and…

Leaked Audio: 'Election Night Changed Everything,' Dakota Access Pipeline 'Is Going Through' DeSmogBlog Dec. 15, 2016 03:44PM EST By Steve Horn Shaun King, a writer for the New York Daily News, has uploaded what appears to be a recorded audio file of Energy Transfer Partners' Chief Operating Officer…

Obama defended the CIA after its operatives surreptitiously spied on the emails and work product of the Senate’s lead investigator, Daniel Jones.Photograph: Pix via ZU/Rex/Shutterstock Barack Obama has agreed to preserve the Senate’s landmark investigation into the CIA’s use of torture after 9/11,…

President-elect Donald Trump named David M. Friedman as ambassador to Israel on Thursday — proving that the Israel-Palestinian peace process is basically screwed for the next four years. Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer and previously a Trump campaign adviser on Jewish world issues, has zero diplomatic…

Donald Trump’s reaction to news that some U.S. intelligence agencies believe Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election on his behalf was to fire back: “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.” He might have had a point — were it not for the fact…

Getty Images Residents of Corpus Christi, TX, are being advised by local officials to avoid drinking the city's tap water after an incident at a nearby industrial site which may have resulted in a serious contamination of the water supply. In an emergency notice posted on late Wednesday evening,…

Oil Still, Trump’s election reduces chances that the Dakota Access pipeline will be permanently blocked. DC Dispatch Dec. 14, 2016 From the print edition Like Tweet Email Print Subscribe Donate Now The Army made a stunning admission earlier this month when it announced its decision to require a…

Protesters march during a protest, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in Chicago, for 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was fatally shot and killed by police in October 2014. Paul Beaty/AP George Joseph Dec 14, 2016 Documents from Chicago's Cook County Sheriff’s Office reveal the undercover techniques law…

So there was Samantha Power doing her “shame” bit in the UN. “Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under your skin, that just creeps you out a little bit?”, America’s ambassador to the UN asked the Russians and Syrians and Iranians. She spoke of Halabja,…

Missing worker Rina’’s mother still waits for her daughter in front of the barricade. Taslima Akhter This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute . On the morning of Oct. 13, Taslima Aktar arrived at the gates of a Bangladeshi factory called Windy…

Donald Trump. Despite having Kanye West in his corner, Donald Trump is still having difficulty finding musicians to play at his inauguration. According to two talent bookers who spoke anonymously to the Wrap , Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee offered to reward them with ambassador positions…

The 17 people filling President-elect Donald Trump ’s Cabinet and similar positions earn more money than a third of households in America combined, Quartz reported Thursday . The amount of wealth possessed by the 17 picks, at least $9.5 billion, is greater than the 43 million least wealthy…

By Joe Catron As completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline remains on standby after the Army Corps of Engineers announced on Dec. 5 that it would not authorize the development company to drill under the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, similar projects continue…