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by Niko Boskovic | Jan 21, 2020 | Environment, Featured
MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina — A European Court decision could open the way for residents of the Bosnian city of Mostar to vote in municipal elections and finally close an illegal landfill poisoning the city. The European Court for Human Rights ruled Oct. 29...
by Mark Satter and Brian Johnson | Jan 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – Thousands attended a pro-gun rights rally on Virginia’s State Capitol grounds today amid a heightened security presence to speak out against gun control measures being considered by the state legislature. Protestors, including heavily armed...
by HyoJung Kim | Jan 18, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Eleven and 15 years old activists showed up at Women’s March with their mother and aunt, who were also youth activists in their high school years. “Historical trauma. It’s in our DNA and it transcends across generations,”...
by Silvia Martelli | Jan 17, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The United States and its Western allies will put additional pressure on the Venezuelan authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. “More actions are coming. Maduro certainly knows that we mean...
by Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | Jan 16, 2020 | Politics
Washington — Supreme Court justices appeared to struggle with whether or not the actions behind the 2013 Bridgegate scandal constituted a federal crime during oral arguments Tuesday. “I don’t see how this case works,” exclaimed Justice Stephen Breyer. ...
by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s plan to shift $7.2 billion from the Pentagon budget to pay for his planned wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is “playing politics with the nation’s defense,” the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday. “It is bad...
