Celebrities and members of Parliament released an open letter Saturday demanding that UK Prime Minister David Cameron stop exploiting the refugee crisis to drive the country into more disastrous war. “Already we have seen the killing of civilians and the exacerbation of a refugee crisis which is largely the product of wars in Syria, Iraq,…

WikiLeaks on Wednesday began releasing documents from one of former CIA chief John Brennan’s non-government email accounts, which he is said to have “used occasionally for several intelligence related projects.” Earlier this week an individual, claiming to be a teenager, alleged that he and two other people had hacked into Brennan’s AOL email account and…

In a resounding blow to the national education “reform” movement, voters in Jefferson County, Colorado on Tuesday overwhelmingly chose to recall three Koch-backed conservative school board members who, among other transgressions, last year suggested censoring U.S. history curriculum to promote patriotism. Ousted JeffCo board members Julie Williams, Ken Witt, and John Newkirk have been in…

Citing “new information” on the herbicide’s environmental toxicity, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday announced it will revoke its controversial approval of Dow’s Enlist Duo after determining that its combination of chemicals may be significantly more harmful than initially believed. “With this action, EPA confirms the toxic nature of this lethal cocktail of…

Two prominent women’s rights groups are blasting the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for featuring leading party figures at an event with a Democratic mayoral candidate in Omaha, Neb., who opposes abortion. Deputy Chairman Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.) and Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the…

Amid warnings that “new war will not increase the prospects of peace,” the UK carried out its first airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, just hours after members of Parliament voted to expand the use of military force in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS). Four Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter jets were seen taking…

Ahead of NXT TakeOver 31 going on the air tonight, WWE shared a first look at its new Capitol Wrestling Center: The Capitol Wrestling Center, which is named after the Capitol Wrestling Corporation that Jess McMahon founded in 1953, is the name for the newly remodeled television set at the WWE Performance Center. NXT is…

The Federal Reserve’s announcement on Wednesday that it would raise interest rates 0.25 percent was met with strong criticism on Tuesday with Sen. Bernie Sanders blasting the decision as “bad news for working families” and the country’s “disappearing middle class.” The rate hike is the first since the 2007 financial crash, and economists have long-warned…

Despite President Barack Obama’s claims of climate leadership, the U.S. oil industry is booming under his watch. Bloomberg Business journalist Jennifer Dlouhy reported on Tuesday that “U.S. oil production has surged 82 percent to near-record levels in the past seven years and natural gas is up by nearly one-quarter.” The domestic fracking surge—a pillar of…

The weight of plastic waste clogging the world’s oceans threatens to exceed all fish by 2050 if the world’s seemingly insatiable appetite for the material continues at the current explosive rate, warned a new report presented on Tuesday. In fact, according to the study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation along with the World Economic Forum,…