Swedish boxing champion Mikaela Lauren has refused to defend her super welterweight world title unless organizers of her next bout dispense with a sexist tradition: half-naked women parading signs of the fight’s score between rounds.
Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people, including more than 50 teenagers, in a day-long racist rampage in 2011. Norway’s lenient incarceration policies have allowed Breivik to serve his 21-year prison term in a three-room cell, complete with a television, a workout room, and a Playstation console.
If there is any New York area where many voters fall into Donald Trump’s tax bracket, it would be the city’s Upper East Side. But on the afternoon of primary day on April 19, more voters appeared to favor New York’s former senator, Hillary Clinton—even if they showed a surprising affinity for socialist Bernie Sanders.
“Hillary, Hillary,” chanted a crowd of women, and some men, in a chandeliered ballroom at the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan as Hillary Clinton’s team of powerhouse women took the stage April 18. The presidential candidate was joined by New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand, former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America Cecile Richards, the city’s First Lady Chirlane McCray, among others.
If you’ve done any dodgy dealings with a Panamanian law firm, you might want to consider coming clean: US tax officials are trying to figure out how to use the Panama Papers in their investigations, and have advised Americans to disclose their offshore accounts before they are discovered by the government.
When Erica was a young child, she had a hard time coping with the absence of her father. Even as a five-year-old, she would violently act out.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders put all niceties aside from the first minutes of the CNN Democratic debate in Brooklyn on Thursday (April 14), as they battled for New York votes ahead of the state’s primary.
A single non-conformist senator broke Democratic party ranks today (Apr. 13), endorsing Bernie Sanders for president instead of Hillary Clinton. In an op-ed for The New York Times, the junior senator from Oregon Jeff Merkley writes that Sanders is a “determined leader in taking on the concentration of campaign cash from the mega-wealthy that is corrupting the vision of opportunity embedded in our Constitution.”
Currently, only seven out of 23 cabinet-ranked positions in the US government are occupied by women. Hillary Clinton wants to change that.
Depending on your political views, Hillary Clinton proved recently that she either was out-of-touch with the common commuter, or human like the rest of us, by taking five (!) excruciating swipes with her MetroCard to enter the New York City subway last week.
The New York state senate is poised to eliminate New Yorkers’ so-called “tampon tax.”
In his home state’s upcoming primary, Donald Trump will not have the votes of two of his biggest supporters—his own children. The Republican frontrunner has an overwhelming lead in New York polls, but he admitted that neither his daughter Ivanka nor son Eric had registered to vote in the primary in time.
Donald Trump has cleared his schedule for the coming days, opting to stay in New York instead of attending events in Colorado and California. His campaign announced the change of plans earlier today, following a massive yet strangely lackluster rally in Bethpage, Long Island on Wednesday night (April 6).
Thousands lined up in the cold in Bethpage, Long Island, last night (April 6) to welcome Donald Trump home to New York.
Iceland is in the midst of a political upheaval. On April 3, the Panama Papers, a trove of leaked documents that expose how many world leaders hide their wealth, revealed that the country’s prime minister and his wife had a secret offshore company. The next day, thousands of Icelanders joined the island’s biggest protest in years, pressuring Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson to step down.
Donald Trump burst on the scene as a presidential candidate last summer with his call to stop illegal immigration by building a border wall with Mexico, and to have Mexico pay for it. In a memo to the Washington Post, the Republican frontrunner finally disclosed how he would force the US neighbor to pony up the money.
Poland has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe, allowing for the procedure only in extreme cases such as rape or when the fetus is terminally ill–and a new legislation proposal wants to make the law even harsher, banning abortion completely. After the country’s prime minister, Beata Szydlo, said last week that she supports such a ban, thousands of people took to the streets to protest.
In three out of five of the largest school districts in the US, security staff outnumber the counselors, sometimes by a 3:1 ratio, according to data gathered by the education website The 74.
One of contemporary architecture’s biggest stars, the Iraqi-born, London-based Zaha Hadid, died in Miami of a heart attack today, Mar. 31. She was 65.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump struggled to describe his position on abortion today (March 30), saying at an MSNBC town hall that women should be punished for the procedure if it became illegal once again in the United States.
“For too long we’ve viewed drug addiction through the lens of criminal justice,” US president Barack Obama said at an anti-drug abuse summit Atlanta yesterday (March 29). “The most important thing to do is reduce demand. And the only way to do that is to provide treatment—to see it as a public health problem and not a criminal problem.”
In preparation for what will surely be a heated Republican convention, Donald Trump has hired an experienced political operative to help wrangle GOP delegates: Paul Manafort, a strategist with three decades of Republican conventions under his belt, who has also worked for some unsavory international clients.
The entire world is following the US election—including the country’s sworn enemies. Al-Masra, an Al-Qaeda-linked newspaper recently published a 1,700 word report on the US elections, discussing the anti-Muslim rhetoric of Donald Trump in particular.
Bernie Sanders swept the vote in Saturday’s (March 26) Democratic caucuses, touting the wins as “momentum” for his trailing campaign. But the path for Sanders to win the nomination against Hillary Clinton remains a very tough one.
