Only 50% of Americans feel better off financially than they did at the start of Barack Obama’s presidency eight years ago, according to a Jan. 28 Gallup survey. The dissatisfaction should give plenty of ammunition to whichever candidate emerges victorious from the impending Republican primaries.
Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and long-shot candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, may only be polling at about 3%, but with only a few days left before the Iowa caucuses, his campaign is not giving up. Today (Jan. 27), he released a new campaign ad, which is a bonkers cover of Adele’s “Hello.”
Following last week’s epic blizzard across the US east coast, only a few people showed up to work on the floor of the nation’s Senate–and all of them were women.
As anticipated, Denmark’s lawmakers passed today (Jan. 26) a controversial immigration bill that will require refugees entering the country to hand over their valuable assets as compensation for their upkeep—a move meant to deter asylum seekers from coming to the Nordic country otherwise known for its progressive values.
Yet again, for the third US presidential election cycle in a row, rumor has it that Michael Bloomberg is about to throw his hat in the ring. The former New York mayor and business mogul ”has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year’s presidential race,” the New York Times reported this weekend (Jan. 23).
An announcement from the UK prime minister’s office telling migrants that they have to pass an English language test contained a very beginner mistake:
A lot of US veterans are not happy with Sarah Palin.
Violent crimes, including murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery slightly increased in the United States in the first half of 2015, show preliminary statistics from the FBI. The uptick comes after a two-year decline, but experts say there is no evidence of a crime wave.
A controversial bill that would have made it much harder for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to come to the United States failed to advance in the Senate today (Jan. 20), despite support from Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. The bill —which cleared the House of Representatives with bipartisan support—would have added onerous security requirements to what is already a long and complicated vetting process.
Members of the UK parliament think Donald Trump is “dangerous,” a “fool,” and a “buffoon,” with “bonkers” policy ideas.
Russia’s parliament is considering a bill that would ban some couples from kissing or holding hands.
After Denmark sparked international controversy for proposing a bill that would require refugees to hand over their valuables, it turns out that Switzerland had already introduced the practice, according to local media.
A jury in Washington state is hearing the final arguments today (Jan. 14) in a huge case for the environmental movement. Five activists have been charged with criminal trespassing for blocking a train full of crude oil.
A children’s group called Freedom Kids performed at a rally for the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination last night (Jan. 13), in Pensacola, Florida. The performance is truly one of a kind, and no words can do it justice:
Following a tense evening and flurry of diplomacy, Iran has released the 10 US sailors who were on two US Navy boats that drifted into the country’s territorial waters yesterday (Jan. 12) and were detained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC).
Update 1:30am ET, Jan.13
The founder of the company that would later become Koch Industries, also the father of politically-involved tycoons Charles and David Koch, once helped to build an oil refinery for the Third Reich, according to a new book.
Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpin, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been captured, Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto announced via social media.
Maine governor Paul LePage is in hot water for making racially-charged comments about the heroin crisis in his state during a town hall meeting on Wednesday (Jan. 6). Drugs are coming into Maine from the outside, he said, by dealers with names like “D-Money,” and “Smoothie”:
Warning: This post contains graphic images. They come from a Facebook page run by activists.
Escalating a diplomatic row between the two countries, Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of bombing its embassy in Yemen’s capital during its airstrike campaign against the Houthi rebels. But local residents and an Associated Press reporter on the ground say that while dozens of new airstrikes fell on Sanaa today (Jan. 7), there is no visible damage to the embassy’s building.
The chief justice of Alabama’s state supreme court has said that because officials who issue marriage licenses were “confused” about higher court rulings on the issue, he has ordered them to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples altogether.
A United States where Uber, ride-sharing and electric cars rule the roads is still a distant dream, suggest the latest car sales data.
Experts say they have established the world’s first known case of a cyber attack on a power grid, which cut power to more than 600,000 homes in Ukraine in late December. US intelligence agencies and cyber security experts are looking to Russia as the likely source of the attack.
