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Millions of people in Texas were plunged into freezing cold and darkness as a major winter storm overwhelmed the stateâs power grid. More than 12 million Texans face water disruptions and have been ordered to boil tap water for safe consumption, and ...[Read more]
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The decline is more pronounced in Black and Latinx communities, which have been hit harder by the pandemic. ...[Read more]
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A hunt was taking place on Thursday morning for Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, who appears to have been photographed lining up for a flight to the sunny Mexican tourist resort of Cancun as millions of his constituents endure deadly power out ...[Read more]
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At a time when the Lone Star State is being battered by severe winter weather, record cold and widespread power outages, Tim Boyd â the far-right Republican mayor of Colorado City, Texas â lambasted residents of his city for complaining about be ...[Read more]
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Rush Limbaugh, a pioneer in popularizing right-wing talk radio, has died at the age of 70 after a months-long battle with cancer. ...[Read more]
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Twenty-six percent in a survey of 2,200 people conducted in 2012 answered that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and fewer than half correctly answered a question about human origins. ...[Read more]
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In the wake of a spike of violent attacks against Asian and Asian-American residents, many of them elderly, outraged citizens from all different backgrounds in U.S. cities Oakland and San Francisco have joined in solidarity over the past weekend.
In San ...[Read more]
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Americans' support for the formation of a third political party has reached 62%, a 5-point uptick since last fall and an all-time high in Gallup's polling. Likewise, just 33% of Americans think the nation's two parties are adequately representing the inte ...[Read more]
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that the US Congress will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump in the wanin ...[Read more]
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As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America's new president and his foreign policy, after successive U.S. administrations have delivered unexpected and damaging shocks to the wo ...[Read more]
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New footage aired at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump has flooded the U.S. once again with images of the violent mob that stormed the Capitol last month, reigniting our horror and attempt as a nation to make sense of the event.
What we witnessed was ...[Read more]
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