In November 2019, a longtime US columnist with Elle magazine filed a defamation lawsuit against US President Donald Trump for “false” remarks and denials of claims in her memoir that she had been raped by Trump in a New York City store in the 1990s. The president has been required […]
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MOSCOW(Sputnik) – New York Attorney General’s Office is moving to empanel a grand jury as part of the investigation into the death of black man Daniel Prude, which has sparked major protests in Rochester, Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. Prude’s family is calling for the police officers […]
SushiSwap, the automated market maker aiming to unseat market leader Uniswap, has moved up its launch by five days. Because of SushiSwap, total value in assets locked on Uniswap have gone up by just under $1.5 billion since the SushiSwap contract went into effect at block 10750000 on August 28, […]
HONG KONG—Students, teachers, parents, and others are staging protests in Inner Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region in northern China, by surrounding police stations and gathering outside schools. Thousands are congregating in rare displays of open defiance of governmental orders. These demonstrations were sparked by the Chinese government’s directive issued in the […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s main opposition party Congress is grappling with an internal crisis in view of rising demand for a complete overhaul of leadership and to revive and restructure the group. The party’s last full-time chief Rahul Gandhi resigned following the organisation’s debacle in the 2019 parliamentary elections. In […]
The James Webb Space Telescope — a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — has successfully completed a critical pre-flight milestone and test that paves the way for continued final testing of the most complex telescope ever built. At present, James Webb […]
Facebook has tried its hardest to avoid taking action against posts from President Trump that broke its own rules. But on Wednesday, that long-running effort finally ran aground against a rambling diatribe from the president about children and the coronavirus. It’s a shift that could have an enormous impact on […]
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change met in Incheon, South Korea in October 2018. The pandemic has forced scientists around the world to write the latest U.N. climate report without meeting in person. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107747/27/1077472714_0:19:1678:963_1200x675_80_0_0_10a3590384f2072ebe7108e711f91ebd.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202008031080042736-father-son-duo-replicates-sexiest-asian-hrithik-roshans-dance-moves-to-perfection—video/ In 2019, the UK-based newspaper Eastern Eye in its 16th edition of the world famous list had named Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan as the “Sexiest Asian Man” in the world. A video of a father and son dancing to a popular song by […]
First Minneapolis, now Seattle. Seattle City Council on Friday moved to abolish the entire police department and replace it with a Marxist “civilian led Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention.” In the proposed legislation, the city council asserted that the Seattle Police Department perpetuates “racism and violence” and upholds […]
Venezuela Moves Toward Elections: US Seeks To Undermine Them July 28, 2020 Venezuela Moves Toward Elections: US Seeks To Undermine Them2020-07-282020-07-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/02/campvenezuela-e1550673625794.jpg200px200px NOTE: Venezuela will be holding its legislative elections on December 6, 2020. The US government and their puppet, Juan Guaido, are doing all they can to undermine the election. […]
The U.S. Air Force concerned about the capability of its equipment to withstand the effects of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. EMPs are intense bursts of electromagnetic energy which can result from a high-altitude nuclear explosion. In the event of war, such blasts could be used to inflict damage on […]
Grayscale Investments has announced that its digital asset funds Bitcoin Cash Trust and Litecoin Trust have cleared a regulatory hurdle in their march to begin being quoted on over-the-counter markets. Nikhilesh De contributed reporting Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest […]
Missouri’s Attorney General is seeking to dismiss felony gun charges brought against a husband and wife who aimed firearms at protesters outside their St. Louis mansion, insisting the couple had a right to defend their home. State AG Eric Schmitt took to Twitter on Monday night with a video statement […]
The report comes as the United States is seeing a record resurgence of COVID-19 coronavirus cases, with a majority of US states registering unprecedented numbers of daily infections this month. US House Democrats passed a relief bill in late May, but the Republican-controlled Senate has yet to approve the package. […]
Democratic officials angry at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s handling of surging coronavirus numbers in the state this week had one lackluster place to voice their frustrations about the rapidly escalating public health crisis killing their constituents: a Zoom press conference. “While some states followed the advice of public health experts, […]
It has come to a face-off between the National Guard and protesters blocking the road to Mount Rushmore, which is set to host US President Donald Trump’s rally, after they refused to back down. Arrests have been reported. With several hours left until Trump’s ‘Salute America’ event to mark Independence […]
There may finally be an end in sight. Two weeks after Russia’s home-grown Covid-19 vaccine was administered to a group of volunteers, there have been no side-effects, and it seems mass immunization may be just around the corner. “Volunteers of the first group…feel good and have no complaints about their […]
Cuba will begin easing its pandemic lockdown in Havana on Friday, while most of the rest of the country will move to phase two of a three-phase process towards normalization. The capital’s 2.2 million residents will be able to move around on public and private transport, go to the beach […]
Pro-Israel Racist Group ADL Moves To Co-Opt Black Lives Matter By Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada. July 1, 2020 Pro-Israel Racist Group ADL Moves To Co-Opt Black Lives Matter2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/israeli-soldiers-with-blindfolded-palestinian-from-zuma-press.-e1593619684543.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Anti-Defamation League tries to portray itself as an ally of Black Lives Matter while shielding Israel from criticism for […]
The Swiss government is encouraging blockchain startups to set up shop with new laws that lower legal barriers to such businesses while leaving favorable tax laws untouched. The National Council, Switzerland’s equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives, unanimously passed a legislative package changing about a dozen financial laws on […]
Fresh from one legal defeat, the Trump family is taking another stab at halting publication of presidential niece Mary Trump’s upcoming tell-all. Lawyers acting on behalf of President Donald Trump’s brother, Robert—who was in an intensive-care unit just days ago—refiled for a temporary restraining order against the Too Much and […]
Legislation to make the District of Columbia a state is poised to pass the House on Friday, a major advance from the last time the measure came before Congress 27 years ago and 40 percent of Democrats joined with all but one Republican to defeat D.C. statehood. After decades of […]
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen is trying to stop Canadian bitcoin miner DMG Blockchain from plugging its mining rigs into the American power grid. In a letter published Thursday, the nonprofit implored the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to scrutinize, if not outright reject, DMG Blockchain’s bid to export U.S. […]