News by subject: POL

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread at an alarming pace, infecting millions and bringing economic activity to a near-standstill, as countries impose tight restrictions on movement to contain the spread of the virus.  How can the global economy recover...

Hamline University has released a civility statement that serves as a guide for conversation and debate among the campus community....

As we collectively move into a period of electoral uncertainty, OPEIU reaffirms its commitment to mobilizing its members to safeguard our democratic institutions from anti-worker attacks by President Trump and his allies. For more than a year, Trump...

Blanca for accountability and transparency of governments! Victorville City Council member Blanca Gomez has publicly announced she intends to run for a seat in the US Congress in 2022. Blanca is a loyal representative of the people. Gomez said her...

DaVita Kidney Care, a leading provider of kidney care services in the United States, issued the following statement: "We are grateful that Californians voted down Proposition 23, a harmful ballot measure that could have jeopardized access to...

PolicyEngage (www.policyengage.com), a St. Louis-based software company, has launched a relationship management platform ? the first of its kind ? to connect legislative and regulatory tracking, advocate and donor engagement and media monitoring....

Unemployment reached an all-time high during April 2020. Some of the hardest hit states include Nevada, Rhode Island, New York and Hawaii. Q Link Wireless serves these states and 29 others with: 3 Gigs of high-speed data UNLIMITED talk and text FREE...

Collective Liberty today announced its deepening relationship with agencies in the State of Texas with renewed funding for Collective Liberty's anti-trafficking solutions leveraging data and technology to empower increased prosecutions of...

In recent years, there has been IRS increasing focus on the "tax gap," or the difference between the amount estimated to be due in taxes each year and the amount actually paid. The alarming news for non-compliant taxpayers is that recent increased...

Today, the Yes on Prop 24 campaign announced strong support from leading privacy experts, including: Marc Rotenberg, Founder and former President of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); Shoshana Zuboff, award-winning author  of "The Age of...

The Wuga Web-App released their cure to heated discussions around politics. Wuga is a test designed to tell you where you stand on Economic, Diplomatic, Civil, and Social issues. It was inspired by the Political Coordinates test, but Wuga says they...

Anonymous street artist using the persona DBAR (dee-bar) aka don't be a robot, flies an eight story work of art over Los Angeles depicting "the Hollywood sign" reading HYPOCRITES. The work titled "The HYPOCRITES sign" is a statement against...

The stock market says the odds for the outcome in the 2020 presidential election have shifted dramatically in the past week. A few weeks ago, the Socionomics Institute reported that the stock market had been trading in a range in which 87% of...

On August 15, 2020, the Convention of the American Independent Party (AIP), third largest in California with more than 616 thousand registrants, nominated 55 Presidential electors pledged to Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra for President, and Kanye...

A report from China Daily: The 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a news conference to introduce the guiding principles of its fifth plenary session on Friday. The first-ever news conference for the CPC Central Committee...

Representatives Ami Bera, MD (CA-7) and Larry Bucshon, MD (IN-8), along with  Representatives Brendan Boyle (PA-2); Raul Ruiz, MD (CA-36); Abby Finkenauer (IA-1); George Holding (NC-2); Phil Roe, MD (TN-1); and Roger Marshall, MD (KS-1); introduced...

Veteran owned CBD company, Patriot Supreme, is pleased to announce the launch of its upcoming CBD Gummies Reverse Black Friday Sale from November 1-27, 2020. With a mission to support veterans, military members, first responders and frontline...

During yesterday's legislative session, S1957 and A3756 received 100% support from the New Jersey State Senate and General Assembly.  The Bill establishes a permanent new source of funding of up to $1.5 million for the New Jersey Manufacturing...

National Press Club leaders denounced an attempt by the Trump administration to take away the independence of news outlets such as the Voice of America. Michael Pack, the chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VoA, Radio Free...

Rolling Stone and Yappa World Inc are proud to announce Useful Idiots Live, a virtual live event series using Rolling Stone's political podcast featuring Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper, and supercharging it with the Yappa commenting tool to encourage...

Khaled Salem, who is running for the U.S. Senate against four-term incumbent Chuck Schumer in 2022, today announced that, if elected, he will propose a federal Law to stop personal attacks between candidates running for office. Khaled believes the...

The death rate of COVID-19 is roughly 2.5% of infected people, and if all 330 million Americans eventually become infected that equates to over 8 million American deaths.  "This is a COVID-19 holocaust and entirely unacceptable," says Jeff "JP"...

Leadership experts from around the world will gather live and online 5 ? 9 November for the International Leadership Association's (ILA's) virtual global conference, Leading at the Edge. Global leaders and featured speakers will meaningfully address...

Today, the Yes on Prop 24 campaign announced strong support from Asian/Pacific Islander (API) leaders, including: Andrew Yang, former Presidential Candidate, Entrepreneur, and founder of Humanity Forward; Betty Yee, California State Controller; and...

The Impact Network conducted a national survey of registered African American voters about their views and feelings toward the presidential candidates (President Trump and Former Vice President Biden) in the 2020 election. The poll was fielded by...

The District 5 precinct of San Francisco has always been a diverse ? and historically significant ? part of the city. It's often had its share of challenges, as well, particularly due to the ongoing housing crisis that District 5 SF, as well as the...

With the polls currently reporting an overwhelming majority of Americans who plan to vote (currently Biden at 51% compared to Trump's 40%), MyCustomCandy owner Sarah Hannington expected to see a large demand for her Biden-themed custom...

MasterBot has created TrumpBot, a voice chat application that tries to impersonate Donald Trump for entertainment purposes. TrumpBot was released today, in view of the upcoming elections. TrumpBot uses Machine Learning to mimic the president of the...

Today U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD), Joe Manchin III (D-WV), U.S. Representatives Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Jackie Walorski (R-IN-02) sent a bipartisan letter signed by 35 Members of Congress to Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Department of...

Anticipating a larger-than-ever wave of students transferring across higher education institutions due to COVID-19 and the economic recession, today a diverse group of 25 policy, advocacy, research and institutional membership organizations issued a...

From Africa to the USA via Europe where he spent twelve years studying in Italy and working in Germany, Dr. Zekeh Gbotokuma has experienced many years of exclusion and socio-political alienation. As a naturalized citizen of the USA, he has used his...

WNC Executive Vice President Michael Gaber, acting as a trustee of the National Association of Home Builders, announced today the organization's official endorsement of the 2020 re-election campaign of U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (CA-30)....

Family Research Council applauded the U.S. Senate vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....

Today The Economist announced that its US-election focused podcast "Checks and Balance" will continue and become a permanent programme after the US election on November 3rd.  ...

New Light Technologies Inc. (NLT), a leading provider of cloud, cybersecurity, software development, data analytics, geospatial, and scientific consulting services, and Voyager Search, the leading provider of enterprise data search, discovery, and...

Congressional candidate Dan Rodimer has shattered campaign fundraising records in Nevada by bringing in over twenty-seven thousand individual donors to take on Rep. Susie Lee (NV-3) in Nevada's third district. His recent fundraising record surpassed...

In response to President Trump's baseless claims about physicians miscounting deaths due to COVID-19, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released the following statement:...

FactPipe, an innovator in the field of internet content accuracy, has released a BETA version of its Chrome extension, (available in the Chrome webstore under "FactPipe"), to rate and view the accuracy of news articles, tweets and journalists. The...

In an election season where high turnout is expected, while in the middle of a global pandemic, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. legal experts have provided guidance to help employers stay aware of their obligations and employees understand...

#MaskUpMKE, in conjunction with Rebel Reform announced its latest effort dubbed #MaskUp2Vote.  As a consequence of COVID -19, the new effort underscores the importance of voting in this year's election, emphasizing voting safely by wearing a face...

Viral Blockers, Inc. a leading US supplier of sneeze guards, acrylic cubicle extenders and custom acrylic partitions provides custom sneeze guards to Belmont University- the university hosting the final presidential debate....

Founded in 2005, VMFP is dedicated to ensuring that the rights and needs of veterans, active-duty service members (including national guard, coast guard, and reservists), and their families are understood by the American public, endorsed by our...

District 5 candidate for Supervisor Vallie Brown has pledged to work to expand renter protections if elected to the office this November. Having decades of experience serving the people of District 5, Vallie Brown has proved time and time again that...

Vallie Brown is a leader who brings communities together, which is a critical part of her Covid-19 recovery plan. The health and economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on District 5 have been significant and require an aggressive community-based...

Vallie Brown's history with evictions and tenant's rights has made her a strong Pro-Tenant advocate. Her many years of experience and her empathy for those struggling to pay rent right now, have made her a strong supporter of tenants' rights. She's...

Vallie Brown is fighting for tenants' rights and housing security, with policies based on her personal experiences as both a tenant and a property owner. Learning from the past has strengthened her conviction as an advocate for tenants and become...

Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) has launched a national ad campaign to Keep Immigration Paused so that the American economy can recover from the hit it has taken during the pandemic. No matter who wins the election, we need to keep...

Consumers have had the right to shop around when buying contact lenses courtesy of the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2003. Since that time, compliance within the optometry industry...

David Eisner, CEO of Convergence, today hailed the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress for showing "courage, leadership and productivity" in the final report it made public last week, on October 14. Convergence is the national...

Arizona voters benefit from a well-established mail ballot option, but voters still need to keep in mind key deadlines as November 3rd approaches, one of the nation's leading experts on elections recently told the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections...