Lewis Hamilton admits he is having a hard time wrapping his head around the idea that he could soon equal the outstanding 91-win record of the great Michael Schumacher. Hamilton – who started his career in F1 in 2007 with McLaren – collected his 90th Grand Prix win last weekend at Mugello, with Schumacher’s milestone potentially set to be beaten as soon as next week at Sochi. The Briton had already surpassed Schumacher’s tally of…
Burberry on Thursday took to the great outdoors for the first live fashion show of London Fashion Week that required sterling production prowess, planning and resources. Drones flying high above the trees recorded models navigating a forest path, opening with a girl dressed in a cotton and denim trench and thigh-high boots, closely followed by a suited trio – were they models or security? – wearing slick black and white tailoring. A show merging fashion…
Just hours after California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation eliminating cash bail, the bail bond industry filed a referendum that will ask voters whether to overturn the law. The measure Brown signed on Tuesday would make California the first state to eliminate cash bail in favor of a series of assessments that judge the likelihood that someone who has been arrested will return to court. ADVERTISEMENTIt had been hailed by advocates of criminal justice reform, who…
Sen. Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinTrump administration seeks to use global aid for nuclear projects Shelley Moore Capito wins Senate primary West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice wins GOP gubernatorial primary MORE (D-W.Va.) shoots an anti-ObamaCare lawsuit backed by his opponent in a new ad playing off his well-known 2010 spot shooting a climate change bill. The ad from Manchin, who is facing a competitive reelection race in a deep-red state, shows a shift in the politics…
As Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) put on a “genuinely unhinged” performance during Thursday’s Senate hearing with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford—constantly interrupting Democratic senators and repeatedly inserting self-serving rants between questioning—more than 50 Iowa-based and national groups representing hundreds of thousands of Americans sent a letter denouncing Grassley’s “failed leadership” and demanding that he immediately resign as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “You and your staff had knowledge of the allegation prior to it becoming…
A suspected bomb on Monday was found in the mailbox at the New York home of George Soros, the billionaire financier and philanthropist who has also become the boogeyman of right-wing conspiracy theorists and mainstream Republicans, leading police to detonate the suspicious package in a nearby forested area. While Soros was reportedly not home at the time, local police stated: “An employee of the residence opened the package, revealing what appeared to be an explosive…
As the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Congress face mass protests in Washington, D.C. against their attacks on healthcare, immigrants, women, and the poor—as well as well as their support for white supremacists and men accused of sexual assault—civil liberties advocates are speaking out against an “unconstitutional” National Park Service (NPS) proposal that would severely limit Americans’ ability to protest near the White House and on the National Mall. “While the park service may be…
In the face of a coordinated, corporate-funded assault on their very existence by President Donald Trump, Republicans at the federal and state level, and the right-wing Supreme Court, labor unions nationwide have mobilized massive numbers of struggling workers to turn out for Tuesday’s critical midterms with the goal of defeating anti-union candidates and electing politicians willing to fight for progressive policies that benefit the working class like Medicare for All, a higher minimum wage, and…
Nearly three-quarters of the American public and a historic number of Democratic lawmakers support Medicare for All, but the House Democratic leadership is considering using its newly won majority to impose a rule that would “recklessly betray” the grassroots forces that put them in power by making single-payer and other progressive priorities impossible to enact. “Equating support for middle-class families—with opposition to increasing their tax rates—is a conservative project, which Democrats have no business advancing.”…
The International Criminal Court announced Friday that it rejected a probe into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, including those committed by U.S. forces. The decision is “a shocking abandonment of the victims which will weaken the court’s already questionable credibility,” said Biraj Patnaik, South Asia director at Amnesty International. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda requested the investigation in 2017, a move which was praised by human rights organizations. At the time, Bensouda said…