North America | United States | Corruption

Former Congressional Candidate Admits Sending Death Threats To Herself

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A former Congressional candidate admitted to CBS13 that she sent herself fake death threats in the mail. Karen Davis is now facing federal charges for lying to investigators about two death threat letters she said she received during her failed 2014 campaign. “You know, everybody makes mistakes. I did,” she said. The first letter included the line, “A close up to your head or to your husband will be final. You make the decision not to run for Congress.” A second letter read, “If you don’t quit very soon, you won’t be warned. You won’t see it coming. Your family will
North America | United States | Corruption

Did NAACP president lie about her race? City investigates

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The City of Spokane announced Thursday it's investigating whether the president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP violated the city's code of ethics in her application to serve on the citizen police ombudsman commission. Rachel Dolezal serves as chair of the independent commission, in addition to her work as an adjunct faculty member at Eastern Washington University and president of the NAACP local chapter. On her application to serve on the commission, she identified herself as African-American. But public records, including Dolezal's own birth certificate, list her biological parents as
Europe | Germany | Corruption

Germany’s Merkel calls for global emissions trading system

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Saturday for the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS), the bloc's flagship policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, to become a global system. Thousands of power plants, factories and airlines in Europe have to surrender an allowance for every tonne of heat-trapping gas emitted. However, a surplus of allowances has depressed their price on the ETS and has made it cheaper to burn coal than to switch to greener fuels. "This instrument would of course be particularly effective if we could introduce it beyond Europe because then we'd have the s
North America | United States | Corruption

Pregnant women are now targets: The tragedy of Purvi Patel

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With such untrustworthy evidence, the prosecution was able to convict Patel of not only feticide, but neglect of a dependent– two seemingly contradictory crimes. Alongside the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Patel case signals a new era of reproductive injustices to come – in which women may fear seeking needed medical attention lest they be arrested, tried, and convinced to shockingly long sentences like Patel. Although the Purvi Patel case has been discussed extensively for its reproductive justice implications in the domestic and foreign press alike, what has been less promine
North America | United States | Corruption

Ridiculous: Congresswoman Claims Climate Change Will Turn Women Into Prostitutes

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On Wednesday, California Democrat Barbara Lee proposed a resolution in the House of Representatives that claims women will eventually be forced into prostitution in order to obtain life-sustaining food and water for their families. Lee introduced House Concurrent Resolution 29, warning that women will be forced into “transactional sex” to get enough food and clean water — all because global warming will create “conflict and instability” in the world. “Women will disproportionately face harmful impacts from climate change,” Lee’s resolution reads. It continues claiming, �
North America | United States | Corruption

Hillary Clinton wiped email server clean, refuses to turn it over

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has refused to turn her email server over to an independent third party and claims she has wiped the server clean, dealing a setback to the special investigative committee looking into the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, the probe said late Friday. Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said the whole House will have to decide what the next steps are in the push to pry information from Mrs. Clinton, but said she will likely have to appear and testify on her decision-making about her emails, setting up another dramatic showdown between the former first