'The View': Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro Shames Ted Cruz for Being "A Slave to The Gun Lobby"
thewrap.comSears store closings 2022: Hometown shops holding liquidation sales
axios.com...Dozens of Sears Hometown stores are closing and holding liquidation sales, according to Facebook posts from the shuttering locations.Why it matters: Sears and Kmart have closed thousands of stores and cut around 250,000 jobs over the last 17 years.The two iconic retailers were owned by Sears... ...Check out our Store Closing Liquidation event in-store at select locations only through 6/27," the Sears Hometown store in Kilmarnock, Virginia, posted to its Facebook page."Unfortunately we must announce the closing of our Sears Hometown Store....
Trump's bid to align the GOP with the far right abroad is working
msnbc.com > opinion > opinion...But although supporters of the American right have touted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his party as an aspirational political model for some time, the decision to hold a major gathering of powerful American conservative political players in a country with Hungary's record of... ...As Hungary expert Kim Lane Scheppele writes, Orbán knows how to "game the system."...
What is the United States "gun lobby" and how powerful is it?
aljazeera.com > news...A massacre at a Texas primary school has again drawn attention to the powerful gun lobby in the United States, with Democratic officials blaming Republican legislators for remaining beholden to influential pro-gun interests that advocates say have stalled national gun reforms.... ...Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, as well as former US President Donald Trump, are set to speak later this week at a meeting in Texas hosted by the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, the organisation's self-described "lobbying" arm....
Tell us: what can be done to prevent mass shootings in the US?
theguardian.com > us-news > may...In light of the worst school shooting in America since Sandy Hook, a decade ago, we'de like to know what people think should be done to prevent future incidents of gun-fueled mass killings in the United States....
George Floyd two years on: some accountability but killings go on
aljazeera.com > news...Two years have passed since Minneapolis police handcuffed George Floyd's hands behind his back, pinned him face down on the street and choked the life out of him.... ..."For the two-year anniversary, it's woefully underwhelming and not at all something that befits the memory of George Floyd," Melina Abdullah, a Black Lives Matter grassroots organiser, told Al Jazeera. "We were hoping for something much more courageous."....
Six Ways Climate Change Is Making Poor People Poorer
voanews.com..."These effects are global, they are pronounced, and they are persistent," said Teevrat Garg, an economist at the University of California-San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy.... ...That's about half the workforce in South Asia. "Wage laborers like us work despite the heat," Indian construction worker Kushilal Mandal told Agence France-Presse in April. "We won't be able to eat if we don't work.". At these temperatures, heatstroke and even death are real risks....
South African Flood Victims" Shelters Damaged by More Rains
voanews.com...It has been over a month since historic floods in South Africa's eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal made nearly 7,000 people homeless.... ...Experts are calling South Africa's severe weather damage a wake-up call for better disaster management in the face of climate change. Alize le Roux is a senior researcher for the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria....
"I can"t breathe": How Manuel Ellis was killed by police
aljazeera.com > features...It was here that Marcia's son, Manuel Elijah Ellis, was killed by Tacoma police officers as he walked home from a convenience store two years ago.... ..."[Manuel] was murdered. He died by, first and foremost, a callous disregard for human life," Bible says. "How can you negotiate over a person's life?". Manuel was killed nearly three months before anti-police protests swept the country following the death of George Floyd....