Public safety and emergency officials continue their rescue efforts after Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida coast and wreaked devastating havoc in the state.
The hurricane morphed into a Category 4 with wind speeds up to 155 miles per hour, making it the third-strongest hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. Michael killed at least 11 people and has left 1.5 million people across five states without power.
On this special day, my birthday, since I am now one-year older and deeper in age, I wish to say... My dear, on the day when you see I'm getting so old that I do not respond to all the things I am told, I ask you to please hold on be patient and understand. If I repeat the same thing many times, don't interrupt to say: "You said the same thing a minute ago"... Just wait and listen, please?
When I don't want to freshen-up, don't be angry and don't embarrass me. Remember when I waited for you to get out of the loo, or ask you to take a bath and put it back.
A tragicomedy is a literary genre blending aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, and not politics. The term can be described by either a tragic play or one which contains enough comic elements, or both.
For instance, take yesterday’s POTUS show at our White House Oval Office, where historic discussions and world-shaping events have taken place.
Today is the deadline in New York if you stil;l need to register to vote during the Novermber 6 Midterm Elections. Data indicates that 62 percent of people aged 22 to 38 say they are looking forward to the vote, This figure represents a big leap from 2014 when it was 46 percent and in 2010 it was only 39 percent, according to Pew Research.
However, political realities appear to be bringing about the turnout in special and primary elections this year, which has been bumped, thanks partly to more young people becoming actively involved in our democratic system.
The whole world is watching as one claims to be the most bullied people on earth while the other jurist denies everything and thinks he can do no wrong. Americans should stop believing The White House, @GOP and their right-wing spin machine.
What if there was a political rally held, but nobody covered it? Who keeps refusing to do their jobs? While a historically powerful hurricane ravages the gulf coast, instead of attending to the millions of Americans who are suffering, @POTUS attended a $250,000 fundraiser before holding a camp pain rally in Erie, Pennsylvania.
An economic agenda for a divided nation Podcast featuring a conversation with Governors John Hickenlooper and John Kasich.
This sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities will take place today at 2P EDT, so tune in to watch Governors John Hickenlooper (D-Col.) and John Kasich (R-Ohio) join Brookings economist Isabel Sawhill for a discussion on advancing the economic interests of American workers who feel disenfranchised by inequality and job losses.
He has been a Democrat, an independent and a Republican. Round and round he goes, where he'll land nobody knows... Not yet.
Bloomberg LP founder may be considering running for president as a Democrat. The former NYC Mayor has formally changed his voter registration back to Democrat.
As climate change continues to harm our planet, some Florida residents are in the dangerous path of Hurricane Michael, which could become the most extremely destructive storm to hit the Panhandle area in many years.
The National Hurricane Center upgraded Michael to an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. Michael could slam the region this afternoon and is about 180 miles of Panama City, Florida, and about 170 miles of Apalachicola, Florida.
This latest alarming report on climate change must now begin to reverse our inaction. This is the most pressing issue and perhaps the biggest news story of our generation.
While some leaders mock scientific studies and reverse the significant amount of progress which still needs to be made, the future of planet Earth has become a voting issue.
This is not a wake-up call. The whole world should now be aware of the single most threatening issue facing our planet. Planet earth has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change or else we're all doomed.
Climate change is the statistical distribution of weather patterns for an extended period of time. Also known as global warming is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects, as part of climate change. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.