John Queally

Bill Clinton Triggers Storm Of Critics After Touting Welfare, Prison Legacy

‘You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter,’ former president tells racial justice activists who interrupted campaign rally

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By John Queally
Though nobody likes getting interrupted during a speech, Bill Clinton is not getting many rave reviews for his confrontation with racial justice activists on Thursday. (Image: ABC News/Screenshot)

Riled by protesters who repeatedly interrupted a speech on behalf of wife and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia on Thursday, Bill Clinton is now under fire (and trending on Twitter) for how he responded to those challenging the political pair's record on criminal justice and welfare reform passed under his presidency in the

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Trump: We’re Gonna Be Looking Into’ How We Can Get Rid of All the Muslims

The racial politics of the current GOP frontrunner, warns one critic, are ‘just vague enough to be popular with enough people to earn him a serious following, but specific enough for us to know the atrocities this type of talk can lead to.’

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By John Queally

In a week that has already seen collective outrage in response to the treatment of a Muslim teenager in Texas who was handcuffed and arrested simply for bringing a homemade clock to school, the pervasiveness of Islamaphobic sentiment was on display once again overnight after Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump fielded a question in New

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Next War Of ‘Aggression’? US Drones Over Syria Seen As Sign Of Looming Airstrikes

Unilateral strikes by Obama administration would be “considered as aggression,’ says Syrian foreign minister.

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By John Queally

Under orders from President Barack Obama, according to reports, U.S. drones are now conducting reconnaissance missions over Syria in what many interpret as the preface to airstrikes in the country. As the Associated Press reports on Tuesday: The U.S. has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the OK, U.S.

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Former KKK Leader Charged In Shootings At Jewish Centers

Three people were killed at two separate locations on Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri.

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By John Queally

Police have arrested a man with a long history of involvement in racist and neo-Nazi groups for the shooting deaths of three people outside two separate Jewish community centers near Kansas City, Missouri on Sunday. According to reports, authorities have charged Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, with first degree murder after he opened fire at a Jewish

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‘Addressable TV’: Big Data’s Next Trick For Targeting You

Though already in use in many homes, ability for advertisers and political campaigners to target individual viewers is rapidly expanding

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By John Queally
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If you like when Amazon or other online retailers follow you around the internet advertising a certain style of boots you may have googled three week ago, you'll love the rapidly expanding technology that allows your television provider to sell political ads that target you and your family specifically based on what a data analysis firm has told

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Israeli Officials Lash Out After Kerry Mentions ‘Talk of Boycotts’

Despite assurances that US Secretary of State opposes the campaign, Israel bristles as it interprets his comments as elevating international BDS movement.

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By John Queally
Two Palestinian children try to help Palestinian Nariman Tamimi avoid arrest by Israeli soldiers during a protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, Friday, Aug 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's mere mention (or interpreted mention) of the 'boycott, divestment, and sanctions' (or BDS) campaign targeting the continued occupation of the West Bank was enough to set off a barrage of angry responses from Israeli officials and lawmakers over the weekend, creating new diplomatic tensions as Kerry continues to

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Is ‘Polar Vortex’ Attributable to Climate Change? Yes.

As temperatures plummet, a reminder: ‘Every weather event in the modern world is attributable to climate change.’

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By John Queally
A person walks in frigid temperatures near Constitution Avenue, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, in Washington. The National Weather Service said the mercury bottomed out at 3 degrees before sunrise at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport, with a wind chill of minus 16. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Weather isn't climate and the climate isn't weather, but if someone asks whether the 'polar vortex' now being experience by tens of millions of people across the country is driven by climate change, you don't have to wait for the next wave of scientific research to come out. The answer is 'Yes.' Sadly and predictably, however—as much of the

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