Andrea Germanos Posts

Jeffery Wood on track to be the 'least culpable person executed in the modern era of death penalty'

'Industry-backed state laws to block municipal broadband only exist because pliant legislators are listening to their Big Cable and Big Telecom paymasters'

The trio's scheme was a "very serious crime," judge says

"Our findings dramatize the urgent need for national health insurance—a single-payer reform with first-dollar coverage—that would assure that all Americans can get the care they need."

Last week, Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan said years into the United States' fight against the Islamic State, the terrorist group's reach and power have not been diminished and that it has even more fighters than al-Qaeda had at its height.

Decision "paves the way for a private corporation to profit from a vital public resource for decades to come."

Mergers like Bayer's rumored takeover of Monsanto 'would make it even harder for farmers, consumers and communities to build a vibrant, sustainable food system' German chemical giants Bayer AG and BASF SE are both considering takeovers of U.S. seed behemoth Monsanto, according to news reports on Thursday. Of the potential Bayer takeover of Monsanto, valued at roughly $40 billion, Bloomberg noted that it "would create the world’s largest supplier of seeds and farm chemicals."

Following suggestions that he somehow "bungled" when asked about how he would, if elected president, break up Wall Street's largest and most dangerous institutions, the Bernie Sanders campaign on Tuesday offered a detailed explanation of how he would end "too-big-to-fail banks."

SeaWorld CEO Joel Manby has for the first time admitted that the company's workers have posed as animal rights activists to spy on critics of the park's treatment of captive marine creatures.

Manby made the admission during an investor relations call on Thursday, saying,

A Muslim teen with dreams of becoming an engineer brought a clock he made to his Texas high school on Monday. Then he was arrested, handcuffed and suspended for three days.

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Saturday that he thinks the Hillary Clinton campaign is "getting nervous about the kind of energy and enthusiasm our campaign is bringing forth."

New research underway indicates that at least three feet of global sea level rise is near certain, NASA scientists warned Wednesday.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law on Thursday legislation that critics say sells out the state's water supply and democratic process for private profits.

South Carolina's capital city is exploring the possibility of privatizing its water and sewage system, prompting warnings that it could spell higher costs and lack of public control over "our most essential resource."

In a development some are describing as a win for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Wall Street banker nominated by President Barack Obama for a senior post at the Treasury Department has withdrawn himself from consideration.

Fossil fuel energy companies have spent over $7.6 million to defeat a measure that would ban fracking in California's Santa Barbara County.

Officials on Sunday are continuing work to contain what an EPA representative called a major oil spill in northwestern Louisiana that could take months to clean up.

They are vanishing before our very eyes. Polar bears, monarch butterflies and the North Pacific right whale are among the list of 10 American species a conservation coalition warns that our children may never see.

Google's practices are "almost identical" to those of the U.S. National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, Julian Assange has said.

August 2014 was the warmest since records began in 1880, new data from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies reveals.