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33+ min ago (231+ words) The President emphasized that human rights must be ensured for all, including the person in the last mile, in keeping with the philosophy of Antyodaya. She stated that each and every citizen should be an active participant in the nation's development journey towards building a Viksit Bharat by 2047. Only then can development be called inclusive in the real sense. The President said that women's empowerment and their welfare are key pillars of human rights. She was happy to note that NHRC has organized a conference on women's safety in public places and workplaces. She stated that the conclusions drawn from such conferences can prove crucial in ensuring women's safety and empowerment. The President said that recently, the Government has notified the implementation of a major reform through the four Labour Codes related to wages, industrial relations, social security and occupational…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (785+ words) A new report from the World Inequality Lab, the product of four years of comprehensive research, finds that economic inequality on a world scale continues to increase by leaps and bounds, with vast wealth concentrated in a tiny handful of billionaires and centi-millionaires. As the report's foreword declares:" The data presented here are striking. The richest 10% of the global population own close to three-quarters of all wealth, while the poorest half hold barely 2%. Fewer than 60,000 multi-millionaires now control three times more wealth than half of humanity combined. Within most countries, the bottom 50% rarely possess more than 5% of national wealth." The World Inequality Lab was established through efforts to investigate global inequality initially spearheaded by economists Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, co-authors of a series of studies on the concentration of wealth and income. According to the report, the…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago (782+ words) The US military seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, a brazen act of piracy that marks a major escalation in the Trump administration's war preparations against the South American country. Speaking at the White House, Trump announced the operation in the language of a gangster: "We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually." When asked what would happen to the oil, Trump replied, "Well, we keep it, I guess." The Venezuelan government characterized the seizure as "barefaced robbery and an act of international piracy" aimed at stripping the country of its oil wealth. On Tuesday, two US fighter jets circled the Gulf of Venezuela for approximately 40 minutes, coming within 20 nautical miles of Venezuelan territory in an unmistakable provocation. The tanker seizure is a…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago (370+ words) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) slammed President Donald Trump on Wednesday for giving the economy a grade of "A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus." On Tuesday, Politico released an interview with Trump in which he gave the economy a glowing review. "A-plus," he said when asked what grade he would give the economy. "Yeah, A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus." He also claimed that "prices are coming down substantially." That view doesn't square with how Americans feel, however. Just 36% of Americans approve of his handling of the issue, according to a Fox News poll last month. Meanwhile, nearly half of Americans say Trump's policies have personally hurt them. In an interview with CBS News on Wednesday, Greene criticized Trump's rosy economic outlook. "The president needs to be aware that he's a billionaire president of the United States," she said. "You can't gaslight people and tell them that their bills are…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago (641+ words) Are you a Factory Zero worker? Fill out the form at the end of this article to get information on building a rank-and-file committee to lead the fight against the layoffs. General Motors workers leaving the Factory Zero plant in Detroit Wednesday afternoon denounced the layoffs and the complicity of United Auto Workers in the destruction of their jobs. With the permanent layoff of 1,140 workers at the assembly plant scheduled for January 5, workers spoke about the hardships they are facing and expressed support for a fight to defend their jobs." Supporters of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) distributed the statement "Mobilize to stop GM layoffs at Factory Zero in Detroit'Build Rank-and-File Committees." It calls on workers to form independent committees capable of organizing a real fight, unifying workers across plants and borders and breaking out of the…...

1+ hour, 31+ min ago (353+ words) Most interactions are "very respectful," he said " but a few stand out for the wrong reasons. As fans prepare for the arrival of Emily in Paris Season 5, Lucas Bravo is opening up about navigating the spotlight " and the fandom that comes with it. The French actor " who plays Emily's on-and-off love interest Gabriel " appeared on a Dec. 8 episode of the Chicks in the Office podcast, where he responded to a question about the show's "ginormous popularity" and the fans that come with it. For the most part, he said, viewers "don't freak out" over him in public. "When I run into people in the street, they're very respectful," he went on. "They connect with my work, they recognize me, but they talk to me like you would talk to a person you don't know." But, he noted, some fan encounters…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (367+ words) MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace on December 10, 2025 (Image: Screengrab via MS NOW / YouTube) President Donald Trump recently admitted on Truth Social that he was given multiple screenings to gauge his cognitive function. MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace thinks more Americans should be concerned about whether the president is of sound mind. During a Wednesday segment on "Deadline: White House," Wallace began a monologue by playing a clip of Trump discussing his Truth Social post with reporters on Air Force One. The president was seen boasting about passing the dementia screening tests in front of multiple physicians. "I've taken the cognitive test, I think, four times, and I've got nothing wrong. That's what the American people want," Trump said. "Describing the early screen for dementia as the standard, he has passed four times. Two times in his telling, or last night…...

1+ hour, 34+ min ago (278+ words) Trump has 'fun' but Fails to Feel Americans' Pain on Prices Stephen Collinson: President Donald Trump certainly made himself feel better. Whether he did the same for gloomy voters haunted by high prices is more doubtful. Posted by REDIAL at 11:33 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | 1) Did Trump know where he was at? 2) Did Trump know who he was speaking to? 3) Did Trump know what he was supposed to be doing there? 4) Does Trump at this juncture even have the capability to wipe his own ass? We might get the 25th Amendment yet. But only after the dark personalities around Donald have squeezed every possible erg of manipulated behavior from this vain and doddering old man. #1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-10 08:09 AM | Reply A massive stroke would be fun #2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-10 01:17 PM | Reply #3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-10 01:34 PM | Reply We…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago (764+ words) On November 25 current mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser (Democratic), announced she would not seek a fourth term. The race for D.C.s next mayor became crowded from the moment Bowser made her announcement, with several current members of the D.C. Council among those joining the primary.Similar to the recent New York City mayoral election, the winner of the primary, set for June 16, 2026, would almost certainly be elected mayor in the heavily Democratic city. Among the first to declare her candidacy was Democrat Janeese Lewis George, currently representing Ward 4 in the D.C. Council. George, described in the bourgeois media as a "democratic socialist," was a member of the Metro D.C. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) upon her election in 2020 and was endorsed again by the organization prior to the 2024 elections that won her a second term. On Friday, the Metro D.C. DSA Facebook page reported…...

1+ hour, 44+ min ago (35+ words) Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. ALSO READ: 'We get blamed for everything': GOP senators know party is running over health-care cliff...