Head of European Federation of Journalists blasts EU for refusing accreditation to Russian reporters

Published time: 25 Aug, 2017 12:32 The secretary-general of Europe’s largest journalists’ organization has described the refusal to allow Russian journalists to cover the upcoming informal meeting of EU foreign ministers as an attack on media freedom. Read more “This is indeed a serious attack on media freedom,” RIA Novosti quoted the head of the […]

Civil groups sue State Department for refusing to process visas of lottery winners

A quartet of civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the State Department for refusing to process applications from winners of the visa lottery program who hail from six Muslim-majority countries included in Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. The State Department has refused to issue visas under Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) Program despite awarding […]

Pediatricians are debating whether refusing to vaccinate a child can be construed as ‘medical neglect’

Loren Kerns on Flickr In May, Minnesota reached an unfortunate milestone: The state had seen more measles cases in the first five months of 2017 than the entire country had experienced in all of 2016. The number of cases was, at recent count, 79. Most of those diagnosed with measles have been children, and more […]

Senator blasts FCC for refusing to provide DDoS analysis

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Valery Brozhinsky) US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) criticized the Federal Communications Commission for failing to turn over its internal analysis of the DDoS attacks that hit the FCC’s public comment system. The FCC declined to provide its analysis of the attacks to Gizmodo, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request […]

Piers Morgan names and SHAMES MPs refusing to discuss Grenfell on Good Morning Britain

While a series of monumental failures have contributed the inferno, which is believed to have killed “hundreds” of residents from the West London tower block, Members of Parliament appear to be keeping their distance from the ITV show.  Regardless, Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid have been praised by viewers for “not letting this tower tragedy […]

NYPD sued for refusing to disclose face recognition technology docs

A privacy group is suing the NYPD for documents related to their secretive and unregulated facial recognition program. They say the technology can misidentify people, causing innocent people to be investigated or arrested. The Center on Privacy & Technology (CPT), a university think tank at Georgetown Law, announced Tuesday that it filed a Freedom of […]

Easter Bunny is real: Foster parents lose children after refusing to ‘lie’

Two Canadian foster parents had their foster children removed from their home because they refused to say the Easter Bunny is real. The Christian couple has taken court action, saying their rights have been violated. Derek and Frances Baars filed court papers against Hamilton Children’s Aid Society after the agency said they must tell their […]

Preet Bharara, the ‘Sheriff of Wall Street,’ is fired by Trump after refusing to resign

REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York – commonly known as the “sheriff of Wall Street” –  was fired by President Donald Trump on Saturday after refusing to tender his resignation. “I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever […]

Refusing To Be Shamed

How much do you love the “cash me ousside” meme? Enough to buy a “Cash Me Ousside” T-shirt from the “official as fuck” store of Danielle Bregoli, the girl who first uttered that fateful phrase? What about a 252-piece puzzle of her face, caught mid-sentence? Any interest in a $ 250 blanket that is named […]

‘Access doesn’t mean a damn thing’: Sanders slams Cruz for refusing to say healthcare is a right for all Americans

During a CNN debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, Bernie Sanders asked Ted Cruz if healthcare should be a right for all Americans. Republicans are currently working to repeal the ACA, but this could lead to millions of people being uninsured. Follow BI Video: On Twitter  Feedburner