Social Issues

"Not in my back yard..."

San Francisco is one of the most progressive cities in the nation, especially when it comes to national immigration, notes San Francisco Chronicle's Vincent Woo.

We believe so much in the natural right of people to join us here in America that we fought to keep our status as sanctuary city even in the face of being federally defunded for it. We pride ourselves on our rejection of plans to tighten immigration controls and deport undocumented immigrants.

The FBI admits keeping tabs on the late American boxing legend Muhammad Ali after he converted to Islam and stood up to warmongers and racists during the 1960s. New documents made public by the FBI show that Ali’s ex-wife was treated as a “lead” during his divorce in 1966 as part of a larger investigation by the agency into the Nation of Islam. Sputnik reports: The 140 documents, some of which contain classified information, were released as a result of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization.

A new peer-reviewed study comparing the health of vaccinated vs unvaccinated children has concluded that kids who do not receive vaccinations are significantly healthier . The study, published in the journal of public health, confirmed that completely unvaccinated children tend to have less chronic disease and have a lower risk of getting autism than vaccinated kids.

On Wednesday, Greek yields surged when it emerged that diplomatic relations between Greece and the Eurogroup had broken down once again, after European finance ministers suspended negotiations over granting short-term debt relief to Greece as a result of pledges by embattled Greek PM Tsipras unexpectedly said he would grant low-income pensioners a pre-Christmas payoff by spending €600 million to the nation's 1 million low-income pensioners, to replace a Christmas bonus scrapped by the Greek bailout supervisors.

Awkward...

Brexit, in a single shot. This morning at the EU summit. pic.twitter.com/1WlKeekRQy

— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) December 15, 2016

As The Telegraph reports, the video, tweeted by journalists covering Thursday morning's event in Brussels, shows Mrs May having to fidget while her European counterparts greet each other warmly and chat. The PM has also not been invited to this evening's end-of-year dinner.