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News Friday, April 02, 2021 'We've Been Attacked': Suspect Dead, Officer Killed After Vehicle Rams Security Barrier on Capitol Hill This is a developing news story... Check back for possible updates... The U.S. Capitol was placed under lockdown Friday after a person rammed their vehicle into a security barricade at the complex, killing one officer and injuring another. After ramming the barricade, the driver reportedly exited... Read more |
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News Tuesday, March 30, 2021 New Covid-19 Cases Plummet 96% in Nursing Homes After Vaccinations: Report New Covid-19 cases have plummeted by 96% in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities since late December, a report published Tuesday by the industry group American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living revealed. AHCA/NCAL reports (pdf) a decline in new U.S. weekly... Read more |
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News Saturday, March 20, 2021 Large Pro-Democracy, Anti-Netanyahu Pre-Election Protest in Jerusalem Over 50,000 Israelis demonstrated outside the residence of right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Saturday evening, demanding his resignation just three days before the country’s fourth election in two years. 'Go vote. Switch the government. Bring about change.' The final mass... Read more |
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News Saturday, March 20, 2021 Biden Pushes Colombia to Restart Glyphosate Spraying Program After a six-year halt, Colombia plans to restart the toxic aerial spraying of glyphosate on coca crops as early as next month—drawing "most welcome" support from U.S. President Joe Biden and sharp criticism from 150 regional experts who wrote to Biden, "your administration is implicitly endorsing... Read more |
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News Friday, March 05, 2021 Award-Winning Playwright, Longtime Common Dreams Contributor Bill C. Davis Dies at 69 Award-winning playwright, artist, political activist, and veteran Common Dreams contributor Bill C. Davis has died at the age of 69 due to complications from COVID-19. According to the Washington Post , Davis' death on February 26 at a care facility in Connecticut was confirmed by his sister,... Read more |
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News Thursday, February 25, 2021 'Joe Biden Just Dropped Bombs on Syria. Here We Go Again': US Responds to Rocket Attacks With Airstrikes This is a breaking story… Please check back for possible updates... Sparking swift criticism of U.S. imperialism, the United States on Thursday carried out airstrikes ordered by President Joe Biden on facilities in Syria that government officials told reporters belonged to Iran-backed militia... Read more |
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News Wednesday, February 17, 2021 'Great, Now Do Mar-A-Lago!': Atlantic City's Trump Plaza Razed to the Ground The once towering symbol of Donald Trump's Atlantic City performance as a real estate magnate and casino wunderkind was turned into dust Wednesday morning when the disgraced former U.S. president's prized Trump Plaza—abandoned and left to decay after a series of bankruptcies and failures —was... Read more |
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News Saturday, February 13, 2021 'He Is Who We Thought He Was': McConnell Tells GOP Colleagues He Will Vote to Acquit Trump Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky informed colleagues in an email Saturday morning that he will vote to acquit Donald Trump on the charge of inciting a deadly insurrection, despite admitting less than two weeks after the January 6 assault that the former president "... Read more |
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News Friday, February 12, 2021 'History Is Watching and So Is The Nation': As Impeachment Trial Wraps Up, Senate Urged to Convict Trump While Democratic prosecutors and attorneys for Donald Trump on Friday wrapped up the fourth day of the former president's unprecedented second impeachment trial, senators faced mounting pressure to convict Trump for inciting the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol with months of lies about the... Read more |
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News Friday, February 12, 2021 WATCH LIVE: Defense to Deliver Rebuttal on Day 4 of Impeachment Trial After Dems Dub Trump 'Inciter-in-Chief' On the heels of a controversial Thursday night meeting between lawyers for Donald Trump and three GOP senators who are serving as jurors in his historic second impeachment trial, the former president's attorneys on Friday are set to deliver a rebuttal to Democratic prosecutors' case for convicting... Read more |