Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Thursday, April 05, 2018 Not 50 Million, Not 87 Million... Facebook Admits Data From 'Most' of Its 2 Billion Users Compromised by 'Malicious Actors' Buried in Facebook's announcement that Cambridge Analytica had improperly gathered data from up to 87 million users—rather than the previously reported 50 million—was the stunning admission that "malicious actors" exploited the social networking site's search features to collect information from "... Read more |
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News Wednesday, April 04, 2018 Trump Interior Department Issues 'Death Sentence to Nearly 300 Threatened Species' In a "disgraceful" move that conservationists warn will amount to " a death sentence to nearly 300 threatened species," the Trump administration is attempting to kill a portion of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). "If these critical protections for threatened species are eliminated, Trump will go... Read more |
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News Wednesday, April 04, 2018 New CDC Report Raises Alarm About Growing Threat of 'Nightmare Bacteria' Adding to mounting concerns about widespread antibiotic resistance, U.S. public health officials detected more than 220 cases of what they described as "nightmare bacteria" across more than half the country last year, according to a new government report. In just nine months of surveillance during... Read more |
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News Wednesday, April 04, 2018 As Teacher Rebellion Catches Fire, Oklahoma's GOP Governor Dismisses Educators as Spoiled Children As teachers in the historically red states of Oklahoma , Kentucky , and Arizona are following in the footsteps of educators in West Virginia and turning out in droves to demand higher pay, reliable pensions, and greater government investments in the public school system, s ome Republican state... Read more |
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News Tuesday, April 03, 2018 To #SaveTheCensus, Major Cities Join 17 States in Lawsuit to Block Trump's Citizenship Question Attorneys General from 17 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration for its decision to ask about immigration status on the 2020 census, a move denounced by immigrant rights advocates as an effort to " undercount communities of color ." Led by Eric Schneiderman of New... Read more |
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News Tuesday, April 03, 2018 With Company Under Fire for Right-Wing Drivel, Sinclair Chairman Reportedly Denounced Print Media as 'Left Wing... Dribble' As right-wing television behemoth Sinclair Broadcast Group faces an onslaught of criticism for forcing local news anchors to read a script denounced as " Trumpian propaganda ," New York magazine reports that the company's executive chairman declined an interview request with a series of emails in... Read more |
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News Tuesday, April 03, 2018 After Trump Sides With Sinclair, Local Newsroom Staff Speak Out Against Right-Wing Broadcaster Some local broadcast news staff at stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group are speaking out against the company and President Donald Trump after he defended the right-wing broadcaster, which has come under fire following a viral video that showed how anchors across the country were forced to... Read more |
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News Monday, April 02, 2018 Texas Seeks Sessions' Approval to "Speed Up the Death Penalty Treadmill" Texas is seeking permission from Trump administration Attorney General Jeff Sessions to opt-in to a federal law that would fast-track executions, a move that critics warn could lead to the state killing more people—including those who are wrongfully convicted and those deemed too handicapped to be... Read more |
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News Monday, April 02, 2018 Showing Paris Not Enough, Studies Find 2°C Target Won't Stop 'Destructive and Deadly' Impacts of Global Warming A series of scientific studies published in a British journal on Monday echoes warnings from long-time critics of the Paris Agreement that meeting the accord's main goals will not be enough to prevent " destructive and deadly " impacts of the worldwide climate crisis. The May issue of Philosophical... Read more |
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News Friday, March 30, 2018 Calls for Pruitt to Resign After Reports of 'Sweetheart' Rental From Energy Lobbyist's Wife As key figures of the Trump administration face mounting concerns about conflicts of interest, a growing number of critics are calling for the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt after ABC News revealed that last year he rented a D.C. condo owned by the wife of... Read more |