Nika Knight, staff writer
Nika Knight is a Common Dreams staff writer.
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News Wednesday, April 05, 2017 Ominous or Ambiguous? Tillerson Offers Bizarre 'No Comment' on North Korea In a short and oblique statement, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reacted late Tuesday to North Korea's latest test launch of a ballistic missile with a curt "no comment." North Korea illegally test-fired the missile into the sea just days before a U.S.-China summit , which will see President... Read more |
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News Tuesday, April 04, 2017 TrumpCare Rears Its Ugly Head Again—And It's Even Worse Than Before Since President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) failed spectacularly last month to pass a long-promised healthcare bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), progressive voices have urged politicians to solve the problems of rising premiums and unequal... Read more |
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News Tuesday, April 04, 2017 Outcry as Trump Slashes Funding for World's Most Vulnerable Mothers and Newborns President Donald Trump's State Department announced late Monday that it was cutting off millions of dollars in funding for a United Nations family planning agency that offers reproductive and maternal health services worldwide, serving tens of thousands of women. Rights advocates and journalists... Read more |
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News Monday, April 03, 2017 Federal Judge Blocks Pence's "Extreme" Anti-Abortion Indiana Law A federal judge on Friday blocked a core provision of Indiana abortion legislation that Vice President Mike Pence lauded when he signed it into law "with a prayer" last year, the Associated Press reported Monday. The omnibus bill was described by reproductive rights advocates as "one of the worst... Read more |
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News Monday, April 03, 2017 Trump Administration Slapped With Lawsuits Over Blocked Energy Efficiency Standards A coalition of state attorneys general—led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman— announced plans Monday to file a lawsuit against the Department of Energy (DOE) under President Donald Trump for blocking Obama-era energy efficiency standards for a variety of commercial and consumer... Read more |
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News Monday, April 03, 2017 'Why is Jared Kushner in Iraq?' Trump Son-in-Law Expands Shadow Diplomat Role Raising eyebrows once again about President Donald Trump's merging of family and government business , Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner accompanied the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman on an official visit to Iraq on Monday. Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, has no diplomatic,... Read more |
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News Friday, March 31, 2017 As Trump Wages War on Science, Energy Grows for Worldwide March for Science President Donald Trump's administration has fulfilled his campaign rhetoric when it comes to waging war on science, from erasing WhiteHouse.gov references to climate change on the day of his inauguration, to banning the term "climate change" at the Department of Energy's climate office, to... Read more |
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News Friday, March 31, 2017 Senate Dems Ask for Gorsuch's Help to Expose Secret Donors Backing His Nomination In a strongly-worded open letter, six Democratic senators demanded Thursday that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch disclose the identities of donors behind the right-wing dark money group spending millions to push for his confirmation. The letter (pdf), signed by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 30, 2017 VP Pence Casts 'Awful' Tie-Breaking Vote to Defund Critical Family Planning Program To widespread outcry, a procedural vote on a GOP effort to slash funding for the Title X family planning program, which funds clinics that largely serve poor women and women of color, passed the Senate Thursday after Vice President Mike Pence was forced to cast a tie-breaking vote. The measure... Read more |
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News Thursday, March 30, 2017 EPA Rejects Own Science to Greenlight Brain-Damaging Pesticide Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt denied a 10-year-old petition late Wednesday to ban the use of chlorpyrifos , a widely-used pesticide that harms children's brains, in a decision that outraged public health advocates and environmentalists. In greenlighting the dangerous... Read more |