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Millions of Unwitting Americans Paying $1 Billion More for Dirty Coal Energy Each Year When Cleaner, Cheaper Sources Available "What this study shows is that, in essence, customers are paying extra to put more global warming emissions into the atmosphere." Read more |
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Naomi Klein: A Year After Hurricane Maria, There Is Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico’s Disaster "I don't think we should be surprised Donald Trump is denying hard reality… Hurricane Maria was the catalyst for thousands of people losing their lives" Read more |
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World Audibly Laughs After Trump Claims His Administration Among Most Accomplished in US History During UN Address "In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country," Trump declared before laughter broke out in the hall. Read more |
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Stay of Execution for Yellowstone Grizzly Bears as Court Rules Trump Admin Illegally Gutted Protections "These beautiful and beleaguered animals certainly shouldn't be shot for cheap thrills or a bearskin rug." Read more |
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Former UN Chief Ban Ki-moon: US For-Profit Health System 'Politically and Morally Wrong' It is "unethical" to deprive people of healthcare, which is a "human right," he says, calling for a universal, publicly-funded system Read more |
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Unimpressed Critics Say Kavanaugh's Soft-Ball Interview on Fox Shows Just 'How Blatantly He'll Lie to Try and Advance His Career' "Brett Kavanaugh is a liar. His 'I was just an innocent boy' claims on Fox are laughable and an insult to any American with common sense." Read more |
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'Ted Cruz and Brett Kavanaugh Are Best Friends!': Texas Senator Flees Restaurant After Confronted by Sexual Assault Survivor and Allies "While our interruption does not compare in scale to the interruptions his actions as a Senator have had on millions of American lives, we hope that it reminds Cruz and others like him that they are not safe from the people they have hurt." Read more |
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Ten Years After Not One High-Level Banker Sent to Jail for Tanking Global Economy, This Man Gets 20 Years in Prison for Stealing Cigarettes This is America. Read more |
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Students at Yale Law School, Kavanaugh's Alma Mater, Join Nationwide Protests Against His Confirmation "We urge the Senate Judicial Committee to give Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Debbie Ramirez the fair investigation that they're due and they've asked for." Read more |
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Arguing Kavanaugh and Rosenstein Part of Same Story, Progressives Ready for Both: 'Women Multitask: That's What We Do.' "Resist saying the Rosenstein story is a distraction for the Kavanaugh story. Both are the same story: how the Trump administration wants to subvert rule of law and have its people do its corrupt bidding." Read more |
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If Trump Fires Rosenstein... Here's the Rapid Response Plan to Flood the Nation's Streets "You know those signs that say 'In case of emergency, break glass?' This is that emergency." Read more |
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Dozens Arrested as Survivors Flood Capitol Hill to Share Trauma of Sexual Assault, Demand Senate Reject Kavanaugh "The stories we're hearing from survivors are chilling. They're all too devastating and all too common. They're why we're here today." Read more |
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'Slow-Moving Saturday Night Massacre' on Hold After Rosenstein Emerges from White House With Job Intact "Making Trump fire him would be a good way to get a parting shot by Rosenstein. Resigning, on the other hand, gives Trump everything he wants, both politically and procedurally." Read more |
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As War on Drugs Again Declared Failure, Trump's UN Event Dismissed as 'Splashy' Backward-Thinking Photo Op "President Trump is the last person who should be defining the global debate on drug policy," says one expert. "Trump has shown complete disdain for human rights and international law." Read more |
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'Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached—Not Promoted': Second Sexual Assault Allegation Intensifies Opposition to Supreme Court Nominee "Brett Kavanaugh was unfit to serve before these latest allegations, now there can be no question that he must not serve on the highest court in the land." Read more |
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'Sinister': As GOP Tried to Push Through Kavanaugh Vote, Senators Reportedly Knew of Second Assault Allegation " Will any reporter or anchor now grill Mitch McConnell on how he knew about this second case concerning Kavanaugh but still pushed to move everything up?" Read more |
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Trump's 'Devastating' New Proposal Offers Green Cards 'To the Highest Bidder,' Rejecting Families Who Have Received Public Benefits "This proposal says work and family don't matter—only money matters. And at a time when one-fourth of children in America have at least one immigrant parent, it's a direct attack on children." Read more |
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Rouhani Blames US-Backed Gulf State for Terror Attack, Vows to Confront Trump at UN General Assembly "America is acting like a bully toward the rest of the world...and thinks it can act based on brute force." Read more |
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Nationwide Walkout Planned to Show Solidarity with Sexual Assault Survivors as Ford Reaches Tentative Deal to Testify Thousands of people across the country have pledged to walk out of their workplaces and schools on Monday at 1:00pm EST Read more |
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As Trump Vows to Rid DOJ of 'Lingering Stench,' Ted Lieu Warns of Obstruction of Justice if Rosenstein is Fired "If the president [fires Rosenstein], it really would be a pretext to get the Mueller investigation." Read more |
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Fearing Courthouse Arrests Under Trump's Crackdown, Undocumented Immigrants Refuse to Testify in Domestic Abuse Cases "It means that abusers are beginning to feel that they are immune from prosecution, and it's become, unfortunately, a tool to further victimize women who are the victims of domestic violence." Read more |
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As Polls Show Toss-Up Over Texas Senate Seat, Cruz Uses First Debate to Attack O'Rourke's Increasingly Popular Progressive Proposals Despite right-wing senator's rhetoric, O'Rourke's support for combating use of force by police, the DACA program, and other progressive initiatives are popular among Americans Read more |
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Sexual Assault Survivors Share #WhyIDidntReport in Response to Trump's Ignorant Attack on Ford "Two out of three sexual assaults are never reported. Might have something to do with the fact that for every 1,000 rapes, 994 perpetrators walk free." Read more |
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As Right-Wingers Push Trump to Fire Rosenstein, Here's What to Do If He Does "Our response in the hours following a potential power grab will dictate what happens next—whether Congress will stand up to Trump or allow him to move our democracy toward authoritarianism." Read more |
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400,000 Americans in 900 Cities Ready to Take to Streets If President Trump Fires Rosenstein After NYT Bombshell Rosenstein evoked the 25th Amendment last year and also suggested he secretly record the president "to expose the chaos" engulfing the White House, according to the New York Times Read more |
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Millions of Women Join Forces in Brazil to Fight Back Against 'Misogynist" and 'Truly Fascist' Presidential Candidate "We need everyone to pull together to stop this disaster happening to our country." Read more |
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NYT Latest to Sue for FCC Documents as Demands Pile Up for Ajit Pai to Come Clean on Net Neutrality Comments Lawsuit claims Pai's commission has "thrown up a series of roadblocks" to prevent the newspaper from obtaining records which its journalists first requested in the summer of 2017 Read more |
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Progressives to DNC: It Would Be 'Insane' Not to Hand Over Twitter Account to Ocasio-Cortez "It's kind of amazing that one of the most naturally talented politicians to emerge in some time also happens to be a highly effective, aggressive, and rather merciless combatant in social media messaging." Read more |
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Maine Lawmakers Vote to Curb Free Speech by Banning Projection of Political Messages onto State House "It's free speech...It's a public space, paid for with tax dollars. It's our State House." Read more |
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Kavanaugh Ally Deletes 'Batshit' Theory Just in Time for Trump to Attack Ford's Credibility "You have no idea" how hard it's been to keep Trump from attacking Kavanaugh's accuser, a White House source told Axios Read more |
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On Trump's New York Doorstep, Demands for Puerto Rico Recovery That Puts Human Dignity Over Profit "We need to ensure that we are fighting against a predatory system that sucks every bit of value from the backs of working people." Read more |
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As Collins Appears to Side With Kavanaugh Over Assault Allegation, Group Issues Warning: Women Won't Forget "If it's truly Senator Collins' intention to side with Brett Kavanaugh over Dr. Blasey Ford, she will never again be able to claim the mantle of an ally to women or survivors." Read more |
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'This Incident Did Happen': Schoolmate of Kavanaugh Accuser Says She Recalls Hearing of Attempted Rape "The FBI needs to interview this witness," declared Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) Read more |
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Activists Declare #FireZinke and State AGs File Suit After Interior Dept Guts Methane Rules for Public Lands "Ryan Zinke has wasted tax dollars on private jets, has entered into a shady deal with an oil exec, and is dead set on handing our public lands over to corporate polluters." Read more |
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Amid Call to 'Push Pause Button' on Kavanaugh Hearing in Order to Probe Assault Allegation, Trump Lies That FBI Can't Investigate While claiming Christine Blasey Ford's allegations are "hard to believe," the president refuses to allow an investigation to uncover the truth Read more |
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US Now Supporting Starvation on 'Unprecedented Scale' as Yemen Famine Threatens Five Million Children "This war," warns Save the Children International, "risks killing an entire generation of Yemen's children who face multiple threats, from bombs to hunger to preventable diseases like cholera." Read more |
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As Willie Nelson Says "I Don't Care" About Right-Wing Revolt Over Beto Endorsement, His Son Applauds Dad for Leading "With His Heart" According to a new poll, O'Rourke is leading Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by two points just weeks ahead of the November midterm elections Read more |
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President Trump, Himself Accused by Multiple Women of Sexual Assault, Says "Very Hard for Me to Imagine" Kavanaugh Sexually Assaulted Ford While women's rights advocates say it is well past time that credible allegations be taken seriously and that women who come forward be believed and treated with dignity, Trump has once more placed his sympathies with the accuser over the accused Read more |
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Corporate Tech Giants Invited, But Consumer Advocacy Groups Shut Out of Senate Hearing on Data Privacy "The absence of consumer representatives all but ensures a narrow discussion, focused on policy alternatives favored by business groups." Read more |
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With Soaring Profits Going Straight to the Top, Disregarded Steel Workers Unanimously Approve Strike "We're asking for a fair contract. The company can afford it." Read more |
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Imperial Flattery and Presidential Narcissism: Poland's Offer to Help Build 'Fort Trump' Has It All "Give it to the Poles, they know how to play to Trump's ego." Read more |
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With Supreme Court Decision on Dark Money "We're About to Know a Lot More About Who Is Funding Our Elections" "We are about to drive a lot of dark money donors into the light—it's gonna look like the climax of a Harry Potter movie where the creatures shrivel in the sun." Read more |
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As Kavanaugh Caught Bragging 'What Happens at Georgetown Prep Stays at Georgetown Prep,' Sen. Hirono Calls on Men to 'Shut Up and Step Up' "We will not stand for the continued victimization and smearing of Dr. Blasey Ford. All of us must work to end this kind of treatment of survivors who bravely share their experiences." Read more |
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Enabling Big Oil to 'Pollute With Impunity' on Public Lands, Trump Guts Methane Restrictions The White House, say green groups, is "once again taking its marching orders from the oil and gas industry while ignoring taxpayers and people who are living every day with the devastating impacts of drilling in their backyards." Read more |
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Kevin de León's New Campaign Video About His Undocumented Mother Will Break Your Heart (and Dianne Feinstein's Not Going to Like It) "I hope you find watching it as moving as I did making it," said Democrat challenging the California incumbent for the U.S. Senate Read more |
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#MeToo Movement Takes on McDonald's as Workers Strike Against Sexual Harassment 'Epidemic' "Managers feel it's not their problem," says one female worker. "They don't take it seriously." Read more |
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'Beyond Shameful': Attempting to Put Victim on Trial, Collins Wants to Let Kavanaugh's Lawyer Question His Accuser "Collins seems to have forgotten that Brett Kavanaugh is the one who has been accused of a crime, not Christine Blasey Ford." Read more |
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Trump's Space Force Would Cost $13 Billion and the Air Force Wants 70 New Squadrons, But 'How You Gonna Pay For It?' When Medicare for All and paid family leave are called "pie in the sky," but the Air Force says its current fleet of 312 squadrons—which cost many billions each—"is not enough" Read more |
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Facebook Job Ads That Let Employers Exclude Women Are Clear Civil Rights Violation, Says ACLU "We can't let gender-based ad targeting online give new life to a form of discrimination that should have been eradicated long ago." Read more |
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As Demands Grow for Kavanaugh to Withdraw and FBI to Probe Assault Allegations, Anita Hill Offers 'Basic Ground Rules' for Senate Hearing Failing to implement a formal process to review such allegations shows the Judiciary Committee "has learned little from the Thomas hearing, much less the more recent #MeToo movement." Read more |
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'Say No to Red Tide Rick': Florida Governor Forced to Flee Event After Angry Protesters Shame Him Over Anti-Environment Record "Scott can't run from his record of eviscerating Florida's environmental protections," says the state's Democratic Party Read more |
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After Russian Military Aircraft Shot Down Near Syria, Russian Claims Israel 'Deliberately Staged This Provocation' Fifteen airmen were killed by anti-aircraft from closed ally Syria, but Russians are blaming Israel for knowingly creating the dangerous situation Read more |
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'Unconscionable' and 'Appalling': In Affront to Those Fleeing US-Backed Wars and Persecution, Trump Slams Door on Refugees "The U.S. has a direct moral responsibility to open its doors, given that our own nation is an active combatant in many of the conflicts driving the global refugee crisis." Read more |
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Melting Permafrost Projections Reveal Paris Climate Goals at Risk: Study "We have to prepare ourselves for the possibility that we may never get back to safer levels of warming." Read more |
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Facing Serious Sexual Assault Accusations, Alleged Perjury Doesn't Help Kavanaugh's Credibility While the nominee has a history of dishonesty and obfuscation, Ford has proven a very reluctant—yet so far compelling—witness to the events that took place more than three decades ago Read more |
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Free Press Advocates Alarmed by US Government's "Terrifying" Secret Rules for Spying on Journalists "It makes me wonder, what other rules are out there, and how have these rules been applied?" Read more |
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'This Election Is Last Chance to Stop Them': Kudlow Confirms Trump and GOP Ready to Gut Safety Net After Midterms "Believe them when they say they are coming after Medicare and Social Security." Read more |
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'Dumbest Policy in the World': Report Details How Canada's Massive Fossil Fuel Subsidies Undermine Climate Action Working to curb emissions while using public funds to subsidize oil and gas industry "is like trying to bail water out of a leaky boat" Read more |
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The US-Led Global War on Terrorism Has Succeeded... In Creating More Global Terrorism Since 9/11, the regions where the U.S. military has been most active—countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia—have seen a five-fold increase in violent attacks Read more |
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Medicare for All Is 'Not Just Pie in the Sky': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "Medicare for all would save the American people a very large amount of money," New York congressional candidate tells CNN Read more |
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Internet Howls After Learning Trump Will Soon Be Able to Send Text Alerts to Every Single US Resident Sorry. No opting out. Read more |
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Scores Feared Dead in Philippines After Massive Landslide Triggered by Typhoon Mangkhut Recovery efforts are only beginning in the Philippines and Hong Kong as Southern China continues to battle rain and strong winds Read more |
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Kavanaugh Accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, Willing to Testify Before Senate: Attorney According to her attorney, woman who has accused Trump's Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault "is willing to do whatever it takes to get her story forth." Read more |
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Warnings of 'Catastrophic and Historic' Flooding as Experts Say Worst of Hurricane Florence Yet to Come "For many (most?) places, the worst of Florence's flooding is still on the way. Still expecting record or near-record flooding across a large part of North Carolina in the days to come." Read more |
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While Women's Rights Group Demand Kavanaugh Withdraw, Susan Collins Doesn't "Know Enough to Make a Judgment" "NOW respectfully demands that Brett Kavanaugh withdraw and if he doesn't, that the Committee and the full Senate rejects the nomination of this flawed nominee," said Toni Van Pelt, president for the National Organization for Women Read more |
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Super Typhoon Mangkhut Rips Through Hong Kong After Pummeling Philippines Cellphone videos show just how destructive the storm has been. Read more |
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Kavanaugh's Accuser Comes Forward, Speaks Out: ‘I Thought He Might Inadvertently Kill Me’ The accuser, a professor at Palo Alto University, passed a polygraph test. Will Kavanaugh take one? Read more |
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Hurricane Florence Threatens Many Homes That Already Cost the Government Millions The storm is pummeling coastal towns that are battling rising sea levels and have been repeatedly bailed out by federal flood insurance. Read more |
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After Decades as Progressive Champion, Willie Nelson Somehow Angers Right-Wing Texans by Going "All In" for Beto O'Rourke "Will someone please explain to me what in Willie's background ever caused you to believe he is a conservative." Read more |
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Canadian Users of Legalized Marijuana Could Face Lifetime Bans From US, Warns Top Trump Border Official "U.S. border policy on pot is about to get even stupider." Read more |
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'What in Blazes Was Dianne Feinstein Thinking?': Senator Under Fire for Concealing Accusations Against Kavanaugh Feinstein "made an absolute disaster of things." Read more |
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Facebook Condemned for Empowering Right-Wing Magazine to "Drive Liberal News Outlets Into the Ground" What do you achieve when you let the Weekly Standard operate as a fact-checker for one of the internet's most powerful platforms? "You achieve bullshit." Read more |
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'Bigger, Stronger, and More Dangerous' Than Florence, Super Typhoon Mangkhut Strikes the Philippines The U.N. warns the storm "can have a high humanitarian impact," affecting more than 40 million people across the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands Read more |
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As Trump WH Disputes Book's Claims, Woodward Says He Will Release the Tapes If Sources Agree "Seems to me anyone complaining about the book has a remedy: Ask Woodward publicly to release the tapes." Read more |
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To Prevent 'Major Extinction Crisis,' Scientist Call for Designating Half of Planet as Protected Areas by 2050 They propose protecting 30 percent by 2030, and 50 percent by 2050 Read more |
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The Clear Victim, Not the 'Perpetrator of a Crime': Outrage After Police and Local News Outlet Smear Botham Jean "There is literally no scenario where a black man killed by police (even an off-duty one) cannot be blamed for his own death." Read more |
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'Totally Disqualifying': Demands for Kavanaugh to Withdraw After Letter Details Alleged Sexual Assault The New Yorker provides information on contents of letter Sen. Dianne Feinstein forwarded to FBI Read more |
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On 10th Anniversary of Wall Street Crash, Warren Says: Break Up the Banks and Jail the Bankers To avoid another crash, the Massachusetts senator says the U.S. must "force law-breaking bankers to trade in their pinstripe suits for orange jumpsuits." Read more |
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Paul Manafort Flips: Former Trump Campaign Manager Cooperation Deal With Mueller Probe Includes "Any and All Matters" This development "should make President Donald Trump very nervous indeed." Read more |
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Bloomberg's Comparison of Climate Leaders to Xenophobic Build-the-Wall Trumpsters Denounced as 'Offensive' and 'Absurd' "There's nothing 'crazy' about opposing fossil fuels. To the contrary, given the perilous condition of our planet's future, anything less than a complete rejection of dirty oil and gas is the truly crazy position to hold." Read more |
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As Florence Makes Landfall, Poorest Once More Likely to Suffer Most From Storm's Destruction "These disasters drag into the light exactly who is already being thrown away," notes Naomi Klein Read more |
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'We Changed Albany Forever': Cuomo Defeats Nixon, But Progressives Crush GOP-Collaborating Democrats in New York "This is an incredible moment for progressives, but it's not just a moment—it's a movement, and this movement is only growing stronger." Read more |
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After Pressuring Seattle to Forgo Corporate Tax to Fund Affordable Housing, Bezos Commits Fraction of $163B Fortune to Help Homeless "The biggest statement Mr. Bezos could make is by raising the pay of workers in his own company. Philanthropy will not solve income inequality or stagnant wages." Read more |
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'Stopping Cuts Isn't Enough': Sanders Joins Over 150 Democrats to Launch 'Expand Social Security Caucus' "We are not going to let Social Security be destroyed. Hear that, Paul Ryan?" Read more |
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'Major Victory' as Top Court Says UK Snoopers Charter Violates EU Convention on Human Rights "This sends a clear message: Similar programs, such as those conducted by the NSA, are incompatible with human rights." Read more |
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As Florence Threatens 'Catastrophic' Destruction, A Reminder That North Carolina Passed Law Mandating Climate Warnings Be Ignored State legislators passed an anti-science law after a 2010 report warned global warming would cause devastating sea-level rise. Now, as a hurricane makes landfall, local experts demand policy change and urgent action Read more |
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'Seems Like a Pretty Big Deal': Senate Democrats Refer Secret Document About Brett Kavanaugh to FBI "Different sources provided different accounts of the contents of the letter, but the one consistent theme was that it describes an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school." Read more |
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Calling for Genuine Leadership Over 'Climate Capitalism,' Protesters Demand Seat at the Table at Business-Friendly Climate Action Summit "We are the solutions for this climate crisis, so we're here to protest in front of the summit that's on display for climate capitalism, essentially a trade show." Read more |
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'Crushing Defeat' for DeVos as Federal Judge Rules She Illegally Delayed Relief for Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges "This is a major victory for student borrowers and for anyone who cares about having a government that operates under the rule of law, instead of as a pawn of the for-profit college industry." Read more |
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'What Are Republicans Hiding?' GOP Senators Kill Democratic Effort to Subpoena Kavanaugh Documents "What is it worth for these witnesses to stand before our committee, raise their hand, and take an oath if they then turn around and say things that are not true to us and are not held accountable?" Read more |