All News Articles for 2019-07-12
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'We Cannot Overstate the Harm This Decision Will Have': Oklahoma Judge Upholds Ban on Common Abortion Procedure "We will keep fighting this unconstitutional ban to make sure Oklahomans have access to the best medical treatment." Read more |
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News That Border Patrol Chief Was Part of Racist Facebook Group 'Not Surprising': Critics "The agency's culture is violent and racist for a reason." Read more |
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UltraViolet Says Acosta Departure Shows 'Need to Hold All the Powerful People,' Like Trump, Accountable Resignation of labor department secretary "should only be the beginning" Read more |
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CBP Agents' Coin Mocking Care of Migrant Children Exemplifies Agency's Culture of 'Reflexive Dehumanization,' Critics Say "Quite clearly, the inhumanness, disrespect, and xenophobia among some CBP agents knows no bounds." Read more |
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US House Applauded for Approval of 'Sweeping' Provisions That Target Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' As part of the annual defense spending bill, lawmakers passed several amendments on PFAS, including one that would designate them "hazardous substances" under the Superfund law Read more |
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"Endless War Isn't Inevitable": House Votes to Stop Trump From Launching Unauthorized Attack on Iran "Congress must continue using every available tool at its disposal to ensure that Donald Trump and John Bolton's march to war is fully blocked." Read more |
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Trump's POS Labor Secretary, Acosta, Out. POS Number 2, Linked to Abramoff, to Fill Role Deputy Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella will now serve as acting secretary Read more |
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Progressives Push Back After Congressional Black Caucus Attacks Justice Democrats Over Primary Challenges "This is a democracy and voters deserve choices." Read more |
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To Bolster Grassroots Groups' Demands for Climate Action, Philanthropists Raise $600,000 for Extinction Rebellion and School Strikers "Our climate crisis demands a new paradigm, requiring the phasing out of fossil fuel infrastructure, the phasing in of non-fossil energy sources, and large-scale removal of carbon from the atmosphere." Read more |
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'Embarrassing Nepotism': Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Appoints Son as Ambassador to US One critic said that it's "only a matter of time now before the son of Brazil's wannabe despot has an official meeting with the daughter of America's wannabe despot." Read more |
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Powerful and Emotional Testimony From Escobar, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Pressley on Family Separation and Child Imprisonment Four members of Congress retold in witness testimony to their fellow lawmakers Friday morning what they saw and experienced during a recent visit to a U.S. border detention facility in Texas, sparing no graphic or emotional detail. Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y... Read more |
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'Visit the Camps Yet?' Campaign Urges Pelosi to See for Herself the Horrific Conditions at Trump Detention Centers "Speaker Pelosi, visit the camps! And bring the conservative Democrats with you—so you can all see why Trump's child abuse at the border needs to be reined in now." Read more |
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'This Is a Dangerous Game': Iran Tells US and UK to Leave Gulf Region Immediately as Tensions Soar With control of world's oil supplies still dominant U.S. goal, the Iranian government claims U.K. attempting to provoke conflict with illegal tanker seizure and false accusations Read more |
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'We Have a President Who Lost the Popular Vote by Three Million': Sanders Backs Abolishing the Electoral College Nearly two-thirds of Americans support replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote system, according to recent polling Read more |