All News Articles for 2019-08-16
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Medicare for All Proponent Ady Barkan Urges Supporters to Demand Dems Have 'Real Healthcare Debate' "We want ABC and Univision to put healthcare front and center." Read more |
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Behavior of Australia's Prime Minister at Pacific Islands Forum Makes Clear Climate Crisis Not A Priority "Watered-down climate language has real consequences—like water-logged homes, schools, communities, and ancestral burial grounds." Read more |
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In Face of Violence, Racist Rhetoric, and Mass ICE Raids, Latinx Community Leaders Publish Letter Declaring, 'We Will Not Be Silenced' "We won't stop organizing for ourselves, our children, and for the soul of this nation." Read more |
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Explains What She and Rep. Tlaib Planned to Accomplish Before Israel Barred Them "The occupation is real. Barring members of Congress from seeing it does not make it go away. We must end it—together." Read more |
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As New Studies Shed Light on Struggles of Trans People in US, Expert Highlights Trump's Attacks "Transgender people are being denied equal rights—to jobs, to housing, to healthcare, and to participation in the military." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Leads 2020 Democratic Field Among College Students: Poll "We are going to build a nationwide movement of young people to create a government and an economy that work for all of us," Sanders said in response to the survey Read more |
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Refusing to Be Humiliated, Rashida Tlaib Rejects Israel's Restrictive Conditions on Visiting Palestine "What Israel proposed to Rashida Tlaib was their age-old proposition: you can stay in your homeland as a humanitarian exception—without political rights—and on condition you surrender and cease to resist." Read more |
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Critics Denounce Trump's "Dangerous" Claim That Locking Away Americans With Mental Illnesses Is the Answer to Gun Violence "Painting institutions where we lock up all the people whose brains don't work like you want them to, as the solution to gun violence would be laughable in its absurdity, if it wasn't such a terrifying concept." Read more |
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Trump Administration Advances Massive Arms Sale to Taiwan Amid Tensions With Beijing The new potential sale reportedly includes dozens of F-16 fighter jets Read more |
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After Public Outcry, Trump EPA Reverses Approval for Using 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill US Wildlife "I hope the feds finally recognize the need for a permanent ban to protect people, pets, and imperiled wildlife from this poison." Read more |
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Aid Groups Warn of 'Untold Suffering for Millions' as Trump Weighs Billions in Cuts to UN Humanitarian Programs Trump's budget office reportedly sent the proposed cuts to the State Department for review despite protests from advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers Read more |
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'This Is Final Proof That He Has Gone Mad': Denmark Mocks Trump Reported Desire to Buy Greenland "The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous." Read more |
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Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden "The White House is calling for reauthorization of a program that security agencies have used to spy on innocent people, violate their privacy, and chill free speech." Read more |
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Sanders Says If Israel Wants to Ban Members of Congress, It Should Not Receive Billions in US Military Aid "The idea that a member of the United States Congress cannot visit a nation which, by the way, we support to the tune of billions and billions of dollars is clearly an outrage." Read more |