All News Articles for 2019-09-03
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Voting Rights Advocates Celebrate 'Huge Win for Democracy' as NC State Court Strikes Down GOP's Gerrymandered District Map "Politicians in Raleigh will no longer be able to rig our elections through partisan gerrymandering." Read more |
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'Flat-Out Lying': Critics Reject Biden Effort to Re-Write History on His Support for US Invasion of Iraq "Biden claiming to have been against the Iraq War from the start is arguably the most outlandish lie any Democrat has told this campaign." Read more |
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As Aerial Footage of Devastated Bahamas Emerges, Campaigners Ask How Much Destruction and Death Before Global Climate Action Taken? "Bahamians have paid a devastating price for a crisis fossil fuel billionaires created. This isn't right." Read more |
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'Not Enough': Critics Say Walmart Must Go Beyond Corporate PR and Half-Measures on Guns "We can't rely on corporations to stop gun violence." Read more |
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Watch Dying Activist Ady Barkan's "Heartfelt" and "Moving" Conversation With Bernie Sanders on the Fight for Medicare for All "You have been an integral part of the struggle to make clear that healthcare is a human right," Sanders told Barkan Read more |
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As #ClearTheLists Raises Money for Classroom Supplies, Advocates Bemoan That Movement Even Needs to Exist "Narratives have changed and that's really good, but we need to see policy change." Read more |
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Despite Reversal for Harvard Student, Deportations Based on US Search of Social Media Denounced as Troubling 'New Normal' Ismail Ajjawi was turned away at Logan International Airport last week when he arrived to attend Harvard; border agents cited social media posts by his friends as the reason Read more |
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New Report Warns of Deepfakes and Social Media Disinformation Campaigns That Aim to Undermine 2020 Election The NYU expert who authored the report says social media companies "have to take responsibility for the way their sites are misused." Read more |
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'Naked Attack on the Free Press': Trump Allies Reportedly Raising $2 Million for Campaign to Discredit Journalists "Intimidating reporters to influence coverage is a tactic of dictators and has no place here," said Sen. Jeff Merkley Read more |
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'Endemic Impunity': UN Report on Yemen Says United States, France, and Britain May Be Complicit in War Crimes "Five years into the conflict, violations against Yemeni civilians continue unabated, with total disregard for the plight of the people and a lack of international action to hold parties to the conflict accountable." Read more |
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At Least 5 Dead in Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian Unleashes 'One of Most Catastrophic 24-Hour Periods of Weather in Recorded World History' "We are in the midst of a historic tragedy," said Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis Read more |