All News Articles for 2019-09-23
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'Unfortunate But Not Surprising': Sanders Responds to Report Biden-Linked Firm Poll Testing Attacks on Medicare for All A senior advisor to the Sanders campaign said it was "disgusting" that former vice president's campaign would be "echoing bogus GOP talking points." Read more |
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Reports of Wedding Party Bombing Indicate US Forces Have Massacred at Least 70 Afghan Civilians in One Week "Don't kill us," said one local who survived the recent bombing in Helmand province. Read more |
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In 'Tremendous Victory for the Public,' Federal Appeals Court Quashes FCC Attempt to Weaken Media Ownership Rules "The FCC must now do the job it's long refused to do: properly weigh all of the evidence showing the impact of media consolidation on local communities." Read more |
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To Stop the Worst Effects of the Climate Crisis, Report Says 'The Level of Ambition Needs to be Tripled'—At Minimum The new U.N. report referencing increasing impacts of the climate crisis underscores the need for urgent action. Read more |
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'We Want to Show Them We Are Serious': 16 Youth Activists File Suit Against Major Nations for Failing to Act on Climate Crisis "The climate crisis is a children's rights crisis." Read more |
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Turning Back on Climate Summit, Trump Hosts 'Religious Freedom' Session at UN "It's most importantly a snub to the young people pleading for action on climate change." Read more |
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'How Dare You!': Greta Thunberg Rages at 'Fairytales of Eternal Economic Growth' at UN Climate Summit "Entire ecosytems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money." Read more |
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'If a House Is on Fire, You Don't Add Fuel': 530 Groups Back Call to Rapidly Phase Out Fossil Fuels Worldwide Widespread support for the Lofoten Declaration comes as world leaders meet in NYC for the U.N. Climate Action Summit. Read more |
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Activists Unfurl 'Exxon Knew, Make Them Pay' Banner Outside Meeting of Fossil Fuel CEOs Steps From UN Climate Summit "People are here in front, making it clear—#ExxonKnew about climate impacts and still put profit over people." Read more |
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'The Planet We Love Is Under Attack': #ShutDownDC Protesters Blockade Capital Streets to Demand Climate Action "The decisions that are made in this town don't just affect the people in the U.S., they affect the globe every day." Read more |
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'Your Presence Has Always Been a Calamity': Iranian President Demands US Get Out of Persian Gulf "The farther you go from our region and our nations, the more security would come for our region." Read more |
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Trump Condemned for Moving to 'Roll Back the Clock' on Women's Rights as Letter Exposes Attempt to Form Anti-Abortion UN Coalition "It's not just abortion that they care about, they care about women's ability to exercise autonomy over their bodies and about denying them critical access to the services they need." Read more |
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Progressives to Pelosi as Trump Lawlessness Mounts: 'Stop Playing Craven Political Games' and Impeach "At this point, the bigger national scandal isn't the president's lawbreaking behavior—it is the Democratic Party's refusal to impeach him for it." Read more |