All News Articles for 2019-12-20
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ICC to Probe Alleged War Crimes in Palestine The court's chief prosecutor says "there are no substantial reasons to believe that an investigation would not serve the interests of justice." Read more |
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'A Win for the Planet!': Dutch Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling Mandating Climate Action The nonprofit that brought the case called it "a groundbreaking decision that confirms that individual governments must do their fair share to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." Read more |
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Schumer Revealed as Key Industry Ally in Defeat of Effort to Curb Surprise Billing It was one of a series of lobbying victories by the healthcare industry in 2019 bolstered by top Democrats. Read more |
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Trump Lashes Out at Evangelical Magazine After It Calls for His Ouster The editorial in Christianity Today called Trump's Twitter feed "a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused." Read more |
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'Deeply Disturbing': Indian Minister to Cancel Meeting With US Lawmakers Over Rep. Jayapal's Kashmir Criticism "What are they hiding in Kashmir?" Read more |
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'Monstrous': Docs Show Canadian Mounties Wanted Snipers Ready to Shoot Indigenous Land Defenders Blockading Pipeline In response to the exclusive Guardian report, critics called the actions of Canadian authorities "abhorrent and unconscionable." Read more |
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'I Was Wrong': Bernie Sanders Admits Barbara Lee Only Member of Congress in 2001 Who Had it Right on Afghan War "Politicians never ever ever say that. Ever." Read more |
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Making Spirited Case for Universal Programs, Sanders Defends Medicare for All From Biden's Right-Wing Talking Points "Sanders making a straightforward case for universality is good. This is the kind of rhetoric Democrats have been afraid to voice for decades." Read more |
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Amid Impeachment Furor, GOP 'Hijacking' of Courts Continues as McConnell Rams Through 12 More Lifetime Trump Judges "Trump's hijacking of our judiciary will be his most enduring legacy, and it will continue to threaten everything progressives care about long after he leaves office." Read more |
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Warren and Sanders Take on Buttigieg Over Big Donors: 'Billionaires in Wine Caves Should Not Pick the Next President' While Warren arguably had the line of the night, the Vermont senator slammed the "real competition going on" between Biden and Buttigieg over who has the most billionaire supporters. Read more |
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After Telling Moderator Climate Question 'Misses the Mark,' Sanders Says Real Issue Is Will We 'Save the Planet for Our Children and Grandchildren' "Instead of spending $1.8 trillion a year globally on weapons of destruction," said Sanders, "maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy which is climate change." Read more |
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Federal Study on Racial Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Confirms Warnings of Civil Liberties Groups African American and Asian American men were misidentified 100 times as often as white men. Read more |