All News Articles for 2020-05-18
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Ousted Inspector General Was Also Probing Possible Illegal Pompeo-Trump Effort to Force Through Saudi Arms Deal "Since day one, this president has thought he's above the law, above criticism, and can get away with anything—including a fake 'emergency' to sell bombs to Saudi Arabia," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. Read more |
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Climate Campaigners Applaud Biden on Vow to Pull Plug on Keystone XL Permit "We'll need just this kind of climate ambition to make way for a livable planet in the next four years." Read more |
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'Not Just Bad, It's Pathological': While Pushing Big Oil Bailouts, Trump Slaps Wind and Solar Industry With $50 Million in Old Rent Bills " Robbing from a clean energy f uture to prop up the dirty energy past." Read more |
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As Invasive Covid-19 Tracing Technologies Loom, ACLU Unveils Guidelines to Guard Against Overreach The civil liberties group also challenged so-called "immunity passport" proposals that could create "a new health surveillance infrastructure that endangers privacy rights." Read more |
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Rights Groups Demand House Democrats Fix Bill That Gives FBI Power to Search Browser Histories Without Warrant "Collecting this information is as close to reading minds as surveillance can get. It is digital mining of the personal lives of Americans." Read more |
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Bolstering Case for Nationwide Vote-by-Mail, New Study Shows Wisconsin In-Person Election Exploded New Covid-19 Infections While counties with the most in-person polling places on April 7 saw large case spikes in the following weeks, counties that used widespread absentee balloting saw the opposite effect. Read more |
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Teachers Union Says 'Flimsy' CDC Flowchart on School Reopenings Shows Trump Disregard for Student Safety "The reality of reopening school buildings and college campuses is that any missteps could cost lives... Once again, this administration has politics trumping science." Read more |
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'Save the News' Campaign Urges Immediate Covid-19 Relief Funds to Sustain Local Journalism in Time of Crisis "Americans need access to information about their local communities more than ever, and yet layoffs and furloughs are only increasing as this pandemic continues." Read more |
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'National Day of Mourning' Protests This Week to Condemn GOP Failures Amid Mass Suffering Caused by Covid-19 "This should be political suicide. Let's make sure it is." Read more |
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Global Health Experts Caution Against 'Vaccine Nationalism' as Scientists Search for Solution to Pandemic "Either we get through this pandemic together, or we fail. Either we stand together, or we fall apart." Read more |
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Arundhati Roy and Bill McKibben Argue Covid-19 an Opportunity for Humanity to Get Off Dangerous Path If the world is able to "flatten the carbon curve" in the same way it is now desperately trying to flatten the infection rate curve "then people might look back in 50 years at this time and thank us, you know, instead of curse us." Read more |
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'Neither Ironic or Funny': Cell Data Reveals Right-Wing Lockdown Protesters May Be Spreading Covid-19 "The behavior we're seeing at protests carries a high risk of infection," said Dr. Rob Davidson, an emergency care physician and executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare. Read more |
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'One Crisis Doesn't Stop Because Another Starts': 2,000+ Kids' Shoes Form Climate/Covid Protest in London "Many young people feel suffocated by fear of what is to come," says an Extinction Rebellion Youth activist, "and now with this pandemic maybe others will start to understand our fear for the future." Read more |
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House Democrats Demand Trump State Department Turn Over 'Secret Plan' to Slash Social Security Amid Pandemic "The idea that we would ask Americans to sell out their retirement and long-term security for assistance during a crisis is insane." Read more |
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'More Naked Corruption': Inspector General Ousted by Trump Was Investigating Whether Pompeo Used Staffer for Personal Chores "There is no form of corruption too small for this administration. Leave nothing behind. They'll take the doorknobs too if they can figure out how to unscrew them." Read more |
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Trump Calls Legally Protected Whistleblowing a 'Racket' as Fired Scientist Rips President's Failed Covid-19 Response "How can federal employees feel safe to speak up when the president wants to take away their legal protections?" Read more |