All News Articles for 2020-06-16
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'Make America Grim Again': With Only 14% Very Happy, Americans Haven't Been This Sad Overall Since Nixon The survey was taken as the country faced its worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression and as the nationwide uprising over racial injustice began. Read more |
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'Unprecedented' Border Clash Between China and India Leaves at Least 20 Dead as Dangerous Tensions Rise "It is an extraordinary escalation. No shots fired for 45 years, and then at least 20 soldiers dead in one evening in rock-throwing and bludgeoning." Read more |
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Independent Probe Finds NOAA Officials Violated Ethics Rules by Bowing to Trump Foolishness During 'Sharpiegate' The report comes as White House and state officials have been accused of manipulating scientific data regarding Covid-19 deaths and infections. Read more |
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'We Must Act Now': 180 House Democrats Urge Pelosi to Save Clean Energy Industry 'Decimated' by Pandemic The lawmakers' letter came as a new analysis showed at least 620,590 clean energy workers in the U.S. lost jobs from March through May. Read more |
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'Just What the Doctor Ordered': Bill Would Protect Whistleblowers Who Sound Alarm Over Abuse of Covid-19 Relief Funds "This is a major step forward." Read more |
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In Authoritarian Tirade, Trump Claims Americans 'Want Law and Order' Policing Whether They Know It or Not Civil rights advocates slammed the president's law enforcement executive order as "a band-aid for a bullet wound." Read more |
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Failed For-Profit Healthcare 'Will Continue to Compound Pandemic's Effect' in US, Warns Nobel Economist "Anything is better than pretending that the market can deliver healthcare—because it can't," says laureate Angus Deaton. Read more |
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Demonstrator Shot in New Mexico as Right-Wing Militia Attacks Protest Over Monument to Brutal Conquistador "These extremists cannot be allowed to silence peaceful protests or inflict violence." Read more |
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47 UN Human Rights Experts Condemn US Support for Israel's 'Unlawful' Annexation Plan "Accountability and an end to impunity must become an immediate priority for the international community," the experts wrote. "Palestinians and Israelis deserve no less." Read more |
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'This Is Mass Murder': Covid-19 Deaths in US Prisons Have Risen by 73% the Past Month The number of known cases in the facilities has doubled since mid-May to over 68,000. Read more |
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'Our Fight Is Not Over,' Say Green Groups After Supreme Court Clears Hurdle for Fracked Gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline "We will take it to the courts, to the halls of power, and to the streets." Read more |
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Leading US Retirees 'Like Lambs to the Slaughter,' Trump Labor Dept. Quietly Offers Up 401k Plans to Private Equity Vultures "Private equity firms will now be allowed to access—and skim fees off of—the $9 trillion in 100 million workers' 401(k) plans and IRAs." Read more |
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'No Words Can Describe': Ilhan Omar's Father, Nur Omar Mohamed, Dies of Coronavirus Complications Omar arrived in the U.S. with her father in 1995 as a Somalian refugee, and was elected to Congress 23 years later. Read more |
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Time to 'Reinvest in People' and 'Cut Weapons of War': Barbara Lee Unveils Plan to Cut Up to $350 Billion From Pentagon "Redundant nuclear weapons, off-books spending accounts, and endless wars in the Middle East don't keep us safe." Read more |
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Pence Urges Governors to Parrot Trump's Lie That Spikes in Covid-19 Cases Largely Caused by Increase in Testing "This dishonesty has caused increased deaths and will cause more. They are effectively killing people for perceived political gain." Read more |