All News Articles for 2020-10-14
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Nearly 5.2 Million Americans Will Be Disenfranchised in 2020 Election Due to Felony Convictions: Study Black and Latinx people are disproportionately affected by disenfranchisement laws, which are still in effect in most U.S. states. Read more |
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Planet Earth, Says NOAA, Just Had Its Hottest September on Record "We've broken the climate system. We are in a climate emergency." Read more |
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'Totally Under Control': New, Secretly-Filmed Documentary Details Trump's Colossal Covid-19 Failures "We, the scientists, knew what to do for the pandemic response," says former federal vaccine expert Dr. Rick Bright in the film. "It is time to lay our careers on the line and push back." Read more |
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Sen. Warren Slams Disney for 28,000 Fired Workers Amid Stock Buyback Spree "It appears that—prior to, and during the pandemic—Disney took good care of its top executives and shareholders—and now is hanging its front-line workers out to dry." Read more |
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'Millions of Real People's Lives Are at Stake': As Pelosi Battles White House, Ro Khanna Says Democrats Can Win Morally—and Politically "It is in the interest of progressive Democrats to show that government can be a force of good, and this is the time for us to act." Read more |
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Imperial Irony: New York Times Announces Halt to 'At War' Section Even as Endless US War Continues "The forever war outlasting the NYT section on the forever war is a very forever war thing to happen." Read more |
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'No Time to Lose': New Study Shows 50% Coral Decline on Great Barrier Reef "We expect this decline to continue," predicted one of the study's authors, who said that unless urgent climate action is taken, "the reef will be unrecognizable." Read more |
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WATCH: Sunrise Movement Makes 'Most Explicit Pitch to Fossil Fuel Workers' Yet With Ad for US House Candidate Mike Siegel " What use is a country if you can't work to better the lives of yourself and your neighbors?" Read more |
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Issued 'When No One Was Looking,' Critics Warn New Trump Guidance on Eviction Moratorium a Blow to Renter Protections and Public Health "Public health evidence is clear: Eviction increases Covid-19 deaths and spread." Read more |
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Democratic Lawmakers Raise Alarm Over Esper's Refusal to Rule Out Deploying Troops During Election "We have not received a direct commitment from Secretary Esper that he will refuse commands from an illegitimate president," lamented Rep. Mikie Sherrill. Read more |
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Public Health Experts Raise Alarm as Trump White House Embraces 'Fringe' Declaration Pushing Herd Immunity "It's being presented as if it's a major alternative view that's held by large numbers of experts in the scientific community. That is not true." Read more |
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Bolstering Public Health Fears, Harvard Study Finds Elevated Airborne Radiation Levels Downwind of US Fracking Sites "If you asked me to go and live downwind [of fracking sites], I would not go," said the lead author of the new study. Read more |
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'We Don't Need a Climate Denier on the Supreme Court': Outrage as Barrett Says She Has No 'Firm Views' on Climate Crisis "If you're neutral on climate change, you're complicit in the collapse of the planetary ecosystem upon which the survival of every living thing depends." Read more |
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'Look for Power in the Shadows': Watch Sheldon Whitehouse Shine Light on 'Dark Money Operation' Behind GOP Supreme Court Takeover "Something is not right around the court. And dark money has a lot to do with it. Special interests have a lot to do with it." Read more |