All News Articles for 2020-11-09
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Lawyers Can't Reunite 666 Seized Migrant Children With Parents—121 More Than Previously Believed The children were separated from their families under the Trump administration's widely condemned "zero tolerance" immigration policy. Read more |
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'Exactly What We Want to See': Overhaul Expected to Strengthen Power of Congressional Progressive Caucus These "really crucial changes," said one advocate, "are setting the Congressional Progressive Caucus up to be the power brokers everyone needs them to be if Congress is going to deliver on literally any issue." Read more |
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'A Dangerous Attack on Our Democracy': McConnell Backs Trump's Refusal to Concede to Biden "There is no decisive pool of 'illegal' ballots, and Republican Party messaging on this score is at best a cynical attempt to delegitimize a decisive presidential defeat." Read more |
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'Now Do #TarSands': TD Bank Urged to Go Further on Climate After Nixing Arctic Projects "It no longer makes business sense for banks to back polluting projects, and those that plan for a low-carbon future will prosper in the economies of tomorrow." Read more |
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From Police Violence at Home to Killing Civilians in Unending Wars Abroad, US Faces Human Rights Reckoning at UN An ACLU leader urged the incoming administration to "take bold actions on day one to reverse President Trump's harmful policies." Read more |
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Biden Urged to Be #ClimatePresident by Taking These 10 'Game-Changing' Steps in First 10 Days in Office "Don't let anyone tell you that Biden's hands are tied on climate action without the Senate." Read more |
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99% of Green New Deal Co-Sponsors Won Their Races This Cycle: Analysis "Saying progressive policies held Democrats back from expanding their House majority/taking the Senate just doesn't hold water with data available so far." Read more |
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'Far Past Time' to Abolish the Electoral College, Progressives Say as Colorado Approves National Popular Vote Compact "Our nation spent a stressful four days wondering who our next president would be, despite the clear fact that Joe Biden won the popular vote by millions." Read more |
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Trump GSA Appointee Accused of Sabotaging 'Peaceful Transfer of Power' by Refusing to Sign Off on 'Critical' Transition Document "While there will be legal disputes requiring adjudication, the outcome is sufficiently clear that the transition process must now begin," urged the nonpartisan Center for Presidential Transition. Read more |
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'We Need a #PeoplesVaccine': After Hopeful Findings From Pfizer, Campaigners Demand Suspension of Patents "This is a race against time and we cannot allow the pursuit of profit to triumph over human need," said Heidi Chow of Global Justice Now. Read more |
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'Historic Day': Jubilation as Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia One Year After Military Coup Twelve months after being driven into exile by right-wing forces, socialist former president Evo Morales was "received by the very social movements who defeated the coup and restored democracy." Read more |
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With Covid-19 Cases Surging, Experts Urge US Public to Re-Double Efforts to Stop Spread—and Temper Expectations for Pfizer's Vaccine " The public needs to know that the best way to prepare for this vaccine is to wear a mask." Read more |
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'Many Workers Will Suffer': Days After Election, Trump Quietly Freezes Wages of Farm Laborers "The Trump administration is trying to get a lot of stuff like this out the door ASAP." Read more |
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'Truly Unconscionable': In Desperation Mode, Trump Planning to Hold Rallies and Display Obits of Supposedly Dead Voters "Refusing to concede and launching a bunch of lawsuits is one thing. Staging big rallies to gin up his supporters against the president-elect seems like an order of magnitude worse." Read more |