All News Articles for 2020-12-01
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Expert Panel Advises CDC That US Healthcare Workers and Nursing Home Residents Should Get Covid-19 Vaccine First The country has documented nearly 13.7 million confirmed cases and over 270,000 deaths from the disease, more than any other nation. Read more |
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Israel Releases Mays Abu Ghosh, Palestinian Student Jailed for Membership in Leftist Campus Group Abu Ghosh—imprisoned for 15 months after joining a banned college organization that opposes Israel's illegal occupation—described torture by her jailers. Read more |
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After Months of Obstructing Covid Relief, GOP Has Left 'Children Begging Santa for Their Basic Needs' "We can either have billionaires, or we can make sure all children are fed, with warm beds to sleep in. Pick one. We cannot have both." Read more |
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'I Guess He's the Next One to Be Fired': Even William Barr Says No Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud The Trump-appointee's comments came as the president's reelection campaign filed yet another lawsuit challenging the election outcome. Read more |
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'Protect Us': Colorado High School Students Post Video Pleading With Local Authorities to Ban Fracking "We shouldn't be afraid for our health when we step outside our own houses," says one of the students in the video. Read more |
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Without Climate Action, Number of Low-Income Homes Affected by Flooding Projected to Triple By 2050, Study Shows "We don't train our attention on these neighborhoods but many of them are already suffering significantly from these problems." Read more |
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Warren Presses Biden to Enact 'Effective Economic Stimulus' With Single Pen Stroke: Cancel Student Debt "All on his own," Warren said during a hearing with Fed chairman Jerome Powell, the incoming president "will have the ability to administratively cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt." Read more |
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Tlaib Says Lack of Popular Stimulus Checks in Bipartisan Relief Plan Shows 'Disconnect' Between Senate and People "There may not be bipartisan support for an additional check" among Republican and Democratic lawmakers, said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, "but there is support outside of Congress." Read more |
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As Lame-Duck Trump Pushes for Arctic Pillage, Bank of America Latest Bank to Rule Out Drilling in Alaska Wildlife Refuge "Now that every major American bank has stated unequivocally that they will not finance this destructive activity, it should be clearer than ever that any oil company considering participating in Trump's ill-advised lease sale should stay away." Read more |
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'Shameful and Outrageous': New Satellite Data Reveals Brazilian Amazon Deforestation at 12-Year High "Instead of acting to prevent the increase in deforestation, the Bolsonaro government has been denying the reality of the situation, dismantling environmental agencies, and attacking NGOs." Read more |
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Tests Reveal Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Aerial Pesticide Showered Over Millions of Acres in US "These findings shock the conscience." Read more |
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Friends of the Earth vs. Shell: 'Historic Moment' as Climate Movement Takes on Big Oil at The Hague "This is actually 'the People versus Shell,' a company that has got away with greenwashing for too long." Read more |
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Warning of International Law Violations, Rights Groups Demand Halt to Trump Weapons Sale to UAE "In Yemen, airstrikes by the Saudi- and Emirati-led Coalition are responsible for the majority of civilian casualties," 29 groups write in a new letter. Read more |
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268,000 People Died and Scott Atlas Shrugged: Trump's "Most Dangerous" Covid Adviser Quits Atlas brought no expertise in infectious diseases but plenty of misinformation to the position. Read more |
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With Rent Due and Evictions Looming, Warren Rips McConnell for 'Disgraceful' Obstruction "McConnell and the Senate GOP still haven't reinstated the $600 unemployment checks, extended unemployment programs, passed rental assistance, or anything else in months to help struggling families during this crisis." Read more |
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'Utterly Arbitrary and Unlawful': Farmworker Groups Sue to Block Trump Wage Freeze An attorney for Farmworker Justice warned that, if allowed to take effect, the wage freeze would cause "grave harm to some of the most vulnerable workers in the nation." Read more |
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House Democrats Demand Increase in IRS Funding to Go After 'Wealthy Tax Cheats'—Like Donald Trump "Millionaire tax dodgers like Donald Trump get away with paying little to no federal income tax in part because IRS funding has dropped over 20% since 2010." Read more |
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'All About the Grift': Trump Reportedly Raises Over $150 Million for Non-Existent 'Election Defense Fund' "Small donors who give to Trump thinking they are financing an 'official election defense fund' are in fact helping pay down the Trump campaign's debt or funding his post-presidential political operation." Read more |