All News Articles for 2020-12-03
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Trump's "Eyes and Ears" at DOJ Reportedly Banned From Building After Trying to Get Inside Information on Election Fraud The news report broke as the White House announced the appointment of the official, Heidi Stirrup, to the board of visitors to the United States Air Force Academy. Read more |
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Director of National Intelligence Admits Government Used Section 215 to Track Browsing History After initially denying the practice, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe admitted the government engaged in activity "that could be characterized" as tracking website visits. Read more |
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'You Alone Can Save His Life': Edward Snowden Urges Trump to Pardon Julian Assange "Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange," the NSA whistleblower tweeted. Read more |
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200+ Health Experts Urge Biden to Reduce 'Dangerously Overcrowded' Prisons During Pandemic "We need to decarcerate to keep people in these places and in the surrounding communities safe." Read more |
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'Last Decade to Save the Planet': Group Puts Forth 50 Bold Climate Actions for Biden "President-elect Biden said his administration wouldn't just tinker around the edges, but instead would lock in progress no future president can roll back. Our recommendations are a roadmap for doing exactly that." Read more |
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Facing Opposition From Progressives, Gina Raimondo Withdraws From Consideration as Biden's HHS Chief "We're in the middle of the worst public health crisis in modern history—it is absolutely amazing that a person with this particular record is even in CONTENTION for the nation's top healthcare job," said one journalist. Read more |
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Campaigners Put Forth 'Cabinet Climate Test' for President-Elect Biden "We demand an executive branch ready to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and face the climate crisis at scale." Read more |
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Indian Farmers Continue Historic Protests After 250 Million People Rise Up Against Modi's Neoliberal Policies "The government side [was] not ready to listen to any of our demands and they have left us with no choice but to protest on the streets," said one farmer-organizer. Read more |
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Just Days Before Exit, Trump Plans 'Going Out of Business' Sale With Arctic Drilling Leases "The Interior Department's Arctic Refuge leasing process has been flawed from the outset, ignoring science and Indigenous voices throughout." Read more |
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Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Favor Raising Taxes on Incomes Over $400K A majority of respondents—regardless of political affiliation—also back tuition-free college for students whose families earn less than $125,000 annually. Read more |
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As Pandemic Soars to Deadly New Heights, 'Conservative Ideology Itself' Blamed for Disastrous US Response "The conservative belief that government is more often the problem than the solution," argue two progressive analysts, "made it practically inevitable that Republicans would render their own government ineffective." Read more |
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Google Illegally Surveilled, Interrogated, and Fired Workers Who Tried to Organize, NLRB Says "For a company with the slogan 'don't be evil,' the findings are pretty damning." Read more |
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In Open Letter to Jeff Bezos, Over 400 Lawmakers From Around the World Join #MakeAmazonPay Campaign "We stand ready to act in our respective legislatures to support the movement that is growing around the world to Make Amazon Pay." Read more |
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Demands for Probe, Possible Criminal Charges as Trump Accused of Withholding Data Needed to Reunite Families "Unconscionable. Who made the call to not release this information sooner?" Read more |
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With Pandemic a 'Tipping Point,' UN Warns 1 Billion More People Headed for Extreme Poverty by 2030 Unless strong and meaningful action is taken now, including major social investments and a Green New Deal-style program, the Covid-19 crisis will make an already dire economic situation much worse. Read more |
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Sanders Slams McConnell for Pushing '3-Martini Lunch' Deduction and Zero Relief for 26 Million Hungry Americans "The Republicans l-o-v-e corporate socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest. Ain't gonna happen." Read more |
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Ignoring Warnings His Election Lies Could Get People Killed, Trump Posts 46-Minute Rant Full of 'Unhinged' Falsehoods "Georgia elections director yesterday: Trump's rhetoric is going to get people killed. Trump today: here's 46 minutes of unhinged conspiracy theories." Read more |