All News Articles for 2021-01-04
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'The Power Is Literally in Your Hands': Biden Ties Georgia Runoff Races to $2,000 Relief Checks "If you send Jon and the reverend to Washington, those $2,000 checks will go out the door, restoring hope and decency and honor for so many people who are struggling right now." Read more |
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Despite 'Meager Numbers,' Trump Administration Removes Gray Wolves From Endangered Species List "The delisting of gray wolves is the latest causality of the Trump administration's willful ignorance of the biodiversity crisis and scientific facts." Read more |
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'Good': Billionaire-Backed Effort to Upend US Healthcare System Collapses After Just 3 Years "For-profit corporations ruined our healthcare system. They're not going to be the ones to fix it." Read more |
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Federal Judge Rejects Attempt by Wisconsin Trump Allies to Overturn Biden Win Their argument, said the judge, "lies somewhere between a willful misreading of the Constitution and fantasy." Read more |
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Proud Boys Sued by Historic Black Church After Leader Admits to Burning Black Lives Matter Sign During DC Rally Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said the December 12 "hate crime" was meant to "terrorize Black people." Read more |
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'Violence Is Being Incited': DC Braces for Trump-Endorsed Anti-Democracy Rally on Wednesday As the nation's capitol prepares for what Mayor Muriel Bowser called "a serious threat to our democracy," Police Chief Robert Contee said "bringing firearms into our city... will not be tolerated." Read more |
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Mexico's Lopez Obrador Wants to Give Asylum to Julian Assange "Assange is a journalist and deserves a chance," the Mexican president said Monday. Read more |
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'Trump Has Not Acted Alone': House Dem Demands Criminal Probe Into President—and GOP Enablers Congressman Don Beyer of Virginia argued audio of Trump's call with Georgia's secretary of state "makes Nixon's 'smoking gun' tape sound tame." Read more |
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Chicago Teachers Union Members Take Stand Against Unsafe School Conditions "We're afraid for our lives. We don't want to lose our jobs. The fear of losing our jobs is real," said one teacher. "But the fear of this virus is greater than that fear." Read more |
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Google Workers Form Union to 'Promote Solidarity, Democracy, and Social and Economic Justice' The tech titan "has a responsibility to its thousands of workers and billions of users to make the world a better place," two of the union's leaders wrote. "We can help build that world." Read more |
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'His Biggest—And Likely Most Disastrous—Stunt Yet'? Experts Warn a Desperate Trump May Attack Iran "It may be the case that his most erratic, most reckless lashing out is yet to come." Read more |
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Threat to Journalism Remains, Warn Critics, After Assange Extradition Rejected Solely Due to Brutal US Prison System "That a British court has ruled that the U.S. prison system is too barbaric to guarantee the safety of Assange tells its own story. But this is about something much bigger than Assange: it's about journalism, the free press, and... the ability to expose atrocities committed by the world's last... Read more |
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'A Huge Relief': British Judge Rejects Trump Administration Attempt to Extradite Julian Assange "Let this be the end of it," said whistleblower Edward Snowden. Read more |
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'Open-and-Shut Federal (and State) Crime': Members of Congress Demand Prosecution of Trump for Election Tampering "We must hold him fully accountable, even after he leaves office. There must be justice." Read more |