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Critics Slam Kushner for Arguing Inexperience Excuses Russian Contacts Critics of Kushner are raising doubts about his explanation of his meetings with Russians during the 2016 campaign. In a prepared statement released ahead of his meeting with lawmakers Monday, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor denied colluding with Russia during Trump's... Read more |
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In Announcing 'Better Deal' Platform, Dems Admit Status Quo Not Working With a live-streamed presentation and a slate of new messaging on Monday, Democratic leaders attempted to articulate for the first time since their party's 2016 losses an agenda that "works for everyone...not just the elites and special interests." As the local Winchester Star reported , House... Read more |
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Trump: Sessions 'Beleaguered,' Schiff 'Sleazy,' and Maybe Giuliani Should Be AG President Donald Trump continued taking shots at Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday, calling him "beleaguered" and saying Sessions should be investigating his former political rival, Hillary Clinton. Trump wrote on his @realonaldtrump account: "So why aren't the Committees and investigators,... Read more |
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With Trumpcare Vote Looming, Medicare For All Supporters Set to March With grassroots support for Medicare for All experiencing an unprecedented surge in the face of Republican efforts to leave 22 million more Americans without health insurance , Our Revolution and dozens of other progressive organizations are set to march on Monday to demand that lawmakers back... Read more |
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Scaramucci Has Anonymous Source Who Told Him Russians "Maybe Didn't" Hack 2016 Election (Okay, He Admits, It Was President Trump) In addition to other headline-generating statements over the weekend ( here and here ), President Donald Trump's new communications director Anthony Scaramucci also on Sunday claimed he had a source—but said "I won't tell you who"—who communicated to him that maybe it wasn't Russian government... Read more |
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Video from Underwater Robot Shows Melted Nuclear Fuel in Bowels of Fukushima Reactor Since disaster in 2011, this is the first time plant operator has found something likely to be melted fuel Read more |
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Will Trump Let the White House Bring Back Cameras? President Donald Trump's new communications director says he's "personally" in favor of on-camera White House briefings, but ultimately the decision will be up to the president. On CNN 's "State of the Union" Sunday, Wall Street financier-turned-White House communications director Anthony... Read more |
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Connecting McCain's Tragic Diagnosis to Trumpcare 'Is the Goddamn Point' "It isn't in poor taste, and it isn't political opportunism—it's the goddamn point." Read more |
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Donald Trump and the Coming Fall of American Empire Even as President Donald Trump faces ever-intensifying investigations into the alleged connections between his top aides and family members and powerful Russian figures, he serves as commander in chief over a U.S. military that is killing an astonishing and growing number of civilians. Under Trump... Read more |
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"Full Transparency," Says Scaramucci, I'm Deleting My Past Public Statements Anthony Scaramucci, the newly-appointed communications director for President Donald Trump, wants the world to know he's only selectively deleting old tweets so his past public statements won't be "distraction" as he assumes his new role at the White House. And so we wrote this headline about it... Read more |
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With Sessions Under Renewed Fire, Trump Claims 'Complete Power to Pardon' Any attempt by Trump to pardon his way out of stewing controversy, says one critic, would create a "constitutional crisis that would make Watergate look like a minor event." Read more |
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Environmentalists Urge Democrats to Join Sanders in Opposing Dirty Energy Bill As a nation, our job is to move away from fossil fuels toward sustainable energy and energy efficiency,' says Sanders. 'This bill does the opposite.' Read more |
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Your Guide to Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci: Trump's New Commander of Communication The Trump administration on Friday officially announced that Anthony Scaramucci—a former Goldman Sachs executive who describes himself simply as an "American entrepeneur"—will be the new White House communications director. At an afternoon briefing, Scaramucci spoke with reporters for the first... Read more |
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Protests in Poland as Right-Wing Ruling Party Dismantles Democracy Tens of thousands poured into the streets in Poland Thursday night, condemning proposed laws that would dramatically weaken the nation's judicial system, just two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump visited the country and praised its commitment to freedom and democracy, speaking to "an... Read more |
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Trump Furthers War on Science With 'Illegal' Nomination of Climate Denier for Top USDA Scientist As the administration continues to take a "wrecking ball" to science, President Donald Trump on Wednesday officially nominated climate change denier , conservative talk radio host, and former Trump campaign co-chair Sam Clovis to the top science job at the United States Department of Agriculture (... Read more |
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Six Months After Women's March, Invigorated Resistance Sees Impact A new Pew Research poll finds that since President Donald Trump's inauguration, Americans, particularly women, have become more engaged in the political system by contacting elected officials, attending demonstrations, and even paying more attention to political news. Fifty-eight percent of women... Read more |
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Message to Democrats: Get on Board With Medicare For All or Go Home Amid surging support for Medicare for All at the grassroots—which can be seen both in recent polls and at anti-Trumpcare protests, where demonstrators have brandished signs declaring "healthcare is a human right"—activists, physicians, and policy experts are imploring Democratic lawmakers to either... Read more |
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Spicey Is Out: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Resigns White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned on Friday, the New York Times first reported . His departure was reportedly in response to President Donald Trump's appointment of Anthony Scaramucci to White House communications director. Scaramucci is a Wall Street financier and was a campaign... Read more |
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Red Alert: Team Trump Unveils Anti-Planet, Anti-Worker Corporate Wish List Amid swirling controversy over the burgeoning investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged Russia ties, groups are raising the alarm after the Trump administration on Thursday quietly unveiled its plan to roll back hundreds of Obama-era regulations aimed at shielding workers and the planet... Read more |
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Amid Ongoing Israeli Crackdown, Three Palestinians Killed in Al-Aqsa Mosque Protests At least three Palestinians reportedly have been killed by gunfire, and more than a hundred injured, in clashes with Israeli forces on Friday, during large-scale protests against enhanced security measures at the Al-Aqsa mosque, according to reports from the Ma’an News Agency and Al-Jazeera . "An... Read more |
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As Mueller Probe Widens, Trump Team Exploring Presidential Pardon Powers According to a Washington Post report released Friday, President Donald Trump appears to be preparing for the worst as special counsel Robert Mueller investigates his alleged ties to Russia and those of members of his administration. The president is reportedly angling to build a case against... Read more |
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Defending Public Schools, Demonstrators Greet Betsy DeVos at ALEC Annual Meeting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was met by hundreds of protesters in Denver on Thursday, where she spoke at the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. Demonstrations outside the Hyatt Regency included teachers and parents who disapprove of DeVos's agenda, particularly... Read more |
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Proposed Law Seeks to Reform System That Jails People Just for Being Poor Civil liberties and criminal justice reform groups are celebrating the introduction of a new bill in the U.S. Senate on Thursday that would overhaul the nation's money bail system which critics have long decried for incarcerating people regardless of guilt or innocence but simply because of their... Read more |
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Worker Wages Flat, But Since 1978 CEO Pay Has Soared by 'Outrageous' 937% New analysis shows how corporate bosses rake in huge salaries and bonuses as inequality continues to soar. "Simply put, money that goes to the executive class is money that does not go to other people." Read more |
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Warren Flunks Trump: Report Card Details Broken Promise to 'Drain Swamp' Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a former law professor, just flunked President Donald Trump. "This report makes it clear: Trump's army of lobbyists are more interested in lining the pockets of their long-time employers and corporate buddies than in making life better for working families." —Sen... Read more |
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NYT Trump Interview Makes Waves, But Did Reporters Go Too Easy? Though an explosive interview with President Donald Trump conducted by the New York Times published Wednesday evening resulted in breaking news bulletins across the media and provided an inside look at Trump's state of mind regarding current events, including healthcare, some in the journalistic... Read more |
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After Exxon Fined for Sanctions Violations, Calls for Rex Tillerson to Resign "It's time Rex Tillerson step down or be removed," said Gigi Kellett of Corporate Accountability International, following an announcement on Thursday that ExxonMobil will pay $2 million for violating U.S. sanctions against Russian officials while the now-secretary of state was the company's CEO. "... Read more |
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'Don't Let Up': Progressive Groups Warn Trumpcare Fight Still Far From Over Over the past several days, Trumpcare has suffered a series of crushing defeats, leading many to pronounce the death of GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But while Trumpcare is certainly on the ropes following Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's announcement that the bill lacks... Read more |
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Condemnation Grows for Bipartisan Attack on Free Speech Rights of BDS Supporters A pair of bipartisan bills targeting boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements appear to have widespread support in Congress, to the dismay of civil rights advocates who say the proposals are an attack on free speech. The Israeli Anti-Boycott Act targets the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS)... Read more |
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Watch Live: Bernie Sanders and Al Gore Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hosted former Democratic vice president Al Gore for a live interview on Thursday morning. In addition to talking about Inconvenient Sequel , Gore's forthcoming follow-up to his groundbreaking 2007 documentary An Inconvenient Truth —both centered on the issues of climate... Read more |
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'Message Loud and Clear' Says NAACP After Latest Trump Snub President Donald Trump's decision to decline an invitation to attend the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's 108th annual convention, "underscores the harsh fact: we have lost—we've lost the will of the current Administration to listen to issues facing the Black community... Read more |
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New Poll Shows Nation Moving Left on Healthcare, Embracing Medicare for All "Policy institutions need to work hard to hammer out the details of a single-payer plan, and the Democratic party needs to stop fumbling around incompetently for a positive vision and instead unify behind the one already supported by the overwhelming majority of its voters." Read more |
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'Unbelievable': Trump Slams Sessions' Recusal; Warns Mueller to Steer Clear of Finances In an interview with the New York Times released Wednesday evening—with remarks described as "insane" and "unbelievable"—President Donald Trump openly admits he would not have appointed Jeff Sessions, a loyal campaign surrogate, to be his attorney general if he'd known Sessions would ultimately... Read more |
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After Six Months, A Detailed Look at 'Giant Bait and Switch' Trump Presidency It has been six long months since Donald Trump's inauguration, and unsurprisingly, the president has not parlayed his populist campaign promises into policy. In fact, he has often done the exact opposite— earning himself the lowest approval rating of any president in the past 70 years. "Giant... Read more |
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'A Dark Moment': Voting Rights Groups Condemn Trump's Election Commission Civil rights advocates are blasting the first meeting of President Donald Trump's so-called "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" which was held Wednesday to begin its supposed mission of assessing "the registration and voting processes used in Federal elections." Critics say the... Read more |
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Children Among Civilian Dead in Latest US-Backed Saudi Coalition Airstrike in Yemen The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday reported that an airstrike carried out by the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen killed 20 civilians—including women and children—who were fleeing violence in their home province. "The people of Yemen are being subjected to deprivation,... Read more |
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Trump's NAFTA Plan Looks a Lot Like Corporate-Friendly Deals He Campaigned Against The Trump administration this week released its objectives for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)—the trade deal Donald Trump referred to as "the worse deal ever"—and while observers say the document includes " a lot of boilerplate language " and is " fairly vague ,"... Read more |
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'The People Deserve Better': Watch Warren Rip Trump's Union-Busting Labor Nominee Raising alarm about the Trump administration's ongoing war on organized labor at a time of stagnant wages and withering employee rights , Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday drilled a top Trump labor pick for spending much of his career "making it harder for workers to join unions." Warren... Read more |
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Amnesty Slams Latest Supreme Court Ruling on 'Cruel and Discriminatory' Muslim Ban The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's appeal to broaden the scope of its " Muslim Ban 2.0 " to grandparents and other close relatives, partially staying a ruling on the travel ban by a federal court in Hawaii. But the High court put U.S. District Court Judge... Read more |
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Study Calls for Rapid "Negative Emissions" as Scientist Warns "Shit's Hitting the Fan" The "shit is hitting is the fan," said noted climate scientist James Hansen, countering "this narrative out there…that we have turned the corner on dealing with the climate problem." Hansen is lead author of a new study that warns that there "is no time to delay" on climate change efforts and... Read more |
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Warnings as GOP Aims to Gut Protections for Endangered Species Conservation groups are issuing warnings on Wednesday as Congressional committees in both chambers considered Republican-backed bills aimed at weakening the Endangered Species Act. "If these dangerous bills are enacted, hundreds of plants and animals will be put on a fast track to extinction." —... Read more |
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"Fundamental Existential Threat": Lawmakers Warned of the Risks of Killer Robots Lawmakers told to keep ethical rules of war in place "lest we unleash on humanity a set of robots that we don't know how to control." Read more |
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The I-Alone-Can-Fix-It President Vows to Make Trumpcare Better at 'Lunchtime' During last year's campaign, he said , "I alone can fix it." "Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated," President Donald Trump declared in February. In April, Trump admitted he thought being president "would be easier." But on Wednesday, with the Republican effort to repeal and replace the... Read more |
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Joining Single-Payer Chorus, Al Gore Says For-Profit System Had Its Chance On the heels of what appeared to be Trumpcare's final collapse on Monday and in the midst of growing grassroots demands for Democratic lawmakers to embrace a "bold" agenda, former Vice President Al Gore said at an event on Tuesday that he believes the United States should move toward a single-payer... Read more |
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Barbara Lee Slams Paul Ryan for Killing Endless War Repeal 'In Dead of Night' "Refusing to debate and vote on our ongoing wars is an abdication of our constitutional responsibility." Read more |
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Trump White House Ridiculously Blames Democrats for Republicans' Repeal Failure At the latest off-camera press briefing Tuesday, Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made clear the official White House position on who is to blame for the Republican failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act: the Democrats. Two proposals for a plan that would replace the law... Read more |
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GOP's Deja Vu Budget Slashes Social Programs to Fund Tax Cuts for Rich House Republicans are under fire for their new 10-year budget blueprint , released Tuesday, that proposes increasing military spending by $72.4 billion while slashing more than $200 billion from social programs. The proposed budget resolution (" Building a Better America "), delayed for weeks by... Read more |
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Resistance Not Enough: Progressive Groups Push Democrats to Back #PeoplesPlatform Following Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's concession on Monday night that Trumpcare is likely dead, progressive groups that played an integral role in rallying opposition to the legislation are now looking to go on the offensive. "We'll keep fighting until everyone has access to healthcare... Read more |
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As 'Repeal Only' Effort Stalls in Senate, Resistance Urges Medicare for All The latest Republican effort to plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act—getting rid of the law without replacing it—appears to have stalled less than 24 hours after being introduced, as three Republican senators have come out against the proposal. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-... Read more |
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Against Warren or Sanders, 2020 Looks Like 'A Lot of Losing' for Trump A new survey published by Public Policy Polling (PPP) on Tuesday finds that in hypothetical match-ups against possible 2020 presidential contenders—including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and former Vice President Joe Biden—President Donald Trump loses every time,... Read more |
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Downplaying Atrocities? Trump Plan to Close 'War Crimes Office' Sparks Concern Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to shut down the U.S.'s office dedicated to advising his department on issues related to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, according to a new report by Foreign Policy . "This sends a strong signal to perpetrators of mass atrocities that the... Read more |
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As 75 Percent of Americans Fear 'Major War' Under Trump, Most Favor Diplomacy A vast majority of Americans are concerned about the United States' potential involvement in a new major war—but most think military action is the wrong way to go about approaching international threats, according to an NBC poll released Tuesday. The survey finds that more than three-quarters of... Read more |
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Seriously? New GOP Budget Would Defund Election Security Agency Despite an ongoing investigation into the hacking of voting systems in more than a dozen states during the 2016 presidential election, the new budget blueprint from House Republicans includes a provision to defund the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) , which the Wall Street Journal notes is "... Read more |
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McConnell Admits Defeat, But Opposition Vows Vigilance Against Trumpcare Zombie Following a long day of civil disobedience that saw hundreds gathered at the Capitol and at senate offices across the country demanding the death of Trumpcare, two Republican senators—Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas— announced Monday night that they would oppose the so-called Better Care... Read more |
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Former Diplomats Urge Tillerson to Keep Refugee Office Where It Belongs In a letter sent to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, more than 50 former U.S. diplomats and foreign policy experts urged the secretary to reject a White House proposal to transfer the government's official refugee office out of the State Department. "Refugee issues are rooted in international... Read more |
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'Kill the Bill, Not Us': Trumpcare Resistance Turns Up the Heat on GOP Senate Republicans have once more indefinitely delayed a vote on Trumpcare, but resistance groups have not used this as an excuse to scale back their efforts to stop the legislation. In fact, progressive organizations and activists across the country are teaming up this week to further ramp up the... Read more |
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Transparency Victory: Trump Forced to Release Mar-a-Lago Visitor Logs Watchdog groups are claiming victory on Monday after the Trump administration said it would release the visitor logs for Mar-a-Lago, the resort estate the president owns in Florida and which he dubbed the "Winter White House" after facing a lawsuit. Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in... Read more |
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To Block Pipeline, Nuns in Court to Defend Cornfield Chapel A group of about 30 Catholic nuns in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who constructed an open-air chapel on the proposed path of a natural gas pipeline, are in court on Monday fighting efforts by the fossil fuel company trying to seize their land. "We honor God by protecting and preserving His... Read more |
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It Took Obama More Than Two Years to Kill This Many Civilians. It Took Trump Less Than Six Months. A new investigation shows that President Donald Trump's bombing campaign against ISIS (the Islamic State) over several months has already led to nearly as many civilian deaths as those overseen by the Obama White House over several years. According to an Airwars investigation conducted for The... Read more |
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This Billionaire Mega-Donor Gets It: The Democrats Need Bernie Sanders "Bernie is talking about inequality. That is the burning issue in the United States." Read more |
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US Inequality Crisis Worst in Industrialized World. Trump Will Make It Worse. "The USA is the wealthiest country in the history of the world, but its level of inequality is also the highest among major industrial countries, leaving tens of millions of working people impoverished—especially women and people of color." Read more |
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Sad! Trump's Six-Month Approval Rating Lowest of Any President in 70 Years President Donald Trump's six-month approval rating is the lowest of any president in the past 70 years. That's according to the results of an ABC News/Washington Post poll published Sunday, which show that 36 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president. Barack Oabama's... Read more |
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Trump Is Endangering Nuclear Deal, Says Iranian Foreign Minister As the United States and Iran mark two years since reaching their landmark deal on nuclear weapons, analysts say Iran has met its obligations stipulated by the agreement—while the U.S. has failed to do so. The deal, forged in July 2015 by Iran and the Obama administration along with Germany and the... Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Denounces Trumpcare as 'The Most Anti-Working Class Legislation Ever' Bernie Sanders spoke in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday where he issued a rallying cry for "a vibrant American democracy," and took aim at the Republicans' healthcare bill, which he called "the most anti-working class legislation" in modern history. The Vermont senator made the remarks at the Iowa... Read more |
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Trumpcare Vote Delayed as White House Promotes Alternative Facts on Bill The Trump Resistance is putting pressure on Senators to block the Republican healthcare bill—even as Senate Republicans announce that they'll delay a vote as Sen. John McCain of Arizona recovers from surgery he had on Friday to remove a blood clot from above his eye. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell... Read more |
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New Lawsuit Aims to Stop Trump's 'Sham Commission' Dead in its Tracks As the White House releases 112 pages of colorful comments—and personal information—after it asked for the public to weigh in on its so-called Election Integrity Commission and received an overwhelmingly negative response, a new lawsuit aims to protect voters' privacy rights by stopping the... Read more |
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A Year After Coup Attempt, Turkish Opposition Accuses Erdogan of Exploiting Crisis In Turkey, while thousands are expected to attend unity marches marking the one-year anniversary of the failed coup attempt in which a military faction attempted to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, opposition party leaders and Erdogan's critics are decrying the leader's authoritarian... Read more |
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#SleevelessFriday: Congresswomen Protest Outdated Dress Code In between votes on Friday, Representative Jackie Speier led a protest demanding that women on Capitol Hill finally be given the right to bare arms. Thank you to all my colleagues who joined me for #SleevelessFriday -- because women have the right to bare arms! pic.twitter.com/PhMEf2v4ZP — Jackie... Read more |
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House Passes Defense Bill Sure to Make 'War Profiteers Rejoice' The U.S. House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a $696 billion defense policy bill —the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—that critics were quick to denounce as yet another vote for "endless wars" and "Pentagon boondoggles." "As always, only spending that benefits the poor is '... Read more |
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Resistance Rallies as So-Called 'Moderate' GOP Senators Decide on Healthcare The Trump Resistance is putting pressure on several so-called moderate Republican lawmakers who could join Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky in refusing to back the latest version of the party's healthcare bill. Collins said Thursday that she objected to the bill on the same... Read more |
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Undeterred by DC Heat Advisory, Women's March Against NRA Begins Several hundred protesters , led by the organizers of January's Women's March , rallied in front of the National Rifle Association's Virginia headquarters Friday, before beginning a two-day 18-mile march to the Department of Justice for a 10am vigil Saturday. Undeterred by the hot weather—D.C. has... Read more |
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Jerry Brown's Climate Plan Just Another 'Handout to Big Oil,' Green Groups Say California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is adamant that his newly unveiled package of legislation aimed at extending his state's existing cap-and-trade program through 2030 is an essential step forward in the fight against climate change, but prominent green groups are characterizing the plan as yet... Read more |
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Rejecting 'Cruel and Discriminatory Policy,' Federal Judge Deals Blow to Muslim Ban 2.0 A federal judge in Hawaii late Thursday dealt a blow to the Trump administration, weakening the so-called Muslim Ban 2.0 . That travel ban, aimed at people from six Muslim-majority countries, cannot be used to bar entry from grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts,... Read more |
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Poll: Most Americans Oblivious, But Not Uncaring, to Overseas Suffering The vast majority of Americans are " oblivious " to the fact that more than 20 million people are on the brink of starvation in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria, according to a recent survey conducted by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). A " staggering " 85 percent of Americans... Read more |
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Women and Men Worldwide Cringe After Trump's Latest Sexist Behavior With President Donald Trump in Paris on Friday for his second day being hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on Bastille Day, people across the world are collectively cringing—and expressing outrage—after a widely-circulated video showed Trump objectifying the French First Lady. Trump was... Read more |
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Jeremy Corbyn Talks With Naomi Klein About Creating a Better World "Social justice isn't copyrighted," U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn told Naomi Klein in an interview published at The Intercept on Thursday. Klein, a jouranlist and author of the new book No Is Not Enough , asked Corbyn about U.K. conservatives trying to co-opt his policies to appeal to... Read more |
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Texas Study Shows How Defunding Planned Parenthood Actually Increased Abortion Rates Illustrating the potential consequences if Republicans fulfill their threat to defund Planned Parenthood nationwide, a new study shows that when Texas slashed state funding for family planning clinics in 2011, the abortion rate among teenagers in the state actually increased. "This certainly isn't... Read more |
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Among Wealthiest Nations, US Healthcare System Comes in Dead Last "Your level of income defines the healthcare you receive far more in the United States than in other wealthy nations." Read more |
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Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: 'Watch Your Back , Bitch' Marc Kasowitz, President Trump's personal attorney on the Russia case, threatened a stranger in a string of profanity-laden emails Wednesday night. The man, a retired public relations professional in the western United States who asked not to be identified, read ProPublica ’s story this week on... Read more |
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Paris Against Trump: Demonstrations Greet US President in France People gathered in central squares and marched in the streets of Paris on Thursday to make their opposition known to President Donald Trump as he arrived in France ahead of Bastille Day celebrations. After a rally at the Place de Etats-Unis, the former home of the U.S. embassy, hundreds of... Read more |
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Can You Say Oligarchy? 75% of Americans Think Wealthiest Have "Too Much" Power Merriam-Webster defines the word as, " government by the few." Read more |
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'Total Garbage': Senate GOP's New Trumpcare Bill Even Worse Than Original As dozens of protestors led by Reverend William Barber crowded the halls of the Capitol and labeled the GOP's healthcare agenda " political murder, " Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a new version of their Trumpcare plan that one critic mockingly described as " new and improved total garbage... Read more |
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With at Least 200 Killed, 2016 Was Deadliest Year Ever for Earth Defenders Last year was the deadliest in history to be an environmental activist, according to a new report that found, on average, nearly four people were killed per week. "Conflicts over the control of land and natural resources were an underlying factor in almost every killing in 2016." –Global Witness... Read more |
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'Slap In the Face': DeVos Under Fire for Including Fringe Men's Rights Group in Sexual Assault Talks Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under fire on Thursday as she holds three meetings on campus sexual assault—including one where she'll hear from a fringe "men's rights" group with a history of harassing sexual assault survivors and placing the blame for sexual and physical violence on victims... Read more |
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Beyond Crazy Tweets, Sanders Says Policies Expose Trump 'For Fraud He Is' In an interview on MSNBC 's "Morning Joe" Thursday morning, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) urged opponents of President Donald Trump to not allow his "stupid tweets" to distract attention from his "destructive" policies, which include a healthcare plan that could strip insurance from 22 million people... Read more |
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#KellyCards: Twitter Users Go Crazy With Kellyanne Conway's 'Unreal' Flashcards "Surely this is what Twitter was invented for." Read more |
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Upside of Trumpcare Ugliness: Medicare For All Goes From 'Pie in the Sky' to 'Inevitable' As Senate Republicans are reportedly set to introduce yet another version of their overwhelmingly despised and " deadly " healthcare plan on Thursday, Medicare for All is experiencing an unprecedented surge in support from both the grassroots and elected officials. "People say Medicare for All is '... Read more |
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It's Too Early, Says Bernie Sanders, But 2020 Run 'Not Off The Table' In a radio interview set to air Thursday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)—currently the nation's the most popular elected lawmaker—alluded to a potential 2020 presidential run. Sanders told the host of "Make It Plain with Mark Thompson" that while it's too early to make a definitive statement about... Read more |
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'People Power Defeating Corporate Power': Atlantic City Says People Have Say Over Their Water Atlantic City, New Jersey's city council on Tuesday easily passed an ordinance that requires a public vote before any sale of the municipal water system by the state. The 8-0 vote, according to Lena Smith of Food and Water Watch, "is about people power defeating corporate power. It is a ringing... Read more |
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Trump Tax Agenda: 'Astonishing' Cuts for Rich Like Him and Hikes for Middle Class As Trumpcare withers away in the Senate in the face of fierce grassroots opposition , two new analyses published on Wednesday show that President Donald Trump's tax agenda—billed as his next big domestic endeavor—would primarily benefit Trump himself and other wealthy Americans while pushing a... Read more |
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Article of Impeachment Introduced Against President Donald Trump This is a developing story and may be updated... An Article of Impeachment against President Donald Trump was officially introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. "The Constitution does not provide for the removal of a President for impulsive, ignorant incompetence. It does... Read more |
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'When Rising Seas Hit Home': Hundreds of Towns Threatened by 2100 As an iceberg the size of Delaware broke away from an ice shelf in Antarctica Wednesday, scientists released findings that up to 668 U.S. communities could face chronic flooding from rising sea levels by the end of the century. "We hope this analysis provides a wake-up call to coastal communities—... Read more |
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Serving Wall Street Predators, GOP Launches Swift Attack on New Rule Protecting Consumers A new rule by a federal watchdog—hailed as having "paramount importance" for protecting consumers from Wall Street predators and curbing corporate abuses—is under direct attack by Republicans just days after being issued. The rule from the successful and broadly-supported Consumer Financial... Read more |
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Citing Free Speech, Dissenters Sue Trump for Blocking Them on Twitter Donald Trump's personal Twitter account is the subject of a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by several users of the platform, including seven people whose accounts were blocked by the president after expressing their views in response to his posts. The lawsuit argues (pdf) that by blocking users from... Read more |
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Viral Facebook Post Rips Right-Wing Arguments Against Omar Khadr Settlement "As a Canadian, what do you stand for? Do you believe that you, as a Canadian, have the right to be presumed innocent, until proven guilty, as well as the right to a fair and quick trial?" Read more |
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'No Trump Zone' Planned in Paris Ahead of President's Visit As the Trump administration attempts to deflect questions from the press regarding Donald Trump Jr.'s controversial meeting during last year's campaign with a Russian lawyer , the president himself has kept a relatively low profile ahead of a scheduled trip to France this week—but the French aren't... Read more |
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'Maps Will Be Redrawn': Massive #ExxonKnew Iceberg Breaks From Antarctica "This is likely a harbinger of the pace and size of future ice shelf breaks in the Antarctic Peninsula." Read more |
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'No Longer A Question': Trump Jr.'s Emails Show Collusion, Analysts Say Analysts, journalists and officials expressed shock Tuesday following the release of Donald Trump Jr.'s emails regarding a meeting with a Russian lawyer who had Kremlin ties. Trump Jr. posted his June 2016 email exchange with Ron Goldstone, a contact who offered to arrange a meeting in which then-... Read more |
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National Day of Action Aims to 'Save the Internet From Trump and His Cronies' In the face of attempts by the Trump administration to roll back recent net neutrality gains and hand the web over to large telecommunications companies, Open Internet advocates, civil rights groups, and thousands of websites are joining forces on Wednesday to participate in a national day of... Read more |
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President Applauds 'Transparency' After Trump Jr. Forced to Come Clean With no apparent sense of irony, President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended the "transparency" of his eldest son's decision to tweet a damning email thread—which legal experts have deemed a " smoking gun " that points to apparent collusion—just before it was exposed by a New York Times report. In a... Read more |