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New Research Suggests Racial Justice Protests Have Not Led to Covid-19 Transmission Spike A new study offers evidence that widespread wearing of masks at outdoor demonstrations may be limiting Covid-19 transmission, while indoor gatherings are linked to spreading the disease. Read more |
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House Dems Introduce Bill to Prevent Big Pharma Price-Gouging During Covid-19 Pandemic The legislation was applauded as necessary to combat Trump's "sycophancy to drug corporations" that is "endangering the nation's pandemic response." Read more |
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Corporate Interests Nervous as Progressive Democrats Surge Ahead of NY and Kentucky Primaries "They were always going to have more money on their side. But we have the better candidate, with better ideas, and a better campaign." Read more |
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Calling Pandemic a 'Pivotal Moment' to Make Lasting Changes for Families, Economists Demand $50 Billion In Relief for Child Care Industry "We believe that an effective government response to the child care crisis will play a vital role in the reopening of workplaces and the ability of parents to participate in an equitable recovery." Read more |
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115+ Groups Urge Biden (and Trump) to Support 'Fair and Just Foreign Policy Regarding Israel and Palestinian Rights' "Palestinians have been campaigning for over 70 years for their basic rights and freedoms. It is far past time for the U.S. to stop carrying water for the Israeli government and instead support justice and equality for all people." Read more |
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Tax the Rich and Divert Billions From NYPD Budget to Fund Public Hospitals, Says Nurses Union "The working class and the middle class and the poor are getting shafted." Read more |
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'Poverty Is a Policy Choice': Studies Detail How Poorest Saved by Covid-19 Stimulus—and Why More Is Needed "When you look at the size of the government response, it makes sense." Read more |
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Okinawa Residents Warned of Chlorine Gas Exposure After Fire Erupts at US Military Hazmat Facility Locals have long protested U.S. military presence in Okinawa. Read more |
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Greta Thunberg Says Covid-19 Should Be Global Wake-Up Call to 'Act With Necessary Force' to Tackle Climate Emergency In a new radio program, the Swedish teenager details and reflects on her travels around the world the past year as a youth climate leader. Read more |
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'Systematic Assault on Legitimacy of Our Election': Trump Launches Conspiratorial Attack on Mail-In Voting The president is "laying the groundwork for an election challenge," warned Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics. Read more |
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'This Scares Me,' Says Bill McKibben as Arctic Hits 100.4°F—Hottest Temperature on Record "100°F about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle today in Siberia. That's a first in all of recorded history. We are in a climate emergency." Read more |
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Senators Find $14 Billion in Unspent Funds After Trump Admits to Ordering Slowdown in Covid-19 Testing "This administration will put our country at grave risk if it tries to declare an early victory, leave lifesaving work undone, and leave resources our communities desperately need sitting untouched." Read more |
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Trump Panned for 'Campaign of Hate,' Saying He Called for Less Covid-19 Testing "Once again the president is revealing that he seems to see this primarily as a public relations crisis, not as a deadly pandemic." Read more |
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As Trump Sows Division, Poor People's Campaign Ignites 'Transformative Action' to Address Interwoven Injustices "Those in power today want nothing more than to stop this kind of movement," said Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. Read more |
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'Most Corrupt President in Our Lifetimes': At Barr's Request, Trump Fires US Attorney Geoffrey Berman "Make no mistake," said Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in reaction to the news, "Bill Barr will go down in history as having aided and abetted the most corrupt president this country has ever seen." Read more |
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Six Trump Campaign Staffers Setting Up for Tulsa Rally Test Positive for Covid-19 The news comes just hours before the president holds a campaign event in the city. Read more |
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Voting Rights Advocates Warn of Impending 'Disaster' in Kentucky After Bid to Increase Slashed Number of Polling Sites Fails Jefferson County has a population of roughly 767,000 and will have just one polling location. Read more |
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'I Have Not Resigned,' Says Federal Attorney After AG Barr Tries to Oust Him "This late Friday night dismissal reeks of potential corruption of the legal process," said Sen. Chuck Schumer. Read more |
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Racial Justice and Transformative Social Change Demanded in Juneteenth Commemorations Across US "Today we honor Black excellence. Black innovation. Black history. Black futures. Black joy. Black brilliance." Read more |
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If Defeated by Booker in Democratic Primary, McGrath Urged to Hand Over Surplus Millions to Topple McConnell "Donors don't want their money going into a slush fund for McGrath’s future campaigns or to bonuses for losing consultants. They want to defeat one of the worst senators in history, Mitch McConnell." Read more |
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Poor People's Campaign to Host Weekend Digital Gathering to 'Challenge Poverty and Revive Democracy' "Those whose backs are against the wall are pushing this whole nation towards justice." Read more |
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'Shell Must Not Get Away With This': Niger Delta Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution "After nine years of promises without proper action and decades of pollution, the people of Ogoniland are not only sick of dirty drinking water, oil-contaminated fish and toxic fumes. They are sick of waiting for justice, they are dying by the day." Read more |
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'Heartbreaking,' Say Global Experts, Alarmed at Signs US Has 'Given Up' Fight to Stop Covid-19 "I can't imagine what it must be like having to go to work knowing it"s unsafe," said one expert in New Zealand. "It's hard to see how this ends." Read more |
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'Absurd': After US Bullying, Every Mention of United States Stripped From UN Resolution Spurred by George Floyd Killing "The United Nations needs to do its job—not get bullied out of doing it," said the ACLU in response. Read more |
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Feud Over NFL Season Highlights Trump's Covid-19 Recklessness vs. Fauci's Public Health Warnings "It's easy to understand why Trump's Covid response has been such a disaster." Read more |
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'About Damn Time': Louisville Police Chief Moves to Fire One of the Officers Involved in Breonna Taylor Killing "A start, but not good enough. We cannot rest until all the officers involved in Breonna Taylor's murder are charged." Read more |
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'The Pandemic Is Accelerating,' Says WHO Chief, Warning of 'New and Dangerous Phase' of Coronavirus Crisis "More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO yesterday—the most in a single day so far." Read more |
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'Get Off Your Phone': Watch Trump Scroll Through Phone as Small Business Owner Describes Covid-19 Struggles "This is the level of engagement and respect he gives small business owners trying to tell him about their problems during the outbreak." Read more |
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"She's a Cop": Advocates Scoff at Former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings as Potential Biden Running Mate Amid Racial Injustice Uprising "She was a top cop at an extremely brutal police department. She was a vocal supporter of brutal actions by police." Read more |
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Trump Threatens Violent Police Crackdown Against 'Any Protesters' Who Gather to Denounce Him in Tulsa "The president expresses his intention to violate the Constitution by denying Americans' First Amendment right to peacefully assemble." Read more |
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Arara People of Brazilian Amazon 'Very Worried' as Vulnerable Tribe Faces Highest Known Covid-19 Infection Rate in Region "President Bolsonaro is now overseeing the destruction both of a once-thriving people, and the rainforests they managed and looked after for millennia. Brazilian and international solidarity to resist this genocide is desperately needed." Read more |
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'The Loudest Voice We Have': Longshoremen to Shut Down West Coast Ports for Juneteenth "A movement requires sacrifice, and that's what we're doing as longshoremen." Read more |
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'No Justice, No Sleep!': Dawn Protest Over Police Killing of Breonna Taylor Outside McConnell's Kentucky Home "Every single problem in our country, Mitch McConnell stands in the way of solving." Read more |
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PEN America Legal Brief Condemns Trump Effort to Censor Bolton Book as 'Affront' to First Amendment "A free society cannot abide the government silencing certain perspectives before they are even uttered; such censorship runs contrary to the very notion of what our First Amendment was written to guard against." Read more |
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House Democrats Who Join Forces With GOP in Plot Against Social Security Threatened With Billboard Campaign "No member of the party of FDR should support cutting the American people's earned Social Security benefits." Read more |
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Trump Claims Covid-19 Testing Is 'Overrated' as Cases and Hospitalizations Surge Across US "Just a reminder that Trump and the people around him are still tested constantly to keep him safe while he repeats this utter bullshit to the public." Read more |
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With 'Systemic Violations' of Worker Rights, US Comes in Dead Last in Labor Rankings of Wealthy Nations The U.S. was identified as a country where "the government and/or companies are engaged in serious efforts to crush the collective voice of workers, putting fundamental rights under threat." Read more |
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New Vatican Document Urges Fossil Fuel Divestment to Serve Planet and the Common Good "The Vatican's call for divestment is a breath of hope in times when faith is more needed than ever," said 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben. "It is a powerful statement that attempting to profit off the destruction of the planet is plainly and simply immoral and unethical." Read more |
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Instead of Vote on Covid-19 Relief, Senate GOP Confirms 'Anti-Healthcare' McConnell Protégé Justin Walker to Lifetime Judgeship "Another shameful step in the McConnell/Trump takeover of our judiciary." Read more |
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'Illegal, Unscientific, and Unconscionable': Despite Risk of Brain Damage to Infants, Trump EPA Won't Regulate Rocket Fuel Additive for Water Supplies "EPA has abdicated its responsibility to set federal drinking water standards for a chemical long known to be unsafe." Read more |
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'Their Masks Are Off': Facebook Removes Trump Ads Using Nazi Concentration Camp Symbol Used to Signify Political Prisoners "Nazis used the red triangle to mark political prisoners and dissidents, and now Trump and the RNC are using it to smear millions of people protesting racist police violence." Read more |
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Nearly 9 in 10 Americans Fear Big Pharma Will Exploit Pandemic to Raise Drug Prices: Poll Large majorities of those surveyed also said they are concerned about both insurance premiums and the general cost of healthcare rising. Read more |
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US Slammed as 'Rogue State' for Withdrawing From Global Effort to Make Tech Giants Pay Fair Share in Taxes "It is a provocation... to all the citizens of the world who say that it is still legitimate for all the digital giants to pay their taxes." Read more |
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Critics Say Canada Should Seize Failure to Win UN Security Council Seat as Catalyst for 'Foreign Policy Reset' "The Liberals promised change, but the world is unconvinced." Read more |
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IEA Chief Warns: Just Six Months Left for Green Recovery to Change Course on Climate "This year is the last time we have." Read more |
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'Unimaginable Double Emergency': Record High of Nearly 80 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide Amid Pandemic "These numbers should serve as a wake-up call to the international community on the human cost of war, and the social and economic implications exacerbated by Covid-19." Read more |
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'Dreamers Are Home': Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to End DACA Program " Today we celebrate and tomorrow we will continue to fight because Trump's attacks on the immigrant community must end." Read more |
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'Wednesday Night Massacre': Trump's New Right-Wing Propaganda Chief Initiates Purge of US-Funded Media Outlets "The Breitbart crowd may be getting a taxpayer-funded global platform." Read more |
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'Orgy of Wealth' Continues as US Billionaires Grew $584 Billion Richer Over Last 3 Months While 45 Million Lost Their Jobs "If this pandemic reveals anything, it's how unequal our society has become and how drastically it must change." Read more |
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'Now Is Not the Time for More Studies': Sanders Rips Weak GOP Bill and Demands End to Police Immunity "Now is the time to hold racist and corrupt police officers and police departments accountable for their actions." Read more |
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'Police Have Not Been Treated Fairly,' Says Trump in Defense of Cop Who Shot Rayshard Brooks in the Back The president's comments came hours after the now-former Atlanta officer was charged with felony murder. Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Says Beyond Belief That 'Extraordinary Narcissist' Trump Would Sacrifice Lives to Hold Tulsa Rally "The leader of the United States government is defying science in order to hear cheers from his supporters," said the Senator from Vermont. Read more |
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Atlanta Cop Who Shot Rayshard Brooks in the Back Charged With 11 Counts—Including Felony Murder "Make no mistake, the swiftness of this investigation is the result of people marching and demanding accountability." Read more |
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Excerpts of John Bolton Book Showing Unhinged Behavior by Trump Evidence Former Advisor Is '100% Complicit,' Say Critics "Bolton is a moral abomination in every way. It's also the case that basically everyone in government who comes close to Trump comes away thinking he's even worse than they realized." Read more |
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5 Years After Racist Charleston Massacre, McConnell Ripped for 'Unconscionable' Refusal to Allow Vote on Gun Violence Bill "The Senate must act so we can prevent tragedies like this from happening again." Read more |
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A $3.5 Million Fine But 'No Prison For Anyone' After PG&E Pleads Guilty to Felony Manslaughter of 84 People "As far as actual change, to save lives, that is not happening," said the daughter of one victim killed in the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California. Read more |
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Skull Fractured by Police and Lied About by Trump, 75-Year-Old Peace Activist Martin Gugino Still Unable to Walk The veteran activist has been described as "simply a man that shows up to stand for peace and justice." Read more |
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'An Unstoppable Movement': Sanders Praises Grassroots After Target Announces $15 Minimum Wage "Now the Senate must pass our Raise the Wage Act," the senator said, "and guarantee a dignified, living wage for every worker in America. Read more |
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'It Was a Fake Meat Shortage': Reporting Suggests Industry Sacrificed Workers During Pandemic to Keep Exports Moving "Our country sacrificed the lives of meat workers to protect the business of meat companies." Read more |
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100+ Racial Justice Groups Urge Congress to Defund 'Unconstitutional and Dangerous' Police Surveillance "Use of these tools to monitor protesters is having a chilling effect against those exercising their constitutional rights to assemble and express their views." Read more |
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'Fight Like We're Down 10 Points,' Say Supporters as Poll Shows Bowman Up Double-Digits Over Engel in NY "Jamaal is up!" wrote attorney Zephyr Teachout. "You know what to do. Work harder. Six days until voting ends." Read more |
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Top Global Experts Say Humanity Must 'Heal Our Broken Relationship With Nature' to Prevent Future Pandemics "We must curb the high risk trade and consumption of wildlife, halt deforestation and land conversion, as well as manage food production sustainably." Read more |
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'You Saw My Brother Tortured and Murdered on Camera': Philonise Floyd Demands UN Probe Into Police Violence in America "You have the power to help us get justice for my brother George Floyd. I am asking you to help him. I am asking you to help me. I am asking you to help us—black people in America." Read more |
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Trump Administration Sued for 'Destructive' Denial of Covid-19 Relief Loans to Small Business Owners With Criminal Records "The excluded small business owners are more likely to be Black and Latinx because of bias in our criminal legal system, and their communities are hardest hit by Covid-19. We won't stop fighting until this economic lifeline is afforded to all." Read more |
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'As Pathetic as It Is Reckless': Mike Pence Ripped for Dismissing Surge in Covid-19 Cases "The White House ignored the threat of Covid-19 until it was too late to stop it, left states without the equipment to fight it, and didn't track its spread to contain it. Now they want to wave a magic wand and declare 'Mission Accomplished.'" Read more |
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'Make America Grim Again': With Only 14% Very Happy, Americans Haven't Been This Sad Overall Since Nixon The survey was taken as the country faced its worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression and as the nationwide uprising over racial injustice began. Read more |
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'Unprecedented' Border Clash Between China and India Leaves at Least 20 Dead as Dangerous Tensions Rise "It is an extraordinary escalation. No shots fired for 45 years, and then at least 20 soldiers dead in one evening in rock-throwing and bludgeoning." Read more |
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Independent Probe Finds NOAA Officials Violated Ethics Rules by Bowing to Trump Foolishness During 'Sharpiegate' The report comes as White House and state officials have been accused of manipulating scientific data regarding Covid-19 deaths and infections. Read more |
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'We Must Act Now': 180 House Democrats Urge Pelosi to Save Clean Energy Industry 'Decimated' by Pandemic The lawmakers' letter came as a new analysis showed at least 620,590 clean energy workers in the U.S. lost jobs from March through May. Read more |
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'Just What the Doctor Ordered': Bill Would Protect Whistleblowers Who Sound Alarm Over Abuse of Covid-19 Relief Funds "This is a major step forward." Read more |
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In Authoritarian Tirade, Trump Claims Americans 'Want Law and Order' Policing Whether They Know It or Not Civil rights advocates slammed the president's law enforcement executive order as "a band-aid for a bullet wound." Read more |
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Failed For-Profit Healthcare 'Will Continue to Compound Pandemic's Effect' in US, Warns Nobel Economist "Anything is better than pretending that the market can deliver healthcare—because it can't," says laureate Angus Deaton. Read more |
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Demonstrator Shot in New Mexico as Right-Wing Militia Attacks Protest Over Monument to Brutal Conquistador "These extremists cannot be allowed to silence peaceful protests or inflict violence." Read more |
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47 UN Human Rights Experts Condemn US Support for Israel's 'Unlawful' Annexation Plan "Accountability and an end to impunity must become an immediate priority for the international community," the experts wrote. "Palestinians and Israelis deserve no less." Read more |
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'This Is Mass Murder': Covid-19 Deaths in US Prisons Have Risen by 73% the Past Month The number of known cases in the facilities has doubled since mid-May to over 68,000. Read more |
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'Our Fight Is Not Over,' Say Green Groups After Supreme Court Clears Hurdle for Fracked Gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline "We will take it to the courts, to the halls of power, and to the streets." Read more |
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Leading US Retirees 'Like Lambs to the Slaughter,' Trump Labor Dept. Quietly Offers Up 401k Plans to Private Equity Vultures "Private equity firms will now be allowed to access—and skim fees off of—the $9 trillion in 100 million workers' 401(k) plans and IRAs." Read more |
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'No Words Can Describe': Ilhan Omar's Father, Nur Omar Mohamed, Dies of Coronavirus Complications Omar arrived in the U.S. with her father in 1995 as a Somalian refugee, and was elected to Congress 23 years later. Read more |
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Time to 'Reinvest in People' and 'Cut Weapons of War': Barbara Lee Unveils Plan to Cut Up to $350 Billion From Pentagon "Redundant nuclear weapons, off-books spending accounts, and endless wars in the Middle East don't keep us safe." Read more |
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Pence Urges Governors to Parrot Trump's Lie That Spikes in Covid-19 Cases Largely Caused by Increase in Testing "This dishonesty has caused increased deaths and will cause more. They are effectively killing people for perceived political gain." Read more |
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'Any Conversation With Me Is Classified,' Trump Claims as He Warns Bolton Over New Book "If the book gets out, he's broken the law and I would think that he would have criminal problems—I hope so." Read more |
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DNC's Climate Council Urges Party to Go Beyond Biden Plan, Calling for Fracking Ban and $16 Trillion Renewable Energy Investment "The climate emergency is here. Democrats need to take the lead on confronting it." Read more |
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Experts Say $17.5 Billion Writedown by BP Prove Oil Giant Knows 'Reserves of Oil and Gas Increasingly Worthless' "Big Oil is finally admitting what we've been saying for the last ten years: their reserves of oil and gas are increasingly worthless because there's no way to safely, or profitably, produce them." Read more |
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To Support 'Urgently-Needed Clean and Just Energy Transition,' 450+ Groups Demand Federal Regulators Rebuff Attack on Community Solar Net metering must continue, the groups tell the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Read more |
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'She Understands Healthcare Is a Right for All': Sanders Endorses Dr. Arati Kreibich's Bid to Oust Right-Wing Democrat Josh Gottheimer "Arati decided to take on the incumbent Democrat in her district because she knows that this moment requires bold, progressive leadership." Read more |
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Citing 'Known and Potential Risks,' FDA Yanks Emergency Approval of Hydroxychloroquine Touted by Trump for Covid-19 "America: Do not listen to President Trump on any medical advice." Read more |
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'Huge Victory for LGBTQ Equality' as US Supreme Court Affirms Workplace Protections "The court has caught up to the majority of our country, which already knows that discriminating against LGBTQ people is both unfair and against the law." Read more |
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'Deeply Disappointing': Supreme Court Slammed for Refusing to Examine Doctrine That Bolsters Police Immunity "Recent events demonstrate the urgent need for Congress to stand up for the rule of law and abolish qualified immunity." Read more |
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UN Human Rights Council Agrees to Hold Hearing Focused on 'Racial Inequality and Discrimination' That Characterizes American Society "The protests the world is witnessing are a rejection of the fundamental racial inequality and discrimination that characterise life in the United States for black people." Read more |
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Women Across Switzerland Share in 'Mass Scream' to Denounce Wage Inequality and Domestic Violence "In 2020 women are still in need to go to the streets and stage 'mass scream' over domestic violence and the gender pay gap... Why on earth?" Read more |
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'This Is Why We Continue to Fight': Indigenous Leaders Outraged as Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills 50,000 Gallons of Crude Oil "We cannot continue to have our land desecrated by oil spills." Read more |
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'We Can't See Any Way His Visit Will Be Good for the City': Largest Tulsa Newspaper Says Trump Not Welcome "Tulsa is still dealing with the challenges created by a pandemic. The city and state have authorized reopening, but that doesn't make a mass indoor gathering of people pressed closely together and cheering a good idea." Read more |
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It's a Pandemic, But Millionaire Trump Adviser Complains $600-Per-Week Boost in Unemployment Benefits Is Too Generous Economists have warned that in addition to "causing avoidable human misery," ending the enhanced unemployment insurance "would severely hamper spending—and, by extension, the overall economic recovery." Read more |
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Amid Growing Death Toll in Brazil, Bolsonaro's Handling of the Covid-19 Pandemic Condemned as 'Pitiful' "This is the worst public health crisis we've faced—and it has come at a time when we have the worst government in the world." Read more |
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Calls Mount for 'Radical Changes in Policy and Policing' and the Arrest of Fired Atlanta Officer Who Killed Rayshard Brooks The head of CAIR-Georgia demanded actions to "end the systemic oppression and anti-black racism rooted in the Atlanta Police Department and other law enforcement agencies." Read more |
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Atlanta Police Shoot and Kill Rayshard Brooks as Protests Demanding Racial Justice Continue Worldwide "This is not the first time a black man has been killed for sleeping," said Rev. James Woodall, state president of the Georgia NAACP. Read more |
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New York Times Endorses Jamaal Bowman as a 'Promising New Face' Voters Can Send to Congress The progressive former middle school principal is challenging longtime Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel in New York's 16th Congressional District. Read more |
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'This Is Deadly': Trump HHS Scraps Protections for Transgender Patients and Those Seeking Abortions "The Trump administration has made a mission out of putting politicians and religious beliefs above a patient's healthcare." Read more |
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As Nationwide Protests Over Police Brutality Continue, Cities Across the US Cut and Reallocate Police Funding "You don't have to go full abolition to see that maybe sinking 1/3 of a city's general budget into police is a problematic investment." Read more |
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Research Shows 'Linking Climate Policy to Social and Economic Justice Makes It More Popular' "The public wants a Green New Deal. The public wants green stimulus. The public wants to address inequality." Read more |