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At Museum 'Die-In,' Protesters Demand Opioid-Peddling Sackler Family Help to Combat Crisis It Fueled "It's time for the family that helped create this problem answer to the people worst affected." Read more |
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Like Father, Like Daughter: Ivanka Accused of Violating Emoluments Clause Adding to mounting conflict of interest concerns in the Trump White House, Ivanka will get over $1 million from her family's business this year Read more |
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'More Evidence Trump Is Scared of the NRA': White House Retreats From Call to Raise Gun Purchasing Age The White House's new proposals to reduce gun violence were denounced by gun control groups as "completely inadequate." Read more |
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Thanks to Deals Inked Under Obama, US Extends Lead in Global Arms Trade Saudi Arabia is the second-largest weapons importer in the world, receiving many of its arms from the U.S. as it wages war in Yemen Read more |
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On World Wide Web's 29th Birthday, Its Inventor Warns of Threats to Digital Rights "The fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to weaponize the web," warns British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee Read more |
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Proving Yet Again She Is 'Grossly Unqualified,' DeVos Admits She Hasn't Bothered to Visit Struggling Schools "Betsy DeVos is disliked because she wants to privatize public education, is rolling back civil rights in education, and supports arming teachers in schools. It is that simple." Read more |
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Trump Lawyers Considering Action to Block '60 Minutes' Interview With Stormy Daniels: Report "Why so many steps to keep the American people from learning the truth?" asks lawyer for adult film actress Read more |
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Against #BankLobbyistAct, #ShePersisted: Warren Asks 'How Can Any Senator Vote for That?' While fellow Democrats backing measure to roll back Wall Street regulations have expressed frustration, progressive senator says bill "increases the chances of another taxpayer bailout" Read more |
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17 Crosses for 17 Victims of Florida Massacre Dangled From Gun Show Billboard in Kentucky Names and ages of each victims were written in black text on the white crosses Read more |
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'A Badge of Honor': Steve Bannon Tells National Front in France, 'Let Them Call You Racists' "Let them call you racists. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor," says President Trump's former top strategist Read more |
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#ProtectTheInlet: Massive Protest in BC as Thousands March to Stop Kinder Morgan Pipeline "In our opposition to Kinder Morgan, we are many people paddling in the same direction." Read more |
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$30 Million for "Trump's Vanity Military Parade" Nothing Compared to $5.6 Trillion Spent on Endless War Since 2001 'The best way to show support for veterans is to stop war.' Read more |
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'Insane': NRA Wins Again as Florida Law to Stop School Shootings Includes More Guns in Schools "So why would such dangerous proposal end up in a package that's meant to protect kids from gun violence? The answer is obvious: it's the gun lobby." Read more |
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Nearly 800 Quebec Doctors Demand Their Pay Raises Go To Nurses, Improving Healthcare Overall "These increases are all the more shocking because our nurses, clerks, and other professionals face very difficult working conditions, while our patients live with the lack of access to required services because of the drastic cuts in recent years." Read more |
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Senators Called on to End US Role in 'Worst Humanitarian Crisis on the Planet' With call-in action and letters, groups ramp up pressure on lawmakers to back Sanders-led resolution Read more |
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Trump FCC Sued for Granting 'Favors to Massive Media Conglomerates Like Sinclair' "This FCC seems intent on looking the other way as people in the U.S. brace for a new wave of media mergers." Read more |
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National Class-Action Lawsuit Aims to Stop Trump From Tearing Children Away From Asylum-Seeking Parents ACLU-backed lawsuit is an expansion of an ongoing effort to reunite a Congolese mother and her 7-year-old daughter Read more |
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Naomi Klein on How Myriad Crises Can 'Catalyze a Kind of Revolutionary Leap' In recent TED Talk, author and activist talks about need to "picture the world that we're fighting for." Read more |
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'The Issue of Our Time': Sanders, Warren, and Moore Will Explore Oligarchy's Destruction of Middle Class in Town Hall The event follows a discussion the senator held in January on Medicare for All, which drew 1.6 million viewers Read more |
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Ahead of Major Protest to Stop Kinder Morgan Pipeline, Company Files Injunction Against Water Protectors "Kinder Morgan is intimidating environmentalists who are standing up for B.C. against a dirty tar sands pipeline." Read more |
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Democrats Who Don't Like Being Criticized By Elizabeth Warren, Say Progressives, Could Just Vote Against Big Bank Giveaways "We suggest these Democratic colleagues check in on the messages they've been getting from their constituents," responded one progressive group. "Our guess is they sound a lot like Senator Warren." Read more |
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UN Calls for Psychiatric Evaluation After Duterte Puts Top Human Rights Expert on 'Hit List' President of Philippines decried for 600-person "terrorist list" which includes the UN special rapporteur on indigenous human rights Read more |
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Warren Leads Probe into Half a Billion in Suspect Loans to Kushner Companies "Federal ethics laws prohibit federal employees from profiting from their government service, and Mr. Kushner's refusal to fully divest from his financial holdings raises questions." Read more |
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No Stranger to Party Establishment's Tactics, Sanders Calls DCCC Attacks on Progressives "Appalling" 'What these organizations should not be doing is doing negative attacks on Democratic candidates,' says former presidential candidate Read more |
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As Trump Demands 'Credit,' South Korea Praised for 'Masterful' Diplomacy "Let the record show, it wasn't Trump's bluster or the 'maximum pressure' campaign that brought North Korea to the negotiating table, it was South Korean President Moon Jae-in's willingness to engage without preconditions." Read more |
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Experts Demand Senators Back Sanders-Led Proposal to End US Complicity in Yemen Bloodshed Experts ask senators to defend "the constitutional linchpin of Congress's sole authority to declare war" Read more |
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Fossil Fuel Execs Very Annoyed #KeepItIntheGround Movement Crimping Their Ability to Pillage Planet "There's more opponents, and it's more organized," lamented Kinder Morgan CEO Steven Kean Read more |
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US Progressives Express Solidarity With Anti-TPP Protests as 11 Nations Sign Revised Corporate-Friendly Trade Deal In Chile, critics took to the streets with signs declaring, "No to modern slavery, no to the TPP-11" and "The TPP and TPP-11 are the same!" Read more |
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Lawmakers Opposing Assault Weapons Ban Received 130 Times More Gun Industry Donations Despite public outcry and increased support for stricter gun control measures, analysis shows industry money still dominates in Congress Read more |
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Advocating "End to Manels," New Report Highlights Persistence of Male-Dominated Conferences "These events reinforce the glass ceiling by presenting men as more important decision makers and limiting networking opportunities for women." Read more |
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Federal Judge's Unprecedented Order on Climate Science 'Could Open Floodgates' for Big Oil Lawsuits "The court is forcing these companies to go on the record about their understanding of climate science, which they have desperately tried to avoid doing." Read more |
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Trump Says Gary Cohn Might 'Go Out and Make Another Couple Hundred Million' and Then 'Come Back' "I don't know if I can put him in the same position though," Trump said. "He's not quite as strong on those tariffs as we want." Read more |
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To Bolster Chance for Peace, Trump Pressured to Halt US-South Korea War Exercises "We now have a historic opportunity to begin to put an end to the longest-running war in modern history." Read more |
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On International Women's Day, Women Across Spain Stop All Work in 'Feminist Strike' "If we stop, the world stops." Read more |
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Internet Users Won't Be Duped, Say Critics of 'Sham' GOP Net Neutrality Bill "Public support for real net neutrality is greater than it has ever been—and internet users won't be fooled by half-measures or industry attempts to confuse the issue." Read more |
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Refusing to 'Play Dead for Big Banks,' Warren Gives Fellow Senators 17 Chances to Put Consumers First "The Senate is expected to pass the #BankLobbyistAct—with Democratic support. But I'm not going down without a fight." Read more |
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Because It's "An Idea Whose Time Has Come," Rep. Keith Ellison Takes Lead on Medicare for All Legislation Universal coverage, Ellison said Wednesday, "is a crucial linchpin in our fight for fairness and economic justice." Read more |
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Researchers 'Staggered' by 'Crazy, Crazy' Record-Setting Warm Winter in Arctic Arctic warming is just a symptom of "disease" that's getting worse, say climate scientists, as U.S. leaders refuse to curb human activities that contribute to climate crisis Read more |
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Democrats Infrastructure Plan Would Roll Back GOP Tax Cuts for Rich, Corporations "Making the rich and corporations pay their fair share means we will be able to rebuild our communities from the ground up." Read more |
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Ben Carson Catches Heat for Cutting 'Free From Discrimination' Promise Out of HUD Mission "You have experienced first-hand the demoralizing wounds of segregation and racism... You must bring these experiences to bear in your responsibility to uphold the duties of your office." Read more |
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As Trump Threats Stir Global Arms Race, New Report Details the Nuclear War Profiteers "If you have been wondering who benefits from Donald Trump's threats of nuclear war, this report has that answer." Read more |
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Despite Attack by Party Establishment at DCCC, Progressive Democrat Laura Moser Advances to Texas Run-Off While party leadership tried to muscle her out of primary race, those attempts may have only galvanized support for her bold campaign Read more |
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'Don't Be Evil?': Outrage Over Google's Secret Program to Bolster Pentagon's Drone War "I hadn't noticed the '...but it's okay to help with drone strikes' footnote to the 'don't be evil' line in Google's code of conduct." Read more |
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Schumer Denounced for 'Absolutely Disgusting' AIPAC Speech "At AIPAC, Democrats try to outdo Trump in their devotion to Israel's oppression of Palestinians." Read more |
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'Yes': Stormy Daniels' Attorney Says Adult Film Star and Trump Did Have Sexual Relationship After filing lawsuit, which argues president never signed a non-disclosure agreement, attorney says Daniels is ready to tell her side of the story Read more |
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Intensifying 'Relentless Attack' on Immigrants, Trump DOJ Sues California Over Sanctuary Laws Immigrant rights groups and California officials vowed to resist the White House's "mass incarceration and deportation force" Read more |
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No, Dana Loesch, Your Time Is Running Out: Parkland Student Delivers Powerful Rebuke to NRA "To every spokeswoman with an hourglass who uses free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents... Your time is running out." Read more |
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Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy Friends and Corporate Raiders Complete, Cohn Calls It Quits "Cohn leaves the White House after pushing through the #GOPTaxScam that gave 83% of tax cuts to him and his friends in the wealthiest 1%. Now that he put the richest ahead of everyone else, I guess his work is done." Read more |
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'The Time Has Come': UN Expert Calls for Global Recognition That Every Human Has Right to Healthy Environment More than 100 countries have officially acknowledged the right to a clean environment in their constitutions, leaving the U.N. to catch up Read more |
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17 Democrats Decried for Sending This Clear Message: "I Work for My Bank Donors, Not My Constituents' "Voters have seen this movie before. It didn't work out in 2008 and it's no wiser today. There is simply no excuse for a Democrat to add their name to Wall Street deregulation." Read more |
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Trump Buried OMB Report That Undermines Entire Premise of His Deregulatory Agenda "Despite the administration's attempts to muddy the waters, the public will not be fooled and the data is clear: Americans will pay a steep price for Trump's deregulatory agenda." Read more |
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As Nation Eyes Texas Primary, Cruz in Panic Mode Over 'Extreme Left' Voter Turnout Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Cruz's likely challenger, has rejected corporate PAC money and outraised the Texas senator by a significant margin in 2018 Read more |
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After Calling Practice 'A Horror Show,' Trump Reverses Ban on Animal Trophy Imports Breaking earlier promise, administration now says slaughtered elephants and other exotic animals will be allowed into U.S. on "case-by-case" basis Read more |
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West Virginia Teachers Chant 'Put It in Writing' as Lawmakers Reach Pay Raise Deal Teachers welcomed news of an agreement with applause, but vowed to remain on strike until the bill passes both chambers of the state legislature Read more |
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As Larger Battle Rages, Washington Enacts First State Law to Protect Net Neutrality "Momentum is building from coast to coast to #SaveTheInternet. Now we need the other Washington to act." Read more |
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Paul Ryan's Progressive Challenger Randy 'Ironstache' Bryce Among Those Arrested Demanding Justice for Dreamers The progressive congressional candidate Randy "Ironstache" Bryce, a possible challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan in November, told the press that his support for immigrants was "absolutely" worth being arrested Read more |
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As Massive Handout Sails Through Senate, Big Banks Send Democrats and GOP 'Sweet Thank You Note' for Doing Their Bidding Ripping the letter on Twitter, Sen. Elizabeth Warren noted the same banks "got $30 billion in bailouts just a few years ago, but they are still able to get senators of both parties to roll back the rules." Read more |
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Denuclearization on Table After 'Openhearted Talk' Between North and South Korea Moves Nations Away From War "The South Korean envoys will have things to explain to Washington, but will Trump truly be able to understand?" Read more |
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'The Charade Is Over': CBO Reveals Democrat-Backed Bill Really Just Big Gift to Wall Street "The Wall Street crash of 2008 showed the American people how fraudulent many of these large banks are. The last thing we should be doing is deregulating them." Read more |
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With #HereToFight Declaration, Dreamers and Allies Mobilize Across Nation "Their fight is our fight. Their dreams are our dreams. Because, ultimately, their future is our future." Read more |
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Trump Condemned for 'Abhorrent' 2,000-Mile Separation of Mother and Her 7-Year-Old Child Separating mother and daughter refugees called "unconscionable overreach of government power violating fundamental principles of fairness, including substantive due process rights under U.S. constitutional law, and threatens one of our most fundamental social constructs, the family." Read more |
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'Let Him Arrest Me': Watch Former Trump Aide Say He Won't Submit to Mueller Subpoena Sam Nunberg says he won't comply with Special Prosecutor's request to hand over email exchanges with other top advisors during 2016 election Read more |
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'Needless and Ideologically-Driven Cruelty': Arkansas to Become First State to Implement Trump's Assault on Medicaid "In a very real sense, health coverage for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid could be at risk under the agenda Trump is advancing." Read more |
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As West Virginia Rages, 'Tipping Point' in Oklahoma Has Teachers Planning Walkout of Their Own "A walkout would be the last resort, but we want more money for education in the state, that means more money for supplies, more staff, and pay raises so teachers will stay." Read more |
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Shrouded in Darkness, Just Four People Gave $30 Million to Pro-Trump Group in 2016 Tax return of dark money group shows that just a handful of individual gifts fueled a multi-million-dollar slush fund for far-right forces Read more |
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'A Class of People Rising Up' as West Virginia Teachers Strike Hits Eighth Day "This is a real 'us against them,' this is a real working people standing up against huge corporations." Read more |
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Forget Guns and Immigration, These 12 Democrats Focused on Helping GOP Deliver Big Bank Giveaway "The bank lobbyists have been hitting Capitol Hill hard, and they have a Dodd-Frank rollback bill lined up with the support of every Republican and 12 Democrats." Read more |
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John Oliver Condemns NRA's "Bleak Vision of America" as Transparent Plot to Sell Guns Thousands of Americans have called on streaming services to end their relationship's with the powerful gun lobbying organization's media arm Read more |
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Top Russian Official: US Meddling in Our Upcoming Presidential Election Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. has a "rich tradition" of interfering in the elections of other nations. Read more |
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The Oscars Use a More Fair Voting System Than Most of America Does Since 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has used ranked-choice voting to select winners in each category Read more |
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'Don't Deport Immigrant Youth': Dreamers Rally Outside White House Ahead of Trump's DACA Deadline "Trump thought we would go back into the shadows but he was wrong. We are still here and we are #HereToFight!" Read more |
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Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder Among Those Arrested at Vermont Protest of F-35 Fighter Jets Demonstrators worried about dangerous noise levels oppose the Air Force's plans to base 18 aircrafts in Burlington starting next year Read more |
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Trump Raises Alarm by Praising Chinese President's Power Grab at Private Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser One ethics expert responded to Trump's remarks by posing the question: "How many hints do we need that he wants to be a dictator?" Read more |
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North Korea Says US Demands and Joint Military Drills Impede Diplomatic Talks The comments come as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is under fire for claiming war with North Korea would be "worth it" in the long run Read more |
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'Kushner Must Resign': Calls Intensify for Trump Son-in-Law to Step Down "His business entanglements are corrupting our government and potentially endangering national security." Read more |
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What Does Research That NRA Doesn't Want Funded Show? That Gun Restrictions Save Lives A new non-partisan study offers some of the most complete analysis of gun policies in decades—but the effort was frequently hamstrung by the NRA's stifling of gun control research Read more |
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'We Will Stay!' West Virginia Teachers Vote to Occupy State Capitol Until Demands Met While some have called the West Virginia teachers' strike "the most important story in the country right now," MSNBC and other outlets have almost completely ignored it. Read more |
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New Campaign Challenges DCCC's "All-Out War Against Progressives" "Stop undermining progressive values," a new petition to the DCCC demands. Read more |
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There You Have It: Emails Confirm Coal, Oil, and Gas Extraction Drove Shrinking of National Monuments "The evidence of just how embedded Trump and Zinke are with the dirty energy of the past could not be clearer." Read more |
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Ending Rules to Curb 'Silent, Tasteless Killer,' Pruitt Makes It Easier for Polluters to Poison Nation's Water Polluters wanted the Obama-era regulations weakend. Obsequious Pruitt just obliged. Read more |
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'Such a Fortunate Coincidence': Trump Ally Carl Icahn Ditched Steel Stocks Before Tariffs Made Public "Hmmm, is this a coincidence or did Trump confidant Carl Icahn have insider information?" Read more |
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Warren Calls Out Fellow Democrats for Helping GOP Ram Through 'Wish Lists of Big Bank Lobbyists' "It's time for the rest of us to fight back and demand that Washington work for us, not the big bank lobbyists." Read more |
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With 'Rock-Solid' Case to Defend Net Neutrality, Free Press Takes FCC to Court "The agency is dead wrong to think it can take away" net neutrality protections that have the support of an overwhelming majority of Americans, says the group Read more |
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Sinclair's Sneaky Moves to Skirt Rules and Get Tribune Merger Approved The right-wing television giant has proposed shady sales of a handful of stations to win federal regulatory approval for the $3.9 billion deal Read more |
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After 'Great' Late-Night Meeting, Top NRA Lobbyist Assures Nation Trump-Pence 'Don't Want Gun Control' "It's disgusting that gun lobbyists who seek to profit at the expense of our communities' safety are meeting with the president just two weeks after the Parkland school shooting." Read more |
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Barry Crimmins, Anti-War Comic and Crusader Against Child Abuse, Dies at 64 The stand-up comedian spoke out against war and sexual abuse, and was beloved by fellow comedians for his honest and caustic political commentary Read more |
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Want to Get Trump to Start a Trade War? Follow Steel Industry's Lead and Buy Some Ad Time on Fox & Friends "Tariffs are economically destructive and regressive. Imposing a 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum is bad policy for the vast majority of Americans." Read more |
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Amid Threats of Discipline, Hundreds of Colleges Assure Prospective Students Anti-Gun Protests Cool With Them "Say your piece, speak your mind, and demand better of us all." Read more |
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'New Cold War' Heats Up as Russia Meets US Nuke Threats With One of Its Own "While Russia and the U.S. compare the size of their arsenals, the rest of the world is joining a treaty that bans them." Read more |
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Warren Grades DeVos: 'Worst Secretary of Education Country Has Ever Seen—By Large Margin' "Secretary DeVos has spent her first year bending over backwards to allow students to be cheated and undermining the civil rights of students across the country." Read more |
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New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Think Trump Is Racist They are also alarmed by how his policies have impacted Hispanics, Muslims, and black Americans Read more |
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#55Strong: Rejecting Flimsy Deal, Teachers Back on the Picket Line in West Virginia The governor offered a five percent pay raise to teachers after the fourth day of a state-wide walkout, but teachers are demanding a permanent funding solution for the state's public employees' insurance program Read more |
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With All Eyes on Trump White House Dysfunction, the Real Meltdown Is in the Arctic 'This is the biggest story of our lifetimes.' No, not the impossible-to-ignore dysfunction within the current administration. Read more |
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Kushner's Company Got Hundreds of Millions in Loans After White House Meetings With Top Execs: Report "Disappointing. Corrupt. And yet, entirely predictable." Read more |
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After Being Told He's 'Full of Sh*t' at School Event, Mnuchin Demands UCLA Suppress Video In addition to being called out on his "plutocratic BS," students in attendance attacked the Treasury chief's record of foreclosing on tens of thousands of Americans Read more |
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Boosting Hopes for Total Ban, EU Regulator's New Assessment Confirms Neonics' Harm to Bees "We have been playing Russian Roulette with the future of our bees for far too long" Read more |
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Student After Teacher Fires Gun: 'I Dare You to Tell Me Arming Teachers Will Make Us Safe' "I'm a Dalton High School student. Please don't tell me a damn thing about arming teachers. Please don't tell me that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about." Read more |
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Sanders-Led Group Introduces Bill Calling for Removal of US Forces From Yemen "The bill will force the first-ever vote in the Senate to withdraw U.S. armed forces from an unauthorized war." Read more |
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Oakland Mayor Applauded for Warning Community About ICE Raids "We know law-abiding residents live in fear of arrest and deportation every day," said Mayor Libby Schaaf. "My priority is for the long-term well-being of Oakland." Read more |
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The Vital Congressional Hearing on the Endless War That Probably Nobody Watched The "2001 AUMF," said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), "has become a blank check for any president to wage war anytime, anywhere, anyplace without the consent or oversight of Congress." Read more |