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Ecuador's President Moves Government From Capital as Protests Over Austerity Measures Continue "The measures are a blow to the people. Stuff is getting more expensive, and wages are not rising." Read more |
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As Democrats Threaten Subpoena for Sondland, Calls Grow for Contempt Order If He Refuses to Comply The president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Tuesday that members of the Trump administration do not intend to cooperate with the House's impeachment inquiry Read more |
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'Literally Relitigating Watergate': Trump DOJ Argues Court Was Wrong to Hand Over Grand Jury Material in Nixon Impeachment Inquiry "Wow," said the federal judge hearing the case. "The department is taking an extraordinary position." Read more |
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Ocasio-Cortez Takes Aim at Crowley and Kennedy For Challenge to Green New Deal Co-Champion Ed Markey "Joe Kennedy thinks that with the backing of the establishment and the old guard of the Democratic Party that he can beat a progressive champion for justice. Let's show Kennedy that he's wrong." Read more |
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LGBTQ Advocates Flood Capitol Hill on Day One of Supreme Court's First Trans Civil Rights Case in US History "We are here. No one can take that away. #RiseUpOct8" Read more |
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'What Is the Trump Administration Trying to Hide?' Asks Sanders After President Blocks Amb. Gordon Sondland Testimony "When you have no defense you stonewall." Read more |
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To Stop Threat of 'For-Profit Surveillance,' Rights Groups Demand End to Partnerships That Give Cops Access to Amazon Ring Data "Our elected officials are supposed to protect us, both from abusive policing practices and corporate overreach. These partnerships are a clear case of both." Read more |
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In European First, Proposed Constitutional Amendment in Sweden Would Enshrine Rights of Nature "When we're in the beginning of an ecological and climate collapse," said the lawmaker who introduced the measure, "I hope we can re-think our relationship with Nature." Read more |
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'The Tide Has Shifted': New Poll Shows Nearly 60% of Americans Support Trump Impeachment Inquiry The Washington Post-Schar School poll also found 49 percent of Americans want the House to call for president's removal from office Read more |
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'Good!' Says Sanders as Lobbyists Lash Out at Proposal to End Corporate Domination of US Politics "We welcome their hatred," said Sanders adviser Warren Gunnels Read more |
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Attorneys Say They Now Represent 'Multiple Whistleblowers' With Knowledge of Trump-Ukraine Call One of the whistleblowers has "first-hand knowledge" about Trump's call with Ukraine's leader, according to attorney Mark Zaid. Read more |
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'Unfit to Sit': Rallies Demand Kavanaugh Impeachment on One-Year Anniversary of Senate Confirmation "The public deserves to know the truth about whether Kavanaugh lied under oath, whether he committed sexual assault, and whether he really deserves to be on the Supreme Court." Read more |
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Beto Says He Has "No Fears" About Bernie's Fitness for Office: "There Isn't a More Energized, Energetic Candidate" "Grateful that he's a candidate and grateful to be in this race with him," Beto O'Rourke told reporters Saturday Read more |
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'This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like': Outrage as London Police Use Battering Ram to Raid Extinction Rebellion Building "These tactics are very questionable and are arguably infringing on our rights to peaceful protest, and indeed our efforts to preserve people's right to life." Read more |
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Because Trump 'Has Chosen Path of Defiance, Obstruction, and Cover-Up,' Democrats Subpoena White House for Ukraine Documents "We deeply regret that President Trump has put us—and the nation—in this position," wrote Democratic chairmen of three key committees, "but his actions have left us with no choice but to issue this subpoena." Read more |
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Big Meat Files Suit to Stop California Measure Improving Animal Welfare California's Proposition 12, passed in November, won praise from animal rights groups. Read more |
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Former US Envoy Kurt Volker Details Attempts to Steer Giuliani and Trump Away From Pressure Campaign Targeting Ukraine "The most remarkable thing about this Volker testimony is just how much he and seemingly other U.S. officials were working to try and undo whatever Rudy Giuliani was doing." Read more |
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House Dems Take Aim at Pence Role in Ukraine Scandal as Impeachment Inquiry Continues "Pence is neck-deep in this scandal." Read more |
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Report Shows 'Stunning and Dramatic' Scenes of Thawing Permafrost in Siberia That 'Leaves Millions on Unstable Ground' "Rivers are rising and running faster, and entire neighborhoods are falling into them." Read more |
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For Their Efforts to 'Save Our Planet,' Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents Face More Than 100 Years in Prison "I wish the government would use the same resources to go after the oil companies and pipeline companies, but clearly they're not interested in that." Read more |
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After US Senator Asks Public to 'Imagine' CIA Interfering in Foreign Elections, Historians Are Like... Uhhh Australia, of course, is not the only country whose politics the U.S. has meddled in since the creation of the C.I.A. in 1947. Read more |
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Posting $24.6 Million Third-Quarter Haul, Warren Far Surpasses Biden 'Without One Single Fancy Fundraiser' "The online small dollar operations of Bernie and Warren are disrupting the old campaign model." Read more |
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Human Rights Defenders Condemn Iraqi Government After Security Forces Kill at Least 44 People in Anti-Corruption Protests "Instead of meeting these protests with arbitrary and excessive force, authorities must address protesters' grievances and the root causes of the unrest in a sustainable manner." Read more |
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77 Groups Demand Trump Rescind Attack-on-Facts Executive Order Slashing Expert Advisory Committees The committee losses "will undoubtedly result in a net loss of independent expert capacity and institutional knowledge and leave important work unfinished or underdeveloped." Read more |
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'Is That Not Racist?' Hasan Pushes Trump Advisor to Condemn President's Remarks Stephen Moore was one of the president's picks for the Federal Reserve board but withdrew after years of misogynistic writings consumed the news around his nomination. Read more |
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'Gave Me Goosebumps': Praise for Independent Video That Captures Side of Bernie Sanders Corporate Media Ignores "This video lifts up so many marginalized voices that are consistently downplayed and discounted by the corporate media. Bernie Sanders hears you." Read more |
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After Supreme Court Agrees to Hear First Abortion Case With Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, Warnings Right-Wingers Could 'Decimate' Access in Louisiana "We are counting on the court to follow its precedent; otherwise, clinics will needlessly close." Read more |
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'Doesn't Rule Out Potential Mental Issue,' Says Ocasio-Cortez After Learning #EatTheBabies Was Stunt by Pro-Trump Trolls "I was concerned there was a woman in crisis and want to ensure we treat the situation compassionately," Democrat from New York had said earlier. Read more |
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Demanding Transcript of Trump Call With Xi, Warren Slams President for Selling Out People of Hong Kong 'Behind Closed Doors' "The public must see the transcript of Trump's call with Xi. And we need a leader who will stand up for our values." Read more |
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Despite Big-Money Events, Joe Biden Raises $10 Million Less in Third Quarter Than 'Small-Donor-Only Socialist' Bernie Sanders "If your ideas are actually popular, you can raise lots of money without relying on lobbyist fundraisers." Read more |
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'Filled to the Brim With Quid Pro Quo': Explosive Texts Shine New Light on Trump Effort to Push Ukraine to Open Biden Probe "I never expected anything this explicit in writing. It's truly astounding." Read more |
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New Study Warns India-Pakistan Nuclear War Could Kill 125 Million Immediately—Then Spark Global Mass Starvation "The world cannot afford the impacts on public health, the environment and our climate that would result from any use of nuclear weapons. They must be eliminated before they eliminate us." Read more |
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'Is This Thing On?': FEC Chair Forced to Remind Trump (Again) That It Is 'Illegal' to Solicit Election Help From Foreign Governments "Oh, it's on—but someone isn't listening or can't read (or both)." Read more |
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Federal Lawsuit Naming Top Trump Officials Seeks Damages for 'Horrific' Trauma Imposed on Separated Children and Families "Some may never recover, but we are fighting to give them a chance." Read more |
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'We Are at a Crisis Point' Warns New Report Exposing 'Science Under Siege' From the Trump Administration "Scientific research by the federal government has led to safer road and air travel, life-saving drugs, and so much more. We must protect its independence and integrity." Read more |
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'Just Because He Does It in the Open Does Not Make Abuse of Power OK': Outrage After Trump Asks China to Investigate Bidens "Let's be very clear what’s happening here: Trump is openly asking foreign governments to interfere in the 2020 presidential election against his political rivals." Read more |
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To 'Shift Power Back Towards Working People,' Warren Plan Aims to End Decades-Long Attack on Organized Labor "We cannot have a truly democratic society with so little power in the hands of working people." Read more |
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Out of Surgery, Dying Activist Ady Barkan Still Waiting to Talk With Joe Biden About Medicare for All "We may disagree, but if you want to be president, you'll have to have some hard conversations." Read more |
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'Dystopian' Plan by Trump Administration to Harvest DNA From Undocumented Immigrants Draws Outrage From Rights Advocates "Expansion from tracking individuals suspected of crimes to creating permanent files on whole classes of people is one of the hallmarks of a concentration camp regime." Read more |
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Warnings of 'Stealth Privatization' Effort as Trump Signs Executive Order Expanding Medicare Advantage Plans "Today's executive order is yet another giveaway to the corporations that run Medicare Advantage plans." Read more |
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'If We Don't Fight... Who Will?': In Name of Students, Chicago Teachers Union Sets Oct. 17 Strike Date CTU could be joined on the picket lines by SEIU members who work as school support staff and for the city's park district—which would mean 35,000 striking workers all at once. Read more |
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'Stunning Rebuke to Predatory Wall Street Megabanks' as California Gov. Signs Law Allowing Creation of Public Banks "The people of California just went up against the most powerful corporate lobby in the country—and won." Read more |
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'On Message as Always': Sanders Works His Heart Procedure Into Case for Medicare for All as #GetWellBernie Trends "None of us know when a medical emergency might affect us. And no one should fear going bankrupt if it occurs. Medicare for All!" Read more |
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Demand Justice Targets Democratic Sen. Chris Coons For Voting in Favor of Trump Judicial Nominees "We plan to invest in Delaware a lot more heavily in the coming months, assuming Chris Coons continues voting for Trump judges." Read more |
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'Where Are the Stenographer Notes?': Questions Percolate After Trump Says White House Released 'Word for Word' Transcript The White House previously said the document showing the conversation between Trump and Ukraine's president was a memo summarizing what was said on the call, but was not verbatim. Read more |
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Voters 'Overwhelmingly Support' Robust Paid Family Leave Proposal While Rejecting 'Half-Measures,' New Study Finds "At at some point, everyone has to take care of a loved one, get care for themselves, or both—and we need time away from our jobs to do so." Read more |
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'Unacceptable': Family Farms, Ag Advocates Hit Back After Sec Perdue Says Small Dairy Farms Destined to Die "Five years of plunging farm prices, increasing bankruptcies, and climbing suicide rates were not discussed by Perdue. His message to them was basically, stop whining, your demise is inevitable." Read more |
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'Unbelievable': Snowden Calls Out Media for Failing to Press US Politicians on Inconsistent Support of Whistleblowers The comment followed a new Justice Department filing that claims a whistleblower engaged in "thievery, not protected speech" when allegedly leaking classified information on the U.S. drone operations Read more |
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As Trump Rails Against 'Bullsh*t' Impeachment, Progressives Demand Pelosi Treat Probe With 'Urgency It Deserves' "Donald Trump is tweeting about coups and civil wars and Speaker Pelosi is failing to lead." Read more |
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To Counter Missouri's Attacks on Abortion Care, Planned Parenthood Opens 'Mega-Clinic' in Neighboring Illinois The new facility comes as Missouri's sole remaining abortion provider remains mired in a legal battle to remain open. Read more |
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One Year After Khashoggi Murder, Chorus of Demands for Saudi Govt. to Face Consequences "Despite the backlash directed at the kingdom, the Saudis haven't faced serious consequences for the slaying of Khashoggi or its slaughter of civilians in Yemen." Read more |
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'In Any Normal World He Would Have to Go': Pompeo Admits Being on Trump Ukraine Call "Pompeo tried to corrupt the State Department, plainly lied about being on the call that was at the heart of the corruption, and is trying to obstruct justice." Read more |
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"We're Looking at Near Raw Bribery": House Dems Investigating Whether Groups Tried to Curry Favor With Trump Through Hotel Bookings "It seems evidence of Trump's corruption is hiding under every rock. You just need the courage to look." Read more |
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Petition Filed at ICC to Probe Saudi Ruler MBS for Role in Murder of Jamal Khashoggi "Nothing of significance happens in the kingdom absent the crown prince's direction or approval." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders 'In Good Spirits' After Successful Heart Procedure to Treat Artery Blockage "We are canceling his events and appearances until further notice, and we will continue to provide appropriate updates," said Sanders senior adviser Jeff Weaver. Read more |
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Calls for Trump-Supporting Billionaire Schwarzman to Apologize for Saying "Maybe Bernie Sanders Shouldn't Exist" "Maybe Steve Schwarzman should apologize for making such a disgusting comment," said Sanders speechwriter David Sirota. Read more |
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Warnings That Millions More Could Go Hungry as Trump Pushes $4.5 Billion in Food Benefit Cuts "The Trump administration's latest proposal to cut SNAP would leave millions of people, including struggling families, seniors, and people with disabilities, with less help putting food on the table." Read more |
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'Extremely Dangerous': Trump Tweet Calling Impeachment Inquiry a 'Coup' Heightens Fears of Refusal to Leave Office "The orderly transfer of power in the United States has always depended on the active cooperation of the outgoing president. What happens if that cooperation is not forthcoming?" Read more |
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'Gross Domestic Product': How Street Artist Banksy Turned Bizarre Trademark Dispute Into Fundraiser for Migrant Rescue Ship "The proceeds from these products will go towards buying a new migrant rescue boat...So you may well be committing a criminal offense by purchasing them." Read more |
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With Pompeo's Refusal to Obey Subpoena, Trump Administration 'Actively Obstructing the Impeachment Inquiry' "You don't get to work for Donald Trump, and then whine about 'bullies.'" Read more |
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'Appalling Disregard for Civilians': Amnesty Investigation Details How US Military Killed Innocent Farmers in Somalia "Three civilian men died agonizing deaths while their families are left questioning why the U.S. military targeted and killed them." Read more |
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Despite 'Enormous Potential' as Carbon Sink, Australia's Damaged Coastal Ecosystems Spewing Millions of Tons of CO2 "Australia is in a position to take a leading role in developing policies to offset greenhouse gas emissions which can then be implemented around the world." Read more |
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'Be Ready to Fight Like Hell,' Say Internet Defenders as Court Upholds FCC Repeal of Net Neutrality "Big Cable's lobbyists will use this as an excuse to swarm Washington, D.C. The internet must come together once more to beat back corruption and defend our online freedom." Read more |
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'Most Important Climate Leader in the Senate': Green Groups Back Sen. Ed Markey in Primary Fight With Joe Kennedy "I like Joe Kennedy," said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). "I just don't know why he would choose to run against the climate change movement." Read more |
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Activists Who Confronted Mnuchin During UCLA Protest Now Facing Years in Jail "Mnuchin was bragging about killing sanctions and their politics of cruelty, but we're charged with 'disturbing the peace' for speaking loudly during his event!" Read more |
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'Does Anyone Think That's a Bad Thing?': Leaked Zuckerberg Audio Suggests Warren Vow to Break Up Facebook Has Tech Giant Spooked "I'm not afraid to hold Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon accountable," tweeted the 2020 candidate on Tuesday. "It's time to #BreakUpBigTech." Read more |
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Wall Street Execs Under Fire for Accepting 'Blood-Stained Invitation' to Saudi Investment Event One Year After Khashoggi Murder "It's not a principled stance for businesses to stand against the Saudi murderers of Jamal Khashoggi until they hope people have forgotten about him (which in any event they haven't)." Read more |
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Fueled by Teachers and Average Donation of $18, Sanders Raised Record $25.3 Million in Third Quarter "Bernie is proud to be the only candidate running to defeat Donald Trump who is 100 percent funded by grassroots donations—both in the primary and in the general." Read more |
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"It's a Criminal Enterprise": Calls to Impeach Barr Intensify After Reports AG Pressured Foreign Officials to Help Discredit Mueller Probe "Barr decided a long time ago that he was going to be a fixer for Donald Trump. Donald Trump's personal lawyer." Read more |
