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Supreme Court Election Year Vacancy 'Would be Different' This Time From Merrick Garland in 2016, Says Lindsey Graham "These people don't even have an ounce of shame." Read more |
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'Slow Moving Coup': Outrage After Trump Quietly Fires State Department Inspector General Friday Night "What checks and balances do we have left?" Read more |
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'We Can and Must Do Better': House Passes Massive $3 Trillion Relief Package, But Progressives Say More Must Be Done " We must give people real relief and certainty before this crisis gets worse—because if we fail to do so, it will." Read more |
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Calling on Americans to Vote Trump Out, The Lancet Eviscerates US President Over 'Incoherent' Covid-19 Response "The Lancet isn't playing. They want Trump out." Read more |
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'Obvious Our President Is Beyond Incompetent': Chorus of Ridicule After Trump Brags of New 'Super-Duper Missile' "An actual quote by the sitting president of the United States." Read more |
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Sanders Bill Would Expand Medicare During Covid-19 Crisis Instead of Costlier Plan to Prop Up Private Insurers "No one in this country should be afraid to go to the doctor because of the cost—especially during a pandemic." Read more |
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Steny Hoyer Ripped by Progressive Primary Challenger for Backing Fossil Fuel Bailout in Covid-19 Bill "This is not the time to invest in dirty energy through federal petroleum purchases." Read more |
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Former Inslee Staffers Urge Biden and House Dems to Embrace $1.2 Trillion Green Stimulus as Part of Covid-19 Recovery "It's time for an all-out national mobilization to defeat the climate crisis." Read more |
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Whistleblower: Wall Street Has Engaged in Widespread Manipulation of Mortgage Funds Securities that contain loans for properties like hotels and office buildings have inflated profits, the whistleblower claims. As the pandemic hammers the economy, that could increase the chances of another mortgage collapse. Read more |
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'We Should Be Leading With Bold Ideas': Despite Progressive Objections, House Pushes HEROES Act Forward "This unprecedented crisis needs us to show leadership today, not tomorrow." Read more |
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'The Future We Want': London Joining Global Trend of Car-Free Streets to Cut Pollution, Fight Covid-19 "London's road to recovery cannot be clogged with cars," says Mayor Sadiq Khan. Read more |
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DeVos's Channeling of CARES Act Funds Seen as Boosting 'Perennial Goal' of Advancing Voucher Program New reporting on the Education Secretary's directing of the money follows concern by a House Democrat that DeVos may be hampering "the response of public school systems in the states most severely impacted by the coronavirus crisis." Read more |
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'Anything But Secure': Advocates Decry USDA Rule Allowing Big Ag to Set Its Own Regulations on GMOs "The new regulations finalized by USDA, paradoxically named the SECURE rule, are anything but secure." Read more |
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'Shameful Does Not Even Begin to Describe' Trump EPA Decision on Chemical Known to Damage Children's Brains "Yet another abdication of duty by those that are entrusted with protecting Americans from needless and preventable harm." Read more |
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'They Came to Kill the Mothers': MSF Mourns After Sinister Attack on Maternity Ward in Kabul "This country is sadly used to seeing horrific events. But what happened Tuesday is beyond words." Read more |
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'Why Democrats Lose Elections': Clyburn Admits Paycheck Guarantee Best Way to Save Jobs—But Says It Costs Too Much An analysis of the paycheck guarantee proposal showed it would cost less than what Congress has already appropriated for its flawed small business loan program. Read more |
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DeVos Sued Over New Title IX Rules That Make It 'Easier for Schools to Sweep Sexual Violence Under the Rug' "Betsy DeVos and the Trump administration have shown, once again, that they have no interest in supporting student survivors and their rights." Read more |
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US Postal Service Reportedly Considering Price Hikes as Trump's Takeover of the Beloved Agency Accelerates "President Trump's clear intent is to raise prices and force a crisis at the Post Office so that his political benefactors at the corporate shippers can increase their company profits at the expense of the people." Read more |
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Healthcare Workers Appalled as Trump Says Nurses 'Running Into Death' to Treat Covid-19 Patients Is 'A Beautiful Thing to See' "A sick and twisted sentiment... Inadequate PPE is not beautiful." Read more |
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Deans of Public Health Schools to Trump: Triple Daily Covid-19 Testing Now or US 'Doomed' to Vicious Shutdown Cycle "All recommendations agree that the cornerstone for not only bending the curve, but bringing the virus to heel, is widely available intensive testing and the ability to trace and quarantine." Read more |
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'150,000 Americans Sacrificed for the Stock Market': Kushner Reportedly Advised Less Covid-19 Testing to Calm Wall Street "Kushner's advice did nothing to prevent a market crash, and it's likely that the administration's refusal to act in time only threw the economy into more chaos." Read more |
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'No Excuse': Senate Slammed for Reauthorizing Government Spy Powers Without Crucial Privacy Protections One advocate declared "it would be dangerously irresponsible for the House to pass this reauthorization." Read more |
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Bad News for Biden as New Battleground States Poll Shows Trump Could Lose Popular Vote But Win White House—Again "Really getting 'reliving the exact same nightmare all over again' vibes lately." Read more |
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We Need 'Single Payer Like Yesterday': Medicare for All Case Made as 16.2 Million Lose Employer-Tied Insurance "While Americans may like their employer-provided coverage when they have it, contra Obama, they can't always keep it." Read more |
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Reviving Emoluments Case, Federal Court Says Trump's Legal Objections 'Gravely Offend Separation of Powers' The president, said head of watchdog group, "should finally do the right thing and end the harms caused by his unconstitutional conduct." Read more |
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Demanding 'Unprecedented' Action From Congress, Sanders Says HEROES Act Must Include Medicare Expansion and $2,000 Monthly Payments "The Senate must improve this legislation if we are to adequately address the two most urgent needs facing working families right now: healthcare and economic security." Read more |
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'Trapped in a Nightmare Situation': Philippines Typhoon Offers Glimpse of Climate Disaster Amid Pandemic "A global pandemic does not mean the climate crisis has stopped," says 350.org. "If anything, it has only exacerbated the problem." Read more |
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Trump Accused of 'Weaponizing' Pandemic as Administration Weighs Extending Ban on Border Asylum Claims Indefinitely "This ban was never about the pandemic, and it was never about public health." Read more |
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Government Watchdog Sounds Alarm Over Appointment of Former Pharma Executive to Trump's Covid-19 Vaccine Task Force "If the Trump administration approaches vaccine development as it has Covid-19 prevention, testing and treatment, the world may be in for years of more extraordinary pain," said Public Citizen. Read more |
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140+ Global Leaders Call for Free "People's Vaccine" to Put Human Lives Above Corporate Greed in Fight Against Covid-19 "Diplomatic platitudes are not enough—we need legal guarantees, and we need them now." Read more |
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'Slap in the Face': As Bezos Wealth Jumps $30 Billion Amid Pandemic, Amazon to End $2 Per Hour Hazard Pay for Workers "It just shows how very little regard Amazon has for its overworked employees." Read more |
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WATCH LIVE: Whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright Testifies on Failures of Trump Administration's Covid-19 Response The ousted federal scientist is expected to offer damning testimony. Read more |
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Downplaying Threat Covid-19 Poses to Children, Trump Calls Fauci's Cautions Over Reopening Schools 'Unacceptable' "This isn't complicated. Dr. Fauci is a highly decorated scientist and doctor, a respected medical expert who spent his life leading American efforts to fight infectious diseases. Trump is a compulsive liar who suggested we could fight Covid-19 by injecting people with bleach." Read more |
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'We Are Going to Have More Deaths,' Warns Wisconsin Governor as State Supreme Court Strikes Down Stay-at-Home Order "We are in the wild west," said Democratic Gov. Tony Evers following the court's ruling. Read more |
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'Monstrous Cruelty: As Hunger Soars, Trump USDA Resumes Effort to Take Nutrition Benefits From More Than a Million People "The administration has decided that now—amid the most pervasive need in a century—is a great time to crack down on Americans who rely on food stamps." Read more |
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Warning US Could Face 'Darkest Winter in Modern History,' Ousted Whistleblower Demands Science-Based Pandemic Response "If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Calls for Guarantee That Covid-19 Vaccine Be Free to All Assuring all Americans have access to a vaccine is both "the moral thing to do" and "good public health policy," said the Vermont senator. Read more |
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Amid Pandemic, Pompeo Heads to Israel to 'Provoke War With Iran,' Ensure West Bank Annexation Rights groups accuse the Trump administration of giving "Israeli authorities the greenlight to continue violating international laws." Read more |
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'A Hero and a Trailblazer': Aimee Stephens, Plaintiff in Historic Trans Rights Supreme Court Case, Dies at 59 "Our country owes her a debt of gratitude for her commitment to justice for all people and her dedication to our transgender community." Read more |
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Amid Growing Antitrust Concerns, Facebook Goes 'Faceless' in DC With New Lobby Group "No surprise—it's fighting back as lawmakers conduct an antitrust probe and are realizing what happens when we leave tech monopolies unchecked." Read more |
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Warning HEROES Act "Doesn't Do Nearly Enough," Progressive Group Calls on House to Vote Down Democrats' Covid-19 Bill "Progressives must oppose this bill so as to stop being taken for granted and to set us on a course that leads to stronger legislation moving forward." Read more |
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If This 'Doesn't Give You Chills I Don't Know What Will': McConnell Patriot Act Expansion Would Hand AG Barr Unprecedented Spy Powers "These amendments would pretty much guarantee the ability of an incumbent administration to spy on its political opponents without consequence." Read more |
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Watchdog Demands Probe After Energy Secretary Admits WH Pressed Fed to Give Oil Companies Access to Covid-19 Funds "These Fed facilities are not supposed to direct aid specifically to certain companies or industries—particularly not ones that were in dire financial shape even before the coronavirus crisis began." Read more |
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Oxfam Report Details 'Catastrophic Failure' of Efforts to Coordinate Global Ceasefire During Covid-19 Crisis "Managing coronavirus is hard enough when a country is at peace but fueling conflict on top of a pandemic is reprehensible." Read more |
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'Manafort Released. But [Insert Name] Still Locked Up': Special Treatment for Trump Crony Denounced "I'm not upset Paul Manafort was released," said one criminal justice reform advocate. "As always, I'm upset that people who aren't rich, white, & connected (nearly everyone of the millions currently caged) aren't treated with the same care, consideration, or humanity." Read more |
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'Massive Giveaway to Health Insurance CEOs': Democratic COBRA Plan Denounced as Costly Taxpayer Gift to For-Profit Industry "We're facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression—subsidizing the insurers is not going to cut it." Read more |
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Vowing to Be 'Fully Accountable' to Movement, Ocasio-Cortez Joins Biden's Climate Crisis Task Force "I commend Joe Biden for working together with my campaign to assemble a group of leading thinkers and activists who can and will unify our party in a transformational and progressive direction," Sen. Bernie Sanders said. Read more |
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'Major Victory for the Progressive Movement' as Congressional Hopeful Kara Eastman Wins Nebraska Primary "We need people like [Eastman] in Congress to join the fights on healthcare, tackling student debt, and taking on corporate power." Read more |
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Led by Sanders and Omar, 300+ Global Lawmakers Call on IMF, World Bank to Cancel All Debt of Poor Nations Amid Covid-19 Crisis "The steps that our international coalition of lawmakers is proposing are not radical," said Sanders. "It is the very least that these financial institutions should do to prevent an unimaginable increase in poverty, hunger, and disease." Read more |
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Jayapal Rips Democratic Covid-19 Bill: "Doesn't End Mass Unemployment" or "Ensure Affordable Healthcare for Everyone" "The historic crisis Americans are facing will not end on its own. To end it, these three things—getting people paychecks, ensuring access to healthcare, supporting businesses and their workers—are critical. But this legislation does not yet address them at the scale necessary." Read more |
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Vote-by-Mail Under 'Existential Threat' as Top US Postal Service Official Reportedly Forced Out "Trump is intent on installing his partisan lackeys in control of the Postal Service while congressional Republicans try to force it into insolvency so they can privatize it." Read more |
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House Democrats Denounced for Covid-19 Relief Bill That Leaves 'Door Wide Open' for Fossil Fuel Bailouts "Democratic leadership must get this right," warned one climate group, "because the fate of our habitable planet depends on it." Read more |
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Warning Against Swift Reopening of Economy, Fauci Admits Covid-19 Death Toll 'Almost Certainly Higher' Than Official 80,000+ Meanwhile, new poll shows majority of Americans believe federal government not doing enough to stop resurgence of outbreak. Read more |
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President 'Not Above the Law,' Say Groups, as Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Trump Subpoena Cases With Vast Implications "The American people have the right to know whether the president is abusing power, concealing illegal activities, or dodging his taxes." Read more |
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'Our Democracy Can Never Be an Afterthought': Congress Urged to Include Vote-by-Mail in Next Covid-19 Package "Congress must continue to invest in our democracy this year or else we’ll face potentially catastrophic consequences." Read more |
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'No Excuse for This': House Dems Unveil 1,815-Page Bill That Would Bail Out Corporate Lobbyists But Omits Key People-First Priorities "Democratic leadership has had plenty of input from progressive thinkers over the past couple of months. They just care more about the input from corporate lobbyists." Read more |
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As Covid-19 Devastates Navajo Nation, Doctors Without Borders Dispatches Team to Battle Outbreak "You're telling people, 'Wash your hands for 20 seconds multiple times a day,' and they don't have running water." Read more |
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'Disaster Capitalism at Its Worst': Report Details Big Oil's Efforts to Cash In on Coronavirus "Polluters fought hard for kickbacks in the first coronavirus stimulus package and they are undoubtedly up to it again." Read more |
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As Pandemic Rattles Global Food System, Report Deems Mass Malnutrition World's Top Killer "The need for more equitable, resilient, and sustainable food and health systems has never been more urgent." Read more |
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Again Finding US Permit Invalid, Federal Court Upholds Block on 'Climate-Busting' Keystone XL Construction "Our courts have shown time and time again that the law matters." Read more |
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Senate Staffer Warns Congress 'Sleepwalking Toward a Gut-Wrenching, Painful Failure' on Covid-19 Relief "Congress appears to be on its way to passing a half-assed bill that underachieves on public health, families/workers, state/local governments, businesses," the senior Democratic aide fretted. Read more |
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WATCH: Dr. Anthony Fauci Testifies Before the Senate on Covid-19 Pandemic "If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to 'Open America Again,' then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country." Read more |
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Trump Labor Department Encourages States to Help Employers Report Workers Who Stay Home Due to Covid-19 Fears "There's a plague outside but the Trump administration is strongly encouraging states to solicit employer tips on workers staying home." Read more |
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Continuing to Push for Reopening of Economy, White House Takes Extra Precautions As Two Staffers Test Positive for Coronavirus "The do what I say, not what I do, mindset at the White House continues." Read more |
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'The Next Crisis': Up to 43 Million Americans Could Lose Health Insurance Due to Pandemic, Study Shows "The American healthcare financing system was not built to withstand the combined impact of a pandemic and a recession." Read more |
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'Criminal Negligence': Trump Officials Ignored Company's Offer to Make 7 Million N95 Masks Per Month in Early Days of Pandemic Federal scientist Rick Bright described his communications with Prestige Ameritech in his whistleblower report regarding the administration's response to the Covid-19 crisis. Read more |
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'Not Today. Not Tomorrow. Not Ever': Indigenous Campaigners Protest As KXL Pipeline Construction Begins Amid Legal Challenges "This pipeline will not be built." Read more |
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Progressive Group Denounces Roberts' Refusal to Investigate Federal Judge's Retirement Demand Justice accused Roberts of "covering up Mitch McConnell's court-packing project." Read more |
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US Blocks UN Global Ceasefire Resolution, Objecting to Indirect Reference to World Health Organization "It's bad enough that Trump is responsible for so many deaths in his own country, now he is actively complicit in causing even more across the globe." Read more |
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'About As Evil As It Gets': As State Reopens, Ohio Urges Employers to Snitch on Workers Who Stay Home Due to Covid-19 Concerns Less than a week after some industries reopened, about 1,200 workers across the state have been reported to the government. Read more |
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House Democrats Call on Inspector General to Investigate "Improper Political Interference" of Barr's DOJ "The American people deserve to know the full extent of the politicization of the Department of Justice. They deserve a Department that is guided by the facts and the law, and not by the President’s political interests." Read more |
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Probe by Federal Agency Finds 'Reasonable Grounds to Believe' HHS Whistleblower's Ouster Was Retaliation by Trump Officials "This country is in an unprecedented health crisis and needs the expertise of Dr. Bright to lead the nation’s efforts to combat Covid-19," said whistleblower's lawyers. Read more |
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Fears of Bolsonaro's Threat to the Amazon Realized as New Data Shows Rainforest Destruction Up 55% "Bolsonaro is not only turning a blind eye as land grabbers, illegal loggers, and miners continue to plunder Indigenous territories during the pandemic, he plans to make things easier for them." Read more |
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Warren Calls Out 'Economic Disaster' and 'Moral Failure' Brought on by Ineptitude and Cruelty of Trump and the GOP "Trump wants to close his eyes and pretend that sending people back to work right now will magically solve all our problems. But every day that he refuses to lead on the public health crisis killing thousands of Americans daily is adding years to our economic recovery." Read more |
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'What a Rigged Economy Looks Like,' Says Sanders, as Stock Market Enjoys Best Month in 33 Years Despite 20%+ Unemployment " We need to start valuing human life over corporate profits," said Rep. Ilhan Omar. Read more |
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'A Cancer on Justice in This Nation': Fresh Demand for Barr's Resignation—or Impeachment—After Flynn Charges Dropped "We renew our call," said Common Cause's president Friday, for Congress "to impeach William Barr before he does irreparable damage to the system of justice in our nation." Read more |
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'Huge Moment for the Movement': New Orleans City Council Unanimously Backs Medicare for All The resolution passed Thursday endorses federal legislation ensuring comprehensive healthcare coverage both for the duration of the pandemic and beyond. Read more |
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To Prevent 'Monopoly Free-for-All,' Congress and Fed Urged to Bar Use of Covid-19 Funds for Corporate Mergers "We can't afford to allow big corporations to further consolidate power in this moment of crisis." Read more |
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Trump Admits He 'Learned A Lot' From Disgraced President Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre Trump's comments suggest "he learned from Nixon's mistakes how not to get caught," said Kate Brannen of Just Security. Read more |
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'Most Cataclysmic' Jobs Report of Our Lifetime Shows US Unemployment Soaring to Level Not Seen Since Great Depression While the official government figure is 14.7% for April, some economists estimate the actual unemployment rate is around 23.6%. Read more |
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UN Chief Warns Against Global 'Tsunami of Hate and Xenophobia' Unleashed by Covid-19 The fresh statement from the United Nations secretary-general is an appeal to "strengthen the immunity of our societies against the virus of hate." Read more |
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Because One Check 'Not Nearly Enough,' Harris, Sanders, and Markey Bill Would Provide $2,000 Monthly Payments for Rest of Covid-19 Crisis "If we can bail out large corporations, we can make sure that everyone in this country has enough income to pay for the basic necessities of life." Read more |
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'My God,' Says US Senator After William Barr Deploys 'History Is Written by the Winners' Trope "The head of the American justice system now saying publicly that there is no good or bad except what the strongest want," said another critic. "The definition of autocracy." Read more |
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Two Men Arrested and Charged With Murder for Killing of Ahmaud Arbery After Video Sparked Nationwide Demands for Justice "These men were vigilantes, they were a posse, they were performing a lynching in the middle of the day." Read more |
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Trump Signs Executive Order Greenlighting 'Corporate Takeover of Our Oceans While They Hope We Aren't Paying Attention' "Trump is exploiting a public health crisis to help an industry known for pumping diseases and antibiotics into oceans." Read more |
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Barr Accused of 'Capturing Justice System' for Benefit of Trump as DOJ Drops Case Against Michael Flynn "Fairness, independence, and the rule of law are principles that have no meaning to Barr. This is a dark day for the Justice Department." Read more |
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Consumer Groups Warn Against Shielding Corporate Giants From Covid-19 Liability Lawsuits "Businesses' calls for immunity are premised on a false choice between the return to a healthy economy and allowing businesses to be held accountable if they cause people to get sick." Read more |
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Schumer Says Democrats About to Go "Rooseveltian" on Covid-19 Relief. Progressives Say We Hope So "Let's see what they propose. Not holding hope too high though." Read more |