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'Endemic Impunity': UN Report on Yemen Says United States, France, and Britain May Be Complicit in War Crimes

'Unjustified and Unnecessary': DHS Could Use Facial Recognition on 97% of Departing Airline Passengers

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Advocacy groups say the department's program poses a serious threat to civil liberties

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'Very Dark Day': Democrats Lash Out After McConnell Rams Through 'Nuclear Option' for Trump Judges

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington.

"Mitch McConnell just made it easier for Congress to rubber stamp Trump's...

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'If This Guy Can Be Senator, You Can Do Anything': Progressives Mock Mike Lee's Climate Speech

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Utah Senator Mike Lee delivers remarks on climate change.

" People like Mike Lee say ridiculous stuff on C-SPAN so that it will distract...

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'This Is Historic': US Senate Passes War Powers Resolution to End Complicity in World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis

'A Historic Chance to Take a Stand': Anti-War Groups Urge Senate to End US Complicity in Yemen

A man carries the coffin of a child at the funeral procession for those killed in an airstrike on a bus carried out last week by a warplane of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on August 13, 2018 in Saada, Yemen.

As Resolution to End US Complicity in Yemen Carnage Advances, Anti-War Voices Say, 'Now Is the Time to Call Your Lawmakers!'

Lawmakers Reintroduce War Powers Resolution To End Carnage in Yemen and Reclaim Congress' Constitutional Authority

'Disgusting!' Outrage as US Teams Up With Saudis to Undermine UN Resolution Endorsing Yemen Ceasefire

Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses war in Syria. (Photo: Screenshot)

The Bombings Will Continue: Phyllis Bennis Warns U.S. Military Role in Syria Is Not Actually Ending

Following "First Step" Bill's Passage, Progressives Warn Greater Reforms Needed to Truly "Right the Wrongs" of Mass Incarceration

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) spoke alongside Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) Thursday after the Senate passed their War Powers resolution to end U.S. involvment in the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

After Senate's Passage of War Powers Resolution, Sanders Tees Up Pressure on House to End US Involvement in Yemen

'Historic Victory' as Senate Votes to End U.S. Involvement in 'Unauthorized War' in Yemen

Ahead of Historic War Powers Vote to End US Complicity in Yemen, 'Tell Your Senators You'll Be Watching'

In Historic Vote, Senate Advances War Powers Resolution to End US Complicity in Saudi Assault on Yemen

'Yemen Can't Wait': Ahead of War Powers Vote, Urgent Push for Senate to End US Complicity in Saudi Atrocities

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Put Down Your Swords: After 18 Years, the Senate Was Finally, Ingloriously Shamed Into Doing Right By 9/11 Responders

After unconscionably stalling for almost two decades - while 200 more people died - the Senate voted 97-2 Tuesday to re-authorize funds for the 9/11 first responders compensation fund through 2092, or effectively in perpetuity. The bittersweet victory came after multiple lobbying trips by sick and dying workers, and a tenacious Jon Stewart, to plead for what was rightly theirs; said demolition worker John Feal, "What I'm going to miss the most about D.C. is - nothing."

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Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders, Lee, Khanna, Gaetz Lead Bipartisan Effort to Defund U.S. Role in Saudi War in Yemen

National Iranian-American Council

NIAC Statement on Senate Vote on Udall-Kaine Amendment

Peace Action

Most Senators Oppose War with Iran Without Congressional Approval

Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)

Senate Votes to End Illegal U.S. War in Yemen

Peace Action

Legislation Re-Introduced to End U.S. Role in Yemen War

Senator Bernie Sanders

Bipartisan Coalition in Senate and House Announce New Push to End U.S. Support for Saudi-led War in Yemen

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Kathleen Romig, Kathleen Bryant

Cutting Social Security to Offset Paid Parental Leave Would Weaken Retirement Security

Mashal Hashem, James Allen

How to Lobby Washington to Death

Will Bunch

As Floodwaters Rise, GOP Lawmakers are Frantically Building Levees of Climate Denial

Stephanie Kelton, Andres Bernal

We Can Pay for a Green New Deal

George Capaccio

Nothing Justifies the Killing of Children in Yemen. Nothing.

Mark Weisbrot

When Will America Stop Participating in Yemen's Genocidal War?

Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen, Pia Gallegos, Sam McCann, and Donna Smith

Democratic Autopsy: One Year Later

Jeff Cohen

Few Democrats Offer Alternatives to War-Weary Voters

William Hartung

Congress Can Help End the Suffering in Yemen

Kevin Martin

U.S. Support for the Bombing of Yemen to Continue, for Now