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Biden Urged to Pick Appointees Who Will Strongly Enforce Antitrust Laws Against Big Tech
"America is facing a crisis of online misinformation that is eroding faith in our democratic institutions, threatening public health, stoking radical extremism, and fanning the flames of hatred and division," an anti-monopoly coalition warned on April 15, 2021. (Photo Illustration: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Biden's Embrace of Trump-Era Fentanyl Ban 'Threatens to Repeat Past Missteps,' Critics Warn
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Paul Harkin, director of harm reduction at GLIDE, speaks with a person on an alleyway that is popular with people who use drugs on February 3, 2020. Harkin provides narcan, fentanyl detection packets, and tinfoil to people struggling with addiction as a part of outreach on the streets of San Francisco. (Photo: Nick Otto/Washington Post via Getty Images)
One expert urged policymakers to "rethink these efforts to double down on fear-based, enforcement-first approaches, and instead invest in public health alternatives."
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Biden Praised for Taking 'Crucial First Step' to 'Prioritize People Over Guns'
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
President Joe Biden speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 8, 2021. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
"The idea that we have so many people dying every single day from gun violence...
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As Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Pleads Guilty, Advocates Warn of 'Profound Threat' to Free Press
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale (R) stands next to CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin in this undated photo. (Photo:Democracy Now!)
"Using the Espionage Act in this way to prosecute journalists' sources as spies...
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Bloomington, Indiana anti-death-penalty activist Glenda Breeden holds a lamp on Jan. 12, 2021 while protesting against the then-pending execution of Lisa Montgomery, and two others, at Terre Haute Federal Prison this week. Montgomery was to be put to death on Wednesday. President Donald Trump's administration has sped up the execution of prisoners on death row during the last months of his presidency. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
UN Experts Urge Biden to Abolish 'Inherently Flawed' Death Penalty
Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel at Our Children's Trust, stands with some of the youth plaintiffs from the landmark lawsuit <em>Juliana v. United States</em>. (Photo: courtesy of Robin Loznak)
Youth Climate Activists Seek Court Ruling That US Fossil Fuel-Based System Is Unconstitutional
Children and teenagers filed a climate lawsuit against the U.S. government in 2015. (Photo: Our Children's Trust, with permission)
After 9th Circuit Decision, Youth Climate Campaigners Vow to Take Landmark Case to Supreme Court
A placard by protesters lies on ground during the demonstration in Barcelona on January 25, 2021 against the imprisonment of Julian Assange.
'Free Assange' Demands Grow as Biden DOJ Says It Will Continue to Seek Extradition
Ecuador rightly accepted Assange’s concerns that the US would seek his extradition and lock him out of sight for the rest of his life. (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)
Press Freedom Groups Urge Biden DOJ to Drop 'Disastrous' Charges Against Assange
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) presides over a hearing about the influence of social media companies on the 2020 election on November 17, 2020 in Washington, D.C.
Lindsey Graham Under Fire for Latest Blockade of Merrick Garland's Senate Confirmation
A migrant holds a sign reading "Biden: light the way for humane immigration reform," as advocates and migrants demonstrate at San Ysidro crossing port during a vigil in Tijuana, Baja California del Norte, Mexico on January 19, 2021, ahead of now-President Joe Biden's inauguration. (Photo: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images)
'We Need to Continue to Fight': Federal Judge Blocks Biden's 100-Day Freeze on Deportations
President Joe Biden signed a series of racial justice executive orders and memoranda at the White House on January 26, 2021. (Photo: Dog Mills/Getty Images)
'A Big Step': Progressives Welcome Biden Executive Order Ending DOJ Private Prison Contracts, But Say This Is Just the Start
Former Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark speaks next to Then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 2020. (Photo: Yuri Gripas/AFP via Getty Images)
Inspector General Launches Probe Into Whether DOJ Officials Tried to Overturn Presidential Election
A Honduran child taken from his father after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border together in June 2018. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
'Damning' New IG Report, Says ACLU, Shows Just How Far Trump Team 'Was Willing to Go to Destroy' Immigrant Families
College students and community members wearing face masks hold placards while gathering in Bloomington, Indiana to protest against the death penalty and a wave of executions at the Terre Haute federal prison during the final months of President Donald Trump's administration. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Acting US AG Rosen Urged to Postpone Three Executions Planned for This Week Due to Pandemic
Federal Judge Merrick Garland delivers remarks after being nominated to be U.S. attorney general by President-elect Joe Biden at The Queen theater January 7, 2021 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Biden Attorney General Pick Merrick Garland Urged to Establish DOJ Task Force to Probe Trump Crimes

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