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Demanding End to 'Unprecedented' Secrecy, Senators Say Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself About Role in Post-9/11 Torture Program

Senate Dems Threaten Suit to Get Kavanaugh Records as Poll Shows Trump Nominee Least Popular in Decades

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh

"Not only is Brett Kavanaugh extreme, he's wildly unpopular. The momentum is on our side, and we're not done yet."

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Senate Dems Demand 'Immediate Action' to Reunite Immigrant Families Torn Apart by Trump

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

immigrant kids

"Leading medical experts have condemned family separations as causing children...

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Though "Too Late" Now, Cables From Secret CIA Black Site Read Like Gina Haspel's "Torture Journaling"

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Haspel

Critics say this "detailed account" of the CIA director's role "in horrendous...

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Attacking Everything From Contraception Access to Wage Equality, 15 Members of Congress Named 'Worst for Women'

President Donald Trump on Thursday pushed the House and Senate to pass a version of the farm bill that includes work requirements for families who receive food stamps.

In Latest Attempt to Harm Struggling Families, Trump Urges Lawmakers to Push One Million Americans Off Food Stamp Program

As the Washington Post's Jeff Stein noted on Twitter, the legislation will hit Trump's desk at a time when "military spending, adjusted for inflation, is higher than at any point outside the Iraq War."

40 Senate Democrats Vote to Send $717B Military Spending Bill to Trump's Desk

What Do Novelist Stephen King and Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke Have in Common? They Both Want Ted Cruz Out of the Senate and Trump Impeached

red wolf

As GOP Pushes Overhaul, Conservationists Mobilize to Save 'Endangered Species Act From Extinction'

With Trump Ready to Name Far-Right Justice, Poll Shows Nearly 70 Percent in US Want Roe v. Wade Upheld

'Schumer and Pelosi Have to Go': Top Democrats Under Fire for Urging 'Civility' in Face of Trump's Vicious Agenda

Millions Lack Food, Housing, and Healthcare, But 38 Democrats Just Joined GOP to Spend $716 Billion on Endless War and Empire

Sanders Says McConnell Cancelled August Recess Because He's "Scared to Death" GOP Will Lose Senate

'Uphill Battle,' But Net Neutrality Defenders Say Victory in House Possible

Gina Haspel

'Black Mark in Our History': Six Democrats Join GOP to Confirm Torturer Gina Haspel as CIA Chief

CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel

Democrats Shamed for Supporting Gina Haspel, CIA Nominee Who Oversaw 'Chaining Detainees to Ceiling for Days, Naked or in Diapers'

Further

Most cringeworthy moment of a too-often cringeworthy Congress, ever: The pallid churlish leaders of the House and Senate forced by circumstance - a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony honoring Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King - to hold hands and join in an excruciating, swaying, bumbling rendition of "We Shall Overcome." Mitch McConnell wins the Deer In Headlights Award, by a graceless hair. Maybe one day we'll overcome these people. Here's Pete Seeger, doing it right.

Newswire

Fight for the Future

Fight for the Future Statement on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s Senate committee Testimony in Response to the Agency’s Fake DDoS Attack

Peace Action

Senate Takes Small Step to End Horrific Yemen War

Common Cause

Senate Draws Line in Sand to Protect Mueller Russia Investigation

UltraViolet

UltraViolet on the Senate Rules Change Allowing New Parents to Bring Their Children on the Senate Floor

Win Without War

U.S. Senate Sends Loud Message That Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen Must End.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Senate Vote To Weaken Important Banking Regulations

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Views

Will Bunch

Can Elizabeth Warren's Big New Idea Save Capitalism (and America) From Itself?

Brian Terrell

Two Interrogations, Gina Haspel and Adolf Eichmann

Tim Karr

Red Alert for Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know

Basav Sen

Impeach Scott Pruitt for Dismantling the EPA, Not His First-Class Flights

India McKinney

Congress Held Ten Hours of Hearings on Facebook. What’s Next?

Elliot Harmon

How Congress Censored the Internet

Russell Mokhiber

Elizabeth Warren Unveils Legislation to Hold Wall Street Executives Criminally Accountable

Christopher Anders

What the Senate Needs to Know About Gina Haspel

Richard Eskow

The $24 Million Reasons Dems Back America’s Worst Banks

Mark Weisbrot

Congress Must Act Now to End America's Atrocities in Yemen

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