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“The game is we cast doubt on 2020, we pass voter suppression laws…. If we get ahold of the House and the Senate in 2022, we...
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In short, the Biden administration could find ways around the legal weapons that Moderna and Pfizer might use to block the transfer...
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Americans in households with annual incomes from $50,000 to $75,000 experienced the sharpest increase in food insufficiency when the...
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Democrats could just end the legislative filibuster anytime they want and repeal the debt limit. But if they have to go the...
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“Now is the time to lift the cloud of nuclear conflict for good, eliminate nuclear weapons from our world, and usher in a new...
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They call it a $3.5 trillion spending bill. More accurately, it’s a $60 billion-a-year investment bill. Imagine how different the...
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It’s one thing to oppose portions of the infrastructure/reconciliation package. It’s another to argue that opposition is...
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“AUKUS is the next step in a new cold war with China,” said one opponent of the trilateral agreement. “It makes the...
read moreAn explosive investigative report by Yahoo News has revealed plans at the highest levels of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...
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In Michigan on Friday, a top Republican National Committee (RNC) official informed Republican leaders of the party’s plan to continue...
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The warning signs may be obscured by the distractions of politics, the pandemic, the economy and global crises, and by wishful...
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Haitians have suffered from discriminatory treatment in immigration for decades, and it would, I believe, be naïve to attribute this...
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Any lingering doubts about the premeditated nature of the first Trump coup and the events of January 6 have been laid to rest by the...
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Palestinians are left with two choices: to accept defeat and submit to the will of Zionist colonizers, or to say “no” and remain...
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Pretending they don’t exist, said one advocacy group, “is how he justifies stealing their land, detaining their children,...
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A top-level Pentagon official has reportedly been dismissed for the crime of being skeptical about our nuclear weapons policies....
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering employing the National Guard and out-of-state medical workers to fill hospital staffing...
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“Which cities will follow its lead?” asked one advocate, after 56% of voters told Berlin’s municipal government to...
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Amember of the congressional select committee tasked with investigating the January 6 Capitol riot said that if the four individuals...
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One analyst predicted COVID boosters alone will bring in about $26 billion in global sales next year for Pfizer — who splits...
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The GOP used the debt ceiling to force spending cuts in 2011. It can’t be allowed again. Source: Opinion | Abolish the Debt Ceiling....
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Republican appointees on the US Supreme Court cracked open the door for professional grifters in 1976 when, for the first time in...
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To make these submarines, including Australia’s, we are talking about commitment to a very long-term and large-scale program...
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as currently written, Democrats’ legislation wouldn’t roll out the new dental coverage until 2028, a lag that progressives say is...
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Advocacy groups argue the company is trying to bully critics. Source: ‘Chilling’: Facial recognition firm Clearview AI...
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Vaccination rates among police officers lag behind those of communities in which they work in major U.S. cities, though the disease...
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised to hire any Border Patrol agents who get in trouble for what President Biden called...
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This big, scary-sounding number represents just 1.2 percent of U.S. GDP over the next 10 years. Source: Build Back Better Costs Much...
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Germany’s center-left Social Democrats won the biggest share of the vote in a national election Sunday, narrowly beating outgoing...
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In a leaked email, No Labels’ director praised Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for her “heroic efforts” on the infrastructure bill. Source:...
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A judge has ordered the Trump Organization to hand over Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr.’s company devices to the New York Attorney...
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We are deeply disappointed in the ICC chief prosecutor’s decision to ‘deprioritize’ investigations into possible war crimes and...
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The Bureau of Prisons has piloted a program that can give authorities “huge secret intelligence into the public sender of postal...
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The latest passage of the NDAA “is particularly strong evidence that Pentagon contractors’ interests easily take...
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“Pennsylvania — the closest battleground state with the most electoral votes, where the election was called for Biden...
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The Democratic Party is either going to be the party of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt or the Party of Thomas Dewey and Dwight...
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One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only barely beginning to understand Source:...
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National advocacy groups and unions representing millions of Americans came together on a national mobilization call with U.S. Sen....
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2000’s Bush v. Gore should have shattered “the facade” utterly, but didn’t. Why? For one thing, 9/11. For...
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Using Taliban imagery to decry the Texas abortion ban is an old colonial move that reeks of Islamophobia. Source: References to the...
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For decades, the anti-choice movement has focused on state- and local-level victories. Now, the abortion-rights movement is too....
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The pharmaceutical company’s CEO, Stéphane Bancel, told the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung he believed there would soon be...
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On Jan. 6, a mob took clear direction from Donald Trump and other political leaders to turn dangerous sentiments into violent...
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Some of the plots to overturn the election happened in secret. But don’t forget the ones that unfolded in the open. Source:...
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Pelosi told fellow Democrats Saturday that they “must” pass the social and environment package this week, along with a separate...
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The disconnect between Biden’s campaign promise and his use of a Trump-era public health order to kick out migrants is exacting a...
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“What happened in January 2021 was not a passing storm in American politics. It’s part of a new climate inside of the Republican...
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“The solution is to blow up the filibuster at least for debt limit votes, just as Mitch blew it up to pack the Supreme Court...
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“Our troops are not coming home. We need to be honest about that,” Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-New Jersey) said during congressional...
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But he stressed that GOP voter suppression and extreme gerrymandering could only truly be combated if Congress passed federal...
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Walensky issued a statement saying she had restored the recommendation.“As CDC Director, it is my job to recognize where our actions...
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Once again, Senate Democrats are allowing a nonbinding ruling by the Senate parliamentarian to torpedo their agenda. Could the Dems...
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House Democrats on Ways and Means decided to raise revenue the traditional way, taxing annual income rather than immense wealth. They...
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American democracy is in the midst of a waking nightmare, says Rick Hasen. And Democrats aren’t taking it seriously enough. Source:...
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Susanne Craig, David Barstow and Russell Buettner received a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for explanatory reporting for their series of...
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On Thursday, September 23rd, Congressman Andy Levin (MI-9) introduced the Two-State Solution Act with over twenty Democratic...
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Modeling a proposal that would cap U.S. prices at 120% of what is paid in six other nations, researchers found that such a move would...
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18 months of delayed treatments may be starting to take their toll. Source: Thousands more people than usual are dying …...
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To a large extent, the whole idea of using January. 6 as a lever to tip over democracy came from Bannon. As the recent book Peril...
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“This is a moment of crisis,” said one activist. “We cannot allow the filibuster, or anything else, to stand in the...
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At least three promising antivirals that could prevent symptoms and limit transmission of Covid-19 are in clinical trials. Source: A...
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While big corporations tell Americans how virtuous they are, they lobby up a storm against Biden’s social policy bill Source: Why...
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It remains to be seen how Pennsylvania Republicans will respond to the Cyber Ninjas’ findings, but lawmakers in Harrisburg have...
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Since 2019, deforestation and fires have caused the Brazilian Amazon to lose about 10,000 square kilometers of forest cover per year...
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Unlike other nuclear treaties and agreements, the TPNW, or nuclear ban treaty as it is also known, prohibits all activity including...
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To mark the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, September 26, Veterans For Peace is publishing an Open...
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Police reforms in Congress are at an impasse, and even if they are revived, none addresses this important issue. It’s now up to the...
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EPA whistleblowers have provided evidence that agency officials avoided calculating the health risks posed by hundreds of new...
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While Republican lawmakers in several states are working to replicate an abortion ban recently enacted in Texas, healthcare providers...
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The U.S. is once again attempting to overthrow a legitimate head of state in Africa, this time in Ethiopia, where they want to put...
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DHS told NBC News it is not sending “and will not send Haitian nationals being encountered at the southwest border” to...
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Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions. Source:...
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Ice-chilled, powered by the sun, and cold for weeks without electricity, the future of refrigeration is here — and just in time....
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He asserted that Israel has usurped by military force fully half of the land that had been dedicated to the Palestinian state....
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The amendment failed 198-231. Only 2 Republicans voted for it, libertarians Tom Massie (KY) and Tom McClintock (CA), while 22...
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Who knew that all it would take for the Biden administration to secure the southern border and enforce immigration laws was to have...
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“No to military alliances and preparation for catastrophic wars,” anti-war campaigners from over a dozen nations write in...
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Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to enact new rules to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping...
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Our Black Girls centers on the often-untold stories of Black girls and women who have gone missing or, in some cases, were found dead...
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The prime-time host plays a purist on air. A former colleague’s first-person account presents a contrast. Source: Opinion |...
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Michigan is planning to build the first public road in the United States where electric vehicles can charge wirelessly while driving,...
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Seventeen recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have signed an open letter in support of President Biden’s...
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“I think we can agree the United States shouldn’t default on any of its obligations and should pay them when due,”...
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The U.S.’s special envoy to Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Foote, abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid ongoing turmoil at the U.S.-Mexico...
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The bipartisan infrastructure bill “doesn’t contain the climate solutions and care, education, and economic investments...
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It is the US that has caused all the changes and conflicts that give the global community such a strong impression that a new cold...
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A competition for space dominance between the United States and rival powers China and Russia prompted the Trump administration and...
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Everyone will meet with the virus eventually, but doing so safely (while vaccinated) is key Source: Accept It: COVID Will Be an...
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Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former communications official Dan Scavino, former Defense Department official Kash...
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We need a reinvigorated anti-war movement. It is time to end all U.S. wars, shut down all U.S. military bases, and put an end to U.S....
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Today, Taysha Martineau, an Indigenous leader and founder of the Line 3 resistance camp Camp Migizi declined to accept an award for...
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California on Wednesday became the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere...
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From Facebook to Venmo, staying on top of your privacy starts with these key settings. Source: A guide to every privacy setting you...
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In his time on D.C.’s Public Service Commission and before that as a corporate lawyer, Phillips consistently sided with utilities...
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The U.S. needs to stop deportations, pass a pathway to citizenship, and invest tax dollars in programs that benefit all of us....
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By creating a database of Palestinian land ownership, the Kushan Baladi initiative confronts Israel’s claims over historic...
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New Legal Campaign Aims to Protect People and Nature From Polluters’ ‘Irreparable Damage'”States must listen to...
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Ramping up climate-harming emissions, pushing monocultures, diverting resources from agroecology are just some of the results Source:...
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This would add to 750 existing American bases abroad, according to a new Quincy study hot off the presses today. Source: Not just...
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SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN Elizabeth MacDonough actively organized against Democratic efforts to reform the filibuster throughout 2013,...
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