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Many condemned Trump, saying he is using Jews as a political football to score points. Source: Trump appears to attack ‘The Squad’ on...
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The practice shifts political power to the predominantly white, rural, conservative areas where many of the state’s prisons are...
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it is worth examining the signs currently overlooked by most mainstream media outlets in their typical assessments. Specifically, the...
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New documents appear to undermine the Trump administration’s contention that House lawmakers’ request for the...
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Consider it a part of your civic duty: driving up the costs of data breaches for corporations so they have an incentive to invest...
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Bernie Sanders is a progressive who likes to get things done and his record of legislative accomplishments in the House of...
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The current crisis has roots in a colonial debt regime imposed on the island by predatory banks and the U.S. Source: Puerto Rico...
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Francisco Galicia and his mother are speaking out on the inhumane conditions they say he endured while detained Source: A US-born...
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“Wanna know how broken and captured Washington is by the Pentagon and the corruption of our nation’s...
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“This web ad from Joe Biden attempts to pit working people and generations against one another to perpetuate a broken...
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Days after he was supposed to be in a children’s shelter, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez died of the flu near the toilet in his...
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Exclusive: Danielle Stella, reported to support baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, held twice this year over alleged shoplifting...
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I could only imagine that Tulsi had some logic behind her vote against the “anti-BDS” vote, which appeared to advocate...
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Economists Ori Katz and Michael Sarel believe the implementation of basic income is a task both necessary and desirable in the near...
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Comparing the treatment of Jeffrey Epstein to Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner’s murder, reveals the grotesque...
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The city’s newspaper The Baltimore Sun unleashed on Trump for the racist attacks implying the residents were vermin or trash. They...
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Between 2012 and 2016, the cost of insulin nearly doubled. Source: High Cost of Insulin Sends Americans to Canada Where It’s 90...
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The bill aims to “prohibit the imposition of the death penalty for any violation of Federal law, and for other purposes”...
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Racists like Trump are pretending to care about anti-Semitism. Don’t believe them. Source: Anti-Semitism and Zionism Have...
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Activists and scientists say the wall would be an ecological catastrophe. Source: Environmental Groups Vow to Fight on After Supreme...
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Instead of using the Mueller report to build a general case against Trump, and satisfy their base’s demand to at least try to...
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“We have to make clear: No one is above the law ― not even the president of the United States,” the 2020 hopeful said at the NAACP...
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The U.S. has had a sanctions regime in place against Iran for decades, almost since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The U.S., France,...
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Bill Clinton had to testify before a grand jury, under oath, on camera, for hours, and tell every nasty detail about his sex life....
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Beltway pundits treated his testimony as disappointing entertainment rather than a damning portrait of a rogue president. Source: The...
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The federal government is required to pursue “prompt and continuous efforts toward family reunification” of unaccompanied...
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“Not enough to condemn the corruption and self-dealing,” says Democratic Congresswoman. “We must support policies...
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In this excerpt of “Privatized Planet: Free Trade as a Weapon Against Democracy, Healthcare and the Environment,” author T.J. Coles...
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Charles Koch, head of Koch Industries, has tried to rebrand himself as a philanthropist who works with both parties to restrain the...
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“Social Security’s modest benefits should be expanded. When President Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law,...
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Former UN special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas slams UN High Commissioner Bachelet’s report on Venezuela as a politicized collection of...
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The last federal execution was in 2003. Source: Trump’s DOJ Is Resuming the Death Penalty. Bernie Sanders Vows to Abolish...
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Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has just arrived here from Caracas, Venezuela, where he was attending the international summit...
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A constitutional battle is brewing in the states over whether lawmakers may draw district lines based on citizenship alone. Source:...
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Three students were suspended from their fraternity house, Kappa Alpha, after we shared an Instagram photo one of the men posted that...
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The ruling in California comes just hours after a Trump-appointed judge in Washington, D.C., declined to block the rule. Source:...
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With Congress Limiting What Can Be Dumped at Nuke Sites, the Energy Department May Just Redefine What It’s Dumping The U.S....
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Turning Point USA fired an aide it deemed responsible for including a symbol historically tied to empire and dominance. Source: Trump...
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nalysis of satellite imagery has cast further doubt on promises that arrangements are being made by Myanmar for the safe and humane...
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The House Oversight Committee had asked the Trump administration about reports that some top White House officials used personal...
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The lawsuit alleges that a “secret investigative program” exposed by NBC News and KNSD targeted the three plaintiffs for...
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Four automakers from three continents have struck a deal with the state of California to increase gas mileage standards for their...
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Metering is the U.S. government’s practice of limiting the number of people who can seek asylum at the border each day—even...
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The proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on July 12th, would enable federal workers to drop union membership—and...
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Congressional Democrats are using the testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller before two House committees Wednesday to...
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A bipartisan effort to restrict US weapons sales to Saudi Arabia has been vetoed by the White House. President Donald Trump said...
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Signs, fliers and other notices with racist language are increasingly being found at colleges and universities in the United States,...
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“In less than 16 days, Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is expected to resign after mass protests. I can’t even recall...
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Hundreds of thousands of ‘returning citizens’ who regained voting rights had them taken away by a financial barrier law Source: The...
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With the hashtag #ScientistsforMaunaKea, scientists are sharing their opposition to the construction of the $1.4 billion telescope on...
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Researchers At The University Of Colorado Studied Pregnant Women Who Are Among The 17 Million Americans Living Within A Mile From An...
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“If Pressley doesn’t get Palestine on this most basic and limited point she’s made her position clear. This is an...
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At the highest levels of our government, the rule of law has been subverted with impunity. But loosie cigarettes, that scourge can...
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Prosecutors in St. Louis said in an explosive set of charges that an innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995...
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. Get rid of Medicare Advantage corporate medicine. And get rid of the value based programs — with mind numbing acronyms like...
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The Times’ white voter obsession remains baffling and absurd as a form of political journalism. The paper has never explained why it...
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In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that they were scammed by Trump and three of his children when they spent money on multilevel...
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Longtime Donald Trump friend and accused child rapist Jeffrey Epstein was found in his New York City jail cell in the fetal position...
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Mayer uncovers a series of misstatements, implausibilities, and (no surprise) intimations of a political hit job — names like...
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Wage theft comes in many forms. Some employees are misclassified as independent contractors. Others are told to clock out and then...
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During Hearings, Stand Up America Drove Over 7,500 Constituent Calls to Congress Demanding Lawmakers Support Impeachment Source:...
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The NAACP has added its collective voice to the calls for Donald Trump to be impeached. In a vote taken at the group’s annual...
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The former special counsel answered questions Wednesday from the panel about his investigation into possible obstruction of justice...
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Rosselló has faced nearly two weeks of demonstrations — each one larger than the last — demanding he step down. Source: Ricardo...
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Disappointed by Guaído’s fading star, Western reporters have labored to mint new pro-Washington heroes worthy of their regime change...
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The apparent proposal would involve swapping a British tanker seized in the Persian Gulf for an Iranian tanker seized near Gibraltar....
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The document paints a devastating portrait of the country’s economic situation—but overlooks the US role in the suffering. Source:...
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Between January 2016 and May 30, 2019, 482 leaders were murdered and between April 2018 and April 2019, 982 leaders were threatened...
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Joe Biden keeps lying about Medicare for All and won’t stop anytime soon — he has to, to sell his own Bidencare plan. But...
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“Despite calls for a fifth convention two decades ago, military conflict continues to destroy megafauna, push species to...
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Gov. Janet Mills announced that she would be relaxing restrictions on General Assistance eligibility for asylum-seekers, allowing...
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Now, in a video project compiled by The New York Times, New York kids are reading testimonies from detained kids. The testimonies...
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Trump is happy because the deal protects the war machine and “our veterans” and contains no poison pills that would nauseate rich...
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Where are the calls to stop the massive illegal transfer of U.S. weapons fueling the very violence that drives innocent people to...
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The marked drift toward diplomacy last week represents an important, potentially decisive setback for Bolton and the White...
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Conservative statehouses have passed bills blocking cities from enacting inclusionary zoning ordinances, most recently in Florida....
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On Monday Donald Trump gave an extremely weird and belligerent-even-for-him performance in a White House photo op with Pakistani...
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Just days after Israeli forces demolished dozens of Palestinian homes in what international observers said amounted to a war crime,...
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At a campaign rally Saturday in Burlington, Vermont, Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined his anti-war foreign policy, saying: “I make...
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Macron says 14 states back mechanism to redistribute people saved in Mediterranean Source: EU countries agree plan to handle migrants...
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It comes as a growing number of lawmakers have called for stricter regulation or even breaking up of the big tech companies, which...
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A state bank will free the financial resources needed to fund vital investments in the planet’s future. Source: Public banking can...
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The non-binding Senate resolution introduced this week in an effort to label “antifa” as “a domestic terrorist organization” is the...
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A proposal by Julián Castro would make unauthorized border crossing a civil offense, not a crime. Source: Julián Castro Proposes That...
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How could Britain crumble? All it would take is for Scotland and Northern Ireland to jump ship if the effort to break from the...
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There’s already more than enough evidence to warrant a probe. Source: A special counsel is needed to investigate William Barr for...
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Judges on state supreme courts don’t reflect the diversity of their communities. Source: Opinion | The Nation’s Top State Courts Face...
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He has filed the suit as a private citizen. The state of New York passed a law this spring, signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this...
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Democratic freshman Congresswoman Debra Haaland of New Mexico reacts to the racist attacks from the president on four of her...
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Settlement reportedly reveals hospital’s fears of adverse publicity over family’s allegations of botched surgery Source: Neil...
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A long-sought set of reforms to the way New Mexico jailers and prison officials use solitary confinement kicked in July 1, barring...
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Fox News contributor Gerald Rivera admitted that he now finds it near impossible to defend the president.In an interview with the New...
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“More often than not these commentators are injecting their opinion without any policy discussions,” said Nina Turner,...
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A 12-year-old boy suffering from cancer is among the newest plaintiffs taking on Monsanto and its German owner Bayer AG in growing...
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Bureau has reorganized domestic terrorism categorization in favor of ‘racially motivated violent extremism’ category Source: FBI...
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Eden Reforestation Projects (Eden) — a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide poverty relief by employing local...
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Private equity firms have bought at least 80 retailers in the past decade, including Brookstone, Gymboree and David’s Bridal....
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Beyond the Books also compiled a list of lawmakers dating back to the early 2000’s who made millions off of charter schools while...
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The California city on Tuesday voted to ban natural gas hook-ups in new buildings, in a historic move Source: Berkeley became first...
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