Malerba sworn in as 1st Native American in US Treasurer post
Mohegan Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba was sworn in Monday as the Treasurer of the United States, the first Native American to hold...
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Tax Revenue in Most States Surpasses Pre-Pandemic Growth Trend
In nearly two-thirds of states—the most since the pandemic’s start—tax revenue had outperformed its pre-COVID...
read more‘A dangerous normalization of lunacy’: Michael Flynn and a Proud Boys leader are now poll watchers in Florida
On Thursday, September 8, the Sarasota County Republican Party chose some new poll watchers — and the far-right choices include...
read morePeaceful Resistance Turns Military Might Into Weakness
Violence plays into Israel’s hands. Civil disobedience and general strikes by Palestinian laborers, boycotts, and mass peaceful...
read moreHouse Oversight panel asks Archives to assess whether White House records remain in Trump’s possession
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) urged the Archives “seek a personal certification from Donald Trump that he has surrendered all...
read more100 Years After Compact, Colorado River Nearing Crisis Point
Until recently, water managers and politicians whose constituents rely on the river have avoided the most difficult questions about...
read more“Two Years Is Too Long”: Family of Carl Dorsey, Black Man Killed by NJ Police, Sues as Probe Drags On
The family of the unarmed Black man killed that night is now suing the police and the city of Newark, frustrated that the...
read moreThe fight against mass shootings just got a win … from credit card companies
The effort to reduce mass shootings got a win over the weekend, as American Express, Mastercard, and Visa all said they would adopt a...
read moreWarren, Pressley Ask Navient About ‘Attempting to Scam’ Student Loan Borrowers
Emails from the servicing company entice borrowers to refinance into private loans that wouldn’t be eligible for the announced debt...
read moreMexico calls on U.S. for help in stopping delivery of guns to cartels
“Mexico in its territory is seizing five times more weapons that the United States is seizing weapons headed to Mexico on its side,”...
read moreAlert: Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection
The company has spent billions on cases about one of its most popular products. As its executives try a brazen new legal strategy to...
read moreAlert: Amid a U.S. teacher shortage, Florida turns to military veterans
So many Florida teachers have abandoned their profession in recent years that the state is inviting military veterans with no prior...
read moreMaps show where extreme heat shattered 7,000 records this summer
Heat waves scorched the country, smashing thousands of temperature records. We show you where.
read more‘Disgusting’: Starbucks to Help Its Workers With Benefits—Unless They’re in a Union
After withholding raises from unionized employees earlier this year, “Starbucks is doubling down on the...
read moreMany Prominent Republicans Endorse Democrats Over ‘Extremist’ GOP Candidates
Former GOP officials and other prominent Republican figures in Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona are warning that their...
read moreThe Bahamas Could Send A Message to The World by Banning Oil Drilling
Many small developing countries find themselves on the front lines of climate change, much like a canary in a coal mine. But perhaps...
read more10,000+ Sign Letter Urging Biden to Reverse ‘Terrorism’ Designation for Cuba
An open letter organized by CodePink calls on U.S. President Joe Biden to abandon the Trump administration’s hostile posture...
read moreAlert: Montana Adopts Rule Barring Trans People From Changing Sex On Birth Certificate
The Republican governor’s administration had imposed a similar emergency rule back in May that is currently being challenged in...
read moreThe Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop
And imagine that you lose control of 217 gigabytes of your personal data: videos in which you have sex; videos in which you smoke...
read moreWho is Giorgia Meloni? Far-right leader may be Italy’s first female prime minister.
The favorite to be Italy’s next prime minister has rocketed almost from out of nowhere. Her party, until recently, was on the...
read moreFBI tracked Aretha Franklin’s civil rights activism, declassified file shows
The 270-page unsealed file details several death threats and her friendships with Martin Luther King Jr and Angela Davis...
read moreAlert: U.S. MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE GROWS TO HISTORIC PROPORTIONS — ALONG WITH RISKS
Ukraine is on track to become the largest recipient of U.S military assistance in the last century. But questions surround the...
read moreExperts Warn Supreme Court Supporting ‘Dangerous’ GOP Legal Theory Could Destroy US Democracy
Independent state legislative theory—a formerly fringe right-wing notion that state lawmakers alone can regulate federal...
read more‘Say NO To US Wars!’: Back To The Streets, October 15-23
Stop Washington’s War Moves Toward Russia And China.Stop endless wars: Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, everywhere. Join us in...
read moreAlert: Private Equity and Hedge Fund Industries Pour Over $347 Million Into Midterms
Federal committees reported receiving nearly $347.7 million during the 2022 midterm election cycle from private equity and hedge fund...
read moreThe Historic Collapse of Journalism
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.
read more160+ Groups Denounce Mining Industry Giveaways in ‘Dirty’ Manchin Side Deal
“Under no circumstances,” the groups argue in a letter, “should Congress cut any deals made on the backs of some of...
read moreTrump Proves That Presidents Have Too Much Power
The expansion of executive privilege under Bush and Obama gave their successor license he recklessly exploited.
read moreMuch on 9/11 still unknown – like the full story of United Flight 23
Throughout the past year, in response to an executive order from President Biden, the FBI has declassified and made public thousands...
read more‘It’s pretty disturbing’: Videos show Trump aides taking suspicious boxes to other golf properties
Online videos have prompted new calls to search Donald Trump’s other properties for classified materials, but investigators may...
read moreAlert: A far-right movement to ‘rewrite the Constitution’ has ‘immense potential for lasting harm’: historian
“Radical conservative activists are working with Republican state legislators to trigger an extraordinary special convention to...
read moreTrump Backers Accused of Weaponizing Records Requests to ‘Destabilize’ Midterms
Election officials across the U.S. are facing what many believe appears to be a coordinated effort to overwhelm their offices just as...
read moreNew ‘Objective’ CNN Appears to Be Making Itself Objectively Rightwing
The cable network’s CEO dramatic hiring and firing of on-air talent seems designed to woo the Fox News crowd
read moreAmericans give health care system failing mark: AP-NORC poll
The poll reveals that public satisfaction with the U.S. health care system is remarkably low, with fewer than half of Americans...
read moreHungry soldiers: 1 in 6 military families report being food insecure
As part of a nationwide effort to alleviate hunger among active military and veterans, around 800 military families near Fort Bragg...
read moreTrump Asks Judge to Keep Blocking F.B.I. From Working With Seized Classified Files
It was the latest salvo in a court fight over a special master, which has stalled an investigation into the former president’s...
read moreThe Weapons Industry as a Taxpayer Scam
Military contractors and arms manufacturers cash in as Congress adds billions to the Pentagon budget each year.
read moreNorth Korea Draws Closer to China and Russia
Pyongyang has abandoned any rapprochement with Washington.
read moreThe DNC Moves to Block Debate on Dark Money, but We Won’t Quit
The stakes are too high for Democrats—and democracy—to let our party’s primaries turn into auctions won by the highest bidder....
read moreProgressive Democrats Won’t Say If They’ll Block Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Giveaway
Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin struck a deal to fast-track approval of new gas and oil pipelines as...
read moreMichigan Republican leaders urge their poll watchers to violate election rules in training session
This one comes to us from CNN, which reports on a Zoom-based training session held by Republican leaders in Wayne County,...
read moreAntiabortion Activists Want the Supreme Court to Ban Abortion on a Federal Level
Antiabortion activists in Rhode Island just filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to consider overturning their state judges’...
read moreRally Supporting Assange Before Blinken’s Arrival in Mexico
On Sunday, Julian Assange’s father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton, were present at a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in...
read moreOz said uninsured Americans don’t have ‘right to health,’ a hell of a thing for a doctor to say
Television doctor and would-be senator Mehmet Oz told an audience in 2013 that people don’t have a “right to health,” in a newly...
read moreSouth Carolina Judge Bars State Executions Method Similar to ‘Being Burned Alive’ and ‘Torture’
Death in the electric chair is like “being burned alive.” The firing squad is like “torture.”Those were the conclusions of a truly...
read more50 Million People Are Trapped in Modern Slavery Worldwide: Report
Nearly one out of every 150 individuals on Earth was enslaved last year, including roughly 28 million in forced labor and 22 million...
read moreA far-right company took over four Texas school boards, and hate is at the top of their agenda
NBC News has a long read about the successful efforts of a far-far-right “Christian” cellphone provider (and yes that is...
read moreThe US Must Ends Its Complicity in Illicit Financial Flows Out of Africa
Currently, there are no consequences for the U.S.-based companies involved in the illicit looting of African nations’ wealth....
read moreChain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria
By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned...
read more15,000 Minnesota Nurses Launch Historic Strike to Put ‘Patients Before Profits’
“We feel like this is the only thing we can do,” said one nurse. “Hospitals tell us it’s our fault, but...
read moreThe Big Lie has gotten Trump’s Michigan attorney general pick into Big Doo-doo
The Trump-backed Republican attorney general candidate in Michigan now has a special prosecutor on his ass. D.J. Hilson, the...
read moreAnti-vax doc and Trump insurrectionist released from prison gifted ceremonial American flag by top Republican
v Dr. Simone Gold, who was sentenced to 60 days in prison for taking part in Trump’s insurrection at the US Capitol on January...
read moreHow many times must Gaza be rebuilt, to be bombed again?
Israel is infamous for bombing innocents in the Gaza Strip. During Israel’s latest three-day military offensive against the besieged...
read moreCourt: 292-year sentence in string of nonviolent burglaries is not excessive
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said it could not get involved in the case.
read moreCanceling All Student Debt Would Cost About as Much as The Pentagon’s F-35 Boondoggle
When it comes to military spending in the United States, money is no object—even for programs like the F-35, which has been...
read moreQueen Elizabeth II Wasn’t Innocent of the British Empire’s Colonial Sins
The late queen incarnated and ably helped sell her nation and its system while never criticizing or apologizing for its past....
read moreSwedish election: far right makes gains but overall result on knife-edge
The far-right Sweden Democrats party was the big winner in the country’s election on Sunday, increasing its share of the vote by two...
read moreBolsonaro Follows Trump’s Script
If Bolsonaro loses the election, there is widespread concern that he will organize a revolt and refuse to accept the results. This...
read more‘This is not normal’: House Progressive Caucus leader shares graphic death threats from MAGA extremists
“I think it’s important that people understand the connections between the Big Lie, January 6th, and what happened at my...
read moreFlorida ranked No. 1 for “education freedom” — by right-wing group that wants to privatize it all
Heritage Foundation report praises Florida, Arizona for big steps toward deregulating and privatizing schools
read moreHow the royal family makes its $88 billion fortune
The death of Queen Elizabeth II means the wealth of the royal family, which features $88 billion in assets, must be reorganized....
read more9/11: The Failures of The War On Terror
It is simply not possible through the use of armed force to eliminate armed groups who engage in terrorism.
read moreUkraine Loses Soldiers – Europe Its Economies – All For No Gain
More than 3,000 Ukrainians have died by now in the Kherson offensive without having made any significant progress. Hundreds of tanks...
read moreBiden’s MAGA Obsession Won’t Help Democrats
Because Joe Biden And Democrats Act On Behalf Of The Oligarchy Instead Of The People, They Now Risk A Mid-Term Election Loss.His...
read moreRepublicans look to restrict ballot measures following a string of progressive wins
The state efforts are a direct threat to abortion-rights advocates and other liberal groups’ efforts to bypass governors and...
read moreRalph Nader: To Win in November, Democrats Must Listen to Citizen Groups
Astonishingly, citizen leaders for years have been marginalized to their and the Democratic politicians’ disadvantage. The...
read more‘End the War With Nature,’ Says UN Chief From Flood-Ravaged Pakistan
Noting that “loss and damage from the climate crisis… is happening now, all around us,” António Guterres, calls on...
read moreLegal expert explains how special master ruling is reigniting fears that ‘Trump judges’ will cause more problems
In an op-ed published by Politico, Aziz Huq, a law professor at the University of Chicago, expressed concern about the ruling and...
read moreLast Operating Reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Shut Down
The IAEA’s director general, Rafael Grossi, said Sunday that “I remain gravely concerned about the situation at the...
read moreNorth Korea vows immediate nuclear response if Kim Jung-Un killed
Kim Jong Un said the aim of the new law is to “draw an irretrievable line so that there can be no bargaining over our nuclear...
read moreSanders Says He’ll Vote Against Budget Bill If Manchin Pipeline Deal Is Included
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced on Thursday that he will vote against an upcoming bill to fund the government if Democrats...
read moreHow a Christian fundamentalist lawsuit threatens ‘everything from cancer screening to vaccines’: columnist
Mitchell has filed a lawsuit challenging the ACA’s requirement that a private company’s health care plan cover preventative services,...
read moreBannon is not finished: his ‘precinct strategy’ could alter US elections for years
But Bannon’s most important role at present may be his championing of what is known as the “precinct strategy”, which seeks to take...
read moreSurvival of the Richest, Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind.
read moreInnocence is not Enough to Avoid Execution
Mr. Roysden’s argument is that guilt or innocence is irrelevant to the case. He argues that the state of Arizona has created a...
read moreWhy Biden Failed to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage
My Democratic friends tell me that Biden wants to keep his promise and that it’s not his fault that nothing has been done. I’m not...
read moreThe temperature threshold the human body can’t survive
There’s a temperature threshold beyond which the human body simply can’t survive — one that some parts of the world are...
read moreFed Economist Warns of “Severe Recession” From Powell’s Rate Hikes
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell insists he won’t cause a deep recession but that “pain” is necessary to fight inflation....
read moreNYT Scolds China For Not ‘Learning To Live’—Or Die—With Covid
Four and a half million people.That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same...
read moreJackson, Mississippi Must Reject Water Privatization
“Privatization is on the table,” says Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, amid a water crisis in the state capital. That would...
read moreAfraid of Jail? Buy an Upgrade
How California’s pay-to-stay jails create a two-tiered justice system.
read moreJayapal Ties Trumpian Rhetoric to Violent Threats Against US Lawmakers and Democracy
“We’ve got to get people in government who actually believe in government,” said the Washington Democrat,...
read moreMichigan Supreme Court Democrats block GOP’s attempt to strike abortion measure from ballot
Like many state courts, judges on the Michigan State Supreme Court are elected. In 2018 and 2020 Democrats were able to win more...
read moreThe Alternative to Cash Bail Is a Simple Reminder
A community organization created a web tool that simply reminds people of their court dates. The impact is profound....
read moreMexico invites relatives of Assange, Guevara to Independence Day
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday he had invited relatives of Julian Assange and Che Guevara to attend...
read more‘Huge Win’ for Civil Liberties as Judge Blocks Arizona Law Limiting Filming of Police
“We have a First Amendment right to film the police,” said the ACLU, “and we will use it.”
read more‘Fair and humane treatment’: DHS axes Donald Trump’s ‘public charge’ immigration rule: report
According to Politico, the policy being reversed lodged an attack on benefits for immigrants that were more likely to depend on...
read moreSenator Warren and Representative Sherman Reintroduce the Nationwide Right to Unionize Act, Call for Passage of the PRO Act
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Nationwide Right to...
read moreBurning Forests for Energy Isn’t ‘Renewable’ – Now the EU Must Admit It
Next week the future of many of the world’s forests will be decided when members of the European parliament vote on a revised EU...
read moreOil companies say they’re going green, but their investments tell another story
Researchers found that BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and TotalEnergies spent an estimated $750 million last year to promote a...
read moreDoug Mastriano caught on video praying for MAGA to ‘seize the power’ during the days leading up to Jan. 6
A clip of a prayer led by Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is now circulating online.
read more“No Tech for Apartheid”: Google Workers Push for Cancellation of Secretive $1.2B Project with Israel
A national day of action is planned next Thursday as protests grow against Google’s secretive $1.2 billion program known as...
read moreTwo Trump Officials Subpoenaed for Fundraising to Undermine Elections
Stephen Miller and Brian Jack were summoned as authorities investigate funds related to the Save America Pac, currently sitting at...
read moreRussia Continues to Receive Global Support
While Ukraine has received enormous aid from around the world since the Russian invasion began in February, open support for Russia...
read moreReport: Ginni Thomas Is Closely Connected to More Than Half of the Groups That Lobbied Her Husband to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Thirty-eight out of 74 — or 51% — of amicus briefs produced in support of a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade were...
read more72 House Democrats Tell Pelosi to Keep Manchin’s Dirty Deal Out of Must-Pass Legislation
“Today’s letter from House members further confirms what we’ve been seeing on the streets and in town hall meetings...
read moreAnalysis Shows ‘Quiet Fleecing’ of US Workers—Not ‘Quiet Quitting’—Is the Real Problem
“Workers are more productive than ever, but their pay hasn’t kept pace while top 1% wages have skyrocketed,” says...
read moreQueen Elizabeth’s Death Stirs Debate About Colonialism, Slavery and British Racism
“We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth because to us her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in this country and...
read moreSummoning inspiration from solitary, Missouri resident wins PEN America prison writing award
The award is a testament to Tretbar’s ability to reconcile his battle with opioid addiction through the “self-psychotherapy” of...
read moreCBS News poll: Big majority favor maximum age limits for elected officials
So what should that age be? When offered a list of ages, Age 70 is the top answer chosen. This is older than the current average age...
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