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Making pro-Israel lobby contributions off-limits to scrutiny only serves the agenda of apologists for Israeli apartheid.

Pressure is mounting against the planned police training center after a week of unprecedented police repression.

House Republicans are expected to release legislation that would impose more harsh work requirements on specific recipients of federal food aid.

Daniel Ellsberg the legendary whistleblower has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.

Banks lobbied to weaken regulations that could have prevented their collapse

President Biden is planning to sign an executive order to address gun violence during a visit on Tuesday to Monterey Park, California, where a gunman shot 20 people, killing 11, during a Lunar New Year celebration in January.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to recuse himself from his agency’s investigation into the Silicon Valley Bank failure because his actions directly contributed to the collapse.

The Biden administration plans to limit PFAS chemicals (forever chemicals) in drinking water for the first time, a victory for environmental advocates.

China accused Australia, the UK, and the US of threatening peace in the Pacific region after leaders of the AUKUS military partnership unveiled further information about their plan to expand the reach of Washington’s nuclear-powered submarine technology.

Hundreds of far right protesters, including neo-Nazis and members of other white nationalist groups, stormed a drag queen story hour at a park in Wadsworth, Ohio, on Saturday

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Rep. Jamaal Bowman: “When we are elected to Congress, we take an oath to protect the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. Marjorie Taylor Greene is an enemy of the Constitution and of our country and she should be expelled from Congress.”

Abled-Bodied Leftists Cannot Abandon Disabled Solidarity to “Move On” From COVID

“The US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem.” - @transscribe 

The Biden administration is reportedly blocking the release of a UN cease-fire statement as Israel continues its devastating assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians and injuring hundreds more.

On October 20, at least half a million workers in South Korea — from across the construction, transportation, service, and other sectors — will walk off their jobs in a one-day general strike.

Democracy isn’t dying in the dark. It’s dying in broad daylight.

An appeals court ruled that an NSA program famously exposed by Edward Snowden, designed to collect data on millions of American citizens without warrants, violates a law specially designed to prevent abuse of the government’s spying capabilities.

Bernie Sanders said that Democrats must make it a priority to tackle Citizens United, which allows billionaires and corporations to pour unlimited amounts of money into politics and essentially buy elections.

If minimum wage had increased at the same rate as the average Wall Street bonus since 1985, it would be $33 today, instead of $7.25

The pandemic’s deaths have been un-dealt with most profoundly by prioritizing saving the economy rather than lives.

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