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Georgia officially launches investigation into Trump’s demand for election official to ‘find’ votes for him
Georgia is among the battleground states where Donald Trump and his allies vigorously fought the Electoral College victory of Now-President Joe Biden. But despite tremendous pressure from Trump and his supporters, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffenspe ...[Read more]
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‘She-Wees’ and Plastic Bags: Amazon’s Pee Scandal Is Much Worse for Women
Last week, as part of a public relations attempt to combat negative media coverage amid a high-stakes union election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the company's official "Amazon News" Twitter account defended its working conditions. "You don’t real ...[Read more]
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Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General Turned Fierce Critic of U.S. Militarism, Dies at Age 93
Former U.S. attorney general and longtime human rights lawyer Ramsey Clark has died at the age of 93, and we look back on his life. Clark was credited as being a key architect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. He served as ...[Read more]
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Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts in murder of George Floyd
On Tuesday, after 11 hours of deliberation, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin found him guilty on all charges in the murder of George Floyd, a man whose death sparked a massive wave of protests in the summer of 2020. The verdict had been highly anti ...[Read more]
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Video Shows Police Laughing at Footage of Arrest of Woman With Dementia
The woman, who walked out of a Walmart in Loveland, Colo., without paying for $13.88 worth of items, said in a lawsuit that the police had broken a bone in her arm and dislocated her shoulder. ...[Read more]
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Among World Superpowers, US Poses Biggest Threat to Democracy: Global Poll
Almost half of respondents from 53 countries are worried that Washington threatens their democracy, and nearly two-thirds think economic inequality poses the biggest risk to popular rule. Results of the Democracy Perception Index survey (pdf), conducted b ...[Read more]
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Meet the Consulting Firm That’s Staffing the Biden Administration
From its headquarters just blocks from the White House, a small, high-powered team of former ambassadors, lawyers, and Obama appointees has spent the past few years solving problems for the world’s biggest companies. Less than six months into the Biden ...[Read more]
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How Patrick Buchanan’s 1992 campaign became the blueprint for Trumpism: conservative
When Donald Trump defeated all of the other Republican candidates in the 2016 GOP presidential primary and went on to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general election — even though he lost the popular vote — one of the people who was ...[Read more]
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Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine: rare blood clot syndrome has high mortality rate
Researchers found that clots occurring after first dose of Oxford jab affected otherwise young and healthy people ...[Read more]
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Estimated Cost of Post-9/11 US Wars Hits $8 Trillion With Nearly a Million People Dead
"What about the people left behind in Afghanistan, in Iraq—after a drone strike in Somalia—what about them? Do they get any care? Do they get any compensation? Absolutely not. So what would be the cost of war if that was actually the priority for the ...[Read more]
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220+ Medical Journals Unite to Demand Urgent Action on Climate Emergency
Asserting that humanity "cannot wait for the pandemic to pass" before acting to rapidly reduce carbon emissions fueling the climate emergency, more than 220 health journals around the world on Sunday published an unprecedented joint editorial calling for ...[Read more]
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