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Trump fans file suit to block Biden’s executive orders and rerun election
Fans of former WH resident Don Trump have a bone to pick with President Joe Biden. Supporters of former President Donald Trump this week filed an amended motion for a restraining order against President Joe Biden that left one veteran legal... ...[Read more]
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“I Pretty Much Immediately Discovered How Bad American Health Care Was”
Journalist Libby Watson started a newsletter to document the horrors of the US's profit-driven health system. She spoke to us about the insurance industry’s windfall COVID-19 profits, Joe Biden’s phantom public option proposal, and how growing up with ...[Read more]
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Where Have All the Vaccines Gone? CDC Says Only Half of Shots Feds Sent to States Were Used
January has become the deadliest month of the pandemic in the United States, with at least 80,000 deaths from COVID-19 so far, and public health experts worry new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus could make things worse. President Joe Biden ha ...[Read more]
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GOP Senators Appear Ready to Let Trump Get Away With Inciting Capitol Attack
The ongoing civil war within the GOP had a deeply clarifying moment yesterday. If Tuesday’s events are the writing on the Republican wall, Donald Trump need not fear conviction in the Senate or loss of influence within the party. Even now — after losi ...[Read more]
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Biden Is Reversing Trump Anti-Immigrant Acts. Will He Repair Harm from Deportations Under Obama?
President Joe Biden has placed immigration at the center of his ambitious agenda, signing several executive orders reversing Trump anti-immigrant policies and promising a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. ...[Read more]
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How a US-Backed Coup in Serbia Inspired the DC Insurrection
A MintPress News investigation reveals that the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol drew inspiration from the 2000 overthrow of Serbian president Slobodan Milošević and a conspiratorially-minded Serbian scientist who issued calls for violence.   ...[Read more]
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Exclusive: Proud Boys leader was ‘prolific’ informer for law enforcement
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript ...[Read more]
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The GameStop Bubble Is a Lesson in the Absurdity and Uselessness of the Stock Market
The online pranksters behind the great GameStop bubble of 2021 are probably going to lose a lot of money. But they’ve done the world a service by reminding us of the utter uselessness of the stock market, an institution that serves no purpose besides ma ...[Read more]
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China condemns one of the nation’s top bankers to death after he was found guilty of accepting $277 million in bribes
China sentenced a former finance chairman to death on charges of bribery and bigamy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Lai Xiaomin, who has been called China's most corrupt financial official, was the focus of an investigation in 2018 into his time as the ch ...[Read more]
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History suggests we may forget the pandemic sooner than we think | Jonathan Freedland
Even the ‘Spanish’ flu quickly faded from collective memory. We must ensure the same doesn’t happen with Covid, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland ...[Read more]
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New Report From Rep. Katie Porter Reveals How Big Pharma Pursues ‘Killer Profits’ at the Expense of Americans’ Health
"It's time we reevaluate the standards for approving these mergers. It's time we pass legislation to lower drug prices. And it's time we rethink the structure of leadership at big pharmaceutical companies." ...[Read more]
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