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Each of the 10 Republican senators who threw their support behind a widely criticized $600 billion coronavirus relief proposal on Sunday recently approved a whopping $740 billion military budget, a vote progressive lawmakers are highlighting as further ev ...[Read more]
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For Republican lawmakers, former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial appeared to be a relatively easy acquittal but the latest vote in favor of subpoenaing witnesses reportedly has his base in an uproar. On Saturday, Feb. 13, when the impeachment t ...[Read more]
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The combined policing budgets of these cities is 3.6 times greater than their public health department budgets. ...[Read more]
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As I grew up, my parents — proud South Asians — took me for an “IQ” test. They hoped I could join the “gifted program” at school. This was after I’d rebelled at several private schools. Lucky them — unlucky me. I scored well enough to get ...[Read more]
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Health care workers have more student loan debt than workers in any other industry, holding approximately $9,700 more in debt per person than those who work in higher education, who are the second-highest debt holders on the list. Private health care work ...[Read more]
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Enough has been said, here and elsewhere, about the contents of the bestselling book Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (KATM) and the meticulous archival and field research on which it is based. It is a brilliant–a word I use sp ...[Read more]
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Money laundering has long been a major issue in the United States but over the last several years, the evolution of technology has made the laundering threat far worse.
Last fall, BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ...[Read more]
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If anyone held out hope that the Proud Boys—with 18 members awaiting trial for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection—might eventually wither and blow away in its aftermath, they should read through the Telegram messages Ethan Nordean and his ...[Read more]
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"Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. "We must join other major countries in guaranteeing healthcare for all and pass Medicare for All." ...[Read more]
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Pope Francis, seeming in good overall condition, appeared in public on Sunday for the first time since undergoing intestinal surgery a week ago and made a plea for free universal healthcare. ...[Read more]
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The U.S. Supreme Court may be on the brink of rolling back one of the most important free speech protections for journalists.
Donald Trump vowed to "open up those libel laws" as a candidate in 2016, and the court he stacked with three right-wing justices ...[Read more]
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