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How Joe Biden turned the tables on Republicans and used their tactics against them
President Joe Biden's plans are ambitious. I know this because every headline Thursday morning after Biden gave his first speech to a joint session of Congress said so. "Biden Just Gave the Most Ideologically Ambitious Speech of Any Democratic President i ...[Read more]
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‘This Is Huge’: Top Court Rules Germany’s Climate Law Inadequate to Protect Future Generations
In a ruling hailed as a landmark victory for the climate justice movement, Germany's top constitutional court said Thursday that the nation's 2019 climate law violates young people's "fundamental rights to a human future" by failing to set adequate emissi ...[Read more]
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For Billion-Dollar COVID Vaccines, Basic Government-Funded Science Laid the Groundwork
The vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, which are likely to be the first to win FDA approval, in particular rely heavily on two fundamental discoveries that emerged from federally funded research: the viral protein designed by Graham and his colleagues, ...[Read more]
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China considers travel exchange after US eases pandemic entry rules
China said it was willing to resume a travel exchange with the United States following an announcement by the US it was easing some coronavirus travel bans. The US has announced it will allow students and professionals in various categories and from vario ...[Read more]
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Commission Finds Anti-Black Police Violence Constitutes Crimes Against Humanity
On April 27, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent in the United States issued its long-awaited report on the U.S.’s police-perpetrated racist violence. The Commissioners concluded t ...[Read more]
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ACLU Urges Biden to Shut Down Detention Facilities ‘Used to Abuse and Traumatize Immigrants’
The ACLU is urging the Biden administration to shut down over three dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in light of decreasing numbers of people detained and human rights concerns. "The Biden administration was elected with a ma ...[Read more]
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Federal Agents Execute Raid Giuliani’s Home, Signaling Turning Point in Probe Into Ukraine Dealings
Federal authorities' probe into former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's dealings with Ukrainian officials during the Trump administration appeared to significantly ramp up Wednesday as investigators executed a search warrant at Giuliani's home and office. P ...[Read more]
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New body camera footage shows officers kneeling on a California man’s back for 5 minutes before he died
The family of a 26-year-old man, Mario Gonzalez, is demanding an independent investigation into the California man's death following the release Tuesday of body camera footage by the Alameda Police Department which shows three officers kneeling on his bac ...[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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Democrats, Sanders Demand Biden Release Secret Covid Vaccine Contracts Inked Under Trump
Dozens of congressional Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday urged top Biden officials to release unredacted copies of multi-billion-dollar coronavirus vaccine contracts that the Trump administration negotiated in secret with major pharmaceutical c ...[Read more]
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Some Right-Wing Troops Find Themselves Targeted by Their Own War Machine
To Hawkeye, the implications were apparent: Calling someone an insurgent or terrorist implied permission to marginalize him, strip him of his rights, detain him, hunt him, and kill him. He’d done this himself to people tagged with those labels overseas. ...[Read more]
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