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"Now is the time to lift the cloud of nuclear conflict for good," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said ahead of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. ...[Read more]
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Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), are set to introduce a bill on Wednesday that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The bill also attempts to remedy the harms done to those negatively impacted — disp ...[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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President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday that he is raising the minimum wage for employees contracted to work for the federal government to $15 per hour starting next spring.
The increase will represent a 37 percent increase in pay overall from th ...[Read more]
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) organized over 80 House Democrats to sign a letter calling on President Joe Biden to expand Medicare in his administration’s upcoming American Families Plan.
The lawmakers are asking Biden to lower the eligibility age ...[Read more]
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Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday — at 4:20 pm Eastern Time — released a plan to legalize marijuana.
The proposal is among the most ambitious from one of the Democratic presidential candidates. It would move to legalize marijuana within 100 days through ...[Read more]
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After years of lobbying political candidates and lawmakers in Washington to support Medicare for All and helping to bring the issue to the forefront of the healthcare debate in the 2020 election, advocate Ady Barkan announced Tuesday he is bringing the fi ...[Read more]
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Since June 1, 2020, a mental health clinician and a paramedic have traveled around the city in a white van handling low-level incidents, like trespassing and mental health episodes, that would have otherwise fallen to patrol officers with badges and guns. ...[Read more]
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One hundred seconds to midnight. That's how close humanity is to the apocalypse, and it's as close as the world has ever been, according to Wednesday's annual announcement from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group that has been running its "Doom ...[Read more]
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) takes effect Friday, January 22, 2021. After decades of campaigns of every kind to “ban the bomb,” to prevent the nuclear arms race, to freeze the arms race, humankind finally has a global treaty ...[Read more]
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Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000BC, a devastating event which wiped out woolly mammoths and sparked the rise of civilisations. ...[Read more]
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