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Bernie Sanders Says $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan Is ‘The Minimum’
Anticipating a clash with conservative Democrats over the price tag of the party's emerging reconciliation package, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday laid down a clear marker: the $3.5 trillion in spending outlined in a newly approved budget resolution is a ...[Read more]
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Minnesota Law Enforcement Shared Intelligence on Protest Organizers With Pipeline Company
Police responsible for public safety surrounding the construction of an oil pipeline in Minnesota have repeatedly denied having a close relationship with Enbridge, the company behind the controversial energy project. According to records obtained by The I ...[Read more]
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For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ...[Read more]
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Biden Boosted Food Stamps. Let’s Do the Same to All US Anti-Poverty Programs.
The Biden administration recently announced a record permanent increase in the value of food stamps aid going to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients around the country. The average amount received each month by each of the 42 milli ...[Read more]
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Trump sued by Capitol police officers over Jan. 6 attack in lawsuit alleges ‘bias-motivated acts of terrorism’: NYT
Donald Trump is being sued by a group of seven Capitol Police officers for his role in the January 6 insurrection in what is being called the "most expansive civil effort to date" to hold the former president and his associates and allies accountable. The ...[Read more]
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Children, US Soldiers Among Casualties in Explosions Outside Kabul Airport
Children, adult civilians, and U.S. military personnel were among those reportedly killed or wounded Thursday in a pair of explosions near Kabul's international airport, the site of a chaotic evacuation effort that the Biden administration is aiming to co ...[Read more]
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‘I don’t like being told what I have to do’: Libertarian explains vaccine refusal as he struggles to breathe
The video shows Ozark residents expressing anti-vaxxer views as well as unvaccinated patients who have been hospitalized with COVID-19. One of them, 53-year-old Christopher Green, is "fighting for his life," Stockton notes. And Green is hardly unique in t ...[Read more]
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Once Secret Prices Expose ‘Irrational and Cruel’ Nature of US Healthcare System
With hospitals across the U.S. refusing to comply with a new federal rule requiring them to disclose the prices they negotiate with health insurers, a sampling of previously secret data published late Sunday reveals how much basic medical procedures cost ...[Read more]
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Venezuela’s Gangs Have Been Turned into Armed Capitalist Enterprises (Part II)
n July, security forces carried out a three-day anti-gang operation in the Cota 905 barrio of Caracas after an uptick in violence in the working-class district. The Gran Cacique Indio Guacaipuro Operation, which caught the headlines of the global media, i ...[Read more]
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Pfizer Vaccine Gets Full FDA Approval, Potentially Triggering Mandates
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine full approval Monday, potentially opening the door to more vaccine mandates. The Pfizer vaccine previously only had emergency use authorization (EUA), which meant that the F ...[Read more]
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Anger Mounts at Handful of Right-Wing Dems Still Threatening to Kill $3.5 Trillion Plan
Frustration with a small group of conservative House Democrats boiled over Monday as the party failed to reach an agreement to pass a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, a step that would pave the way for major investments in climate action, Medicare expansi ...[Read more]
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