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DC organizations are pointing to a pattern of weaponizing official investigations to intimidate civil society groups.
Plug-in balcony solar panels can never match the booming rooftop solar movement that state utility regulators derailed.
The threat is the latest of Trump's wide-ranging efforts to undermine democratic processes ahead of the midterms.
Millions of Medicare enrollees will see premiums rise by 50 percent in 2027, a new analysis finds.
The industry uses fantasies of technological dominance to paper over financial shortcomings and demands for regulation.
“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” Pike said Friday.
Missouri is among the few states to push back against Republican-drawn maps. This is how voters did it.
Having enshrined youths’ right to hug parents during visits behind bars, activists are pushing for decarceration.
Saudi, Pakistani, and Turkish leaders met with Iranian officials in Tehran, signaling their reticence to renew the war.
Ohio’s state court election has been a circus of corporate and dark money campaigning.
“All the excess cash we’re accumulating will ultimately be directed toward our owners,” one oil executive bragged.
Israel’s flattening, extraction, and reshaping of the rubble in Gaza is a continuation of its crimes, says an expert.
Andreas Malm was scheduled to speak at a conference that will also feature a co-founder of Palestine Action.
“None of us here, despite attending the wealthiest university in the entire world, make a living wage."
Organizers and workers around the world are highlighting the invisible complicity of logistics companies in genocide.
Ukraine is highly dependent on Starlink connectivity as the company has a relative monopoly in the industry.
“We have endured fear, and we will not be intimidated,” one Indigenous leader said.
The ballot measure would rewrite California’s foundational environmental law to fast-track major projects.
Organizers say the ballot amendments won’t benefit working-class people, but rather corporations and the ultra-wealthy.
Sen. Chris Murphy said the plans would lead to the “destruction of our commitment to the rule of law” if carried out.
Republicans are invoking Christianity to mobilize voters and attack the legitimacy of Muslim candidates.
“She goes, ‘I have constitutional rights.’ The arrogance,” Trump said at a rally in Texas.
Vancouver socialists won big. What comes next?
Huerta wasn’t just an organizer — she also loved life, says journalist Maria Hinojosa.
Washington state officials found several errors in the list of voters the White House has deemed ineligible.
Since Tuesday, Netanyahu has claimed that the Palestinian parties have “stolen” the election.
The incident came as a UN expert issued a report detailing Israel’s “mediacide” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Israel is uprooting and stealing ancient trees and expelling anyone who tries to reach their land in South Lebanon.
Democratic candidate Amy Acton alleges her estranged mother did nothing to protect her from her late stepfather’s abuse.
This comes as the education secretary plans to remove the Federal Student Aid office from the Department of Education.
Billionaires, AIPAC, and corporations have spent millions trying to crush progressive candidates in the midterms.
“AI is leveraged as a cudgel against the working class,” says writer and sociologist Alex Hanna.
“It can be over whenever I want it to be over,” Trump said of the historically unpopular war during a rally in Texas.
O’Keefe used a racist accent and wore what he dubbed “Muslim garb” in his failed attempt to expose “fraud.”
The president said he is giving the oil, taken by the US as part of its seizure of Venezuela, to “you people.”
The openly white supremacist policy is poised to continue through 2027, the administration has said.
Housing justice advocates say new policy proposals would empower landlords while squeezing already struggling tenants.
Among other items, the pledge asked candidates to “refrain from knowingly propagating falsehoods” about elections.
“We fear that if we do not get this government out of power, we will lose everything,” one Palestinian voter said.
Bolsonaro and his family reportedly arrived in Miami on Wednesday.
Pediatricians expect more cutbacks in the wake of federal Medicaid cuts.
The investigation’s main focus is on dealings involving an organization founded with the involvement of JD Vance.
Trump has repeatedly — and baselessly — suggested that widespread voter fraud may play a role in this year’s races.
The Republican’s campaign made the plea to help Musk avoid congressional inquiry into his DOGE work.
The agreement between the DOJ and Texas at the center of the case was labelled as “egregious collusion” by opponents.
This “severe blow” to independent media is an “unprecedented escalation,” says a journalist who previously worked there.
While in office, he was a sponsor of four fetal “personhood” bills that aimed to ban nearly all abortions nationwide.
Students were motivated to push the proposal due to drastic cuts in funding for their schools that they had no say in.
The former Hungarian prime minister is “the dream MAGA-conservative candidate,” one US official said.
Donald Trump’s second term has been a financial boon to the private prison industry.