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Homemade Food Packages Were a Lifeline in Prison. New York Has Banned Them.

Around the holiday season, seeing my name on the prison’s “Package-Room List” always invokes feelings of being loved, familial connectedness...

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E. Paris Whitfield

Biden Commutes 37 Death Penalty Sentences — Critics Call for More

President Joe Biden has granted commutations to most of the people currently facing a federal death penalty sentence, granting the largest number...

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Chris Walker

Trump Demands Control of Panama Canal, Transfer of Greenland to U.S.

This past weekend, President-elect Donald Trump suggested that his administration would seek to reclaim parts of Panama and wrest control of the...

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Chris Walker

In Bethlehem, Palestinian Christians Demand an End to Western-Backed Genocide

Christmas celebrations are canceled in the West Bank and the city of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ’s birthplace, for the second year in a row in response...

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Amy Goodman

Trump’s Debt Ceiling Power Play Is a Prelude to the Congressional Chaos to Come

With hours left before the U.S. government was slated to run out of money last week, Elon Musk and Donald Trump took to social media to strong-arm...

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Sasha Abramsky

Ethics Report Finds Evidence Matt Gaetz Committed Statutory Rape, Other Crimes

Originally published by The 19th . Congressional investigators found evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida regularly paid women for sex;...

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Grace Panetta

Critics Slam Gerontocracy Over News of Congressmember Living at Senior Facility

Concerns that elected officials in Congress are too old resurfaced over the weekend following news that retiring U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, 81, has...

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Eloise Goldsmith

Trump’s HUD Secretary Pick Has a History of Fighting Housing Assistance

This story was originally published by ProPublica . As Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Scott...

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Jesse Coburn

Elon Musk’s Threat to Primary Democrats Spurs New Urgency to Ban Super PACs

Trump-backer and richest person alive Elon Musk’s role in almost forcing a government shutdown this week has revived calls for campaign finance...

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Olivia Rosane

Trump’s Appointee for Social Security Raises Fears of Austerity and Cuts

Earlier this month, in a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump announced his incoming administration’s nomination to head the Social Security...

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Tyler Walicek

US’s First Overdose Prevention Site Continues Research-Backed, Lifesaving Work

This story was originally published at Prism . At 8 a.m. on a Monday morning, most of the soft recliners in the waiting area of the three-story...

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Rebecca L. Root

2024 Saw Organized Labor Score Gains, But Challenges Loom on the Horizon

Union workers broke open the cookie jar in 2024, after years of stagnant wages and rising prices. With strikes and the threat of strikes, workers...

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Jenny Brown

The Once Refreshing Stillness of Gaza’s Winter Has Become a Haunting Silence

Winter at our home in Gaza was always a season of love, warmth and the irresistible aroma of delicious food. Following my grandmother’s timeless...

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Shahad Ali

Netanyahu Tapped a Far Right Settler to Be the Next Israeli Ambassador to the US

Last month, immediately following the U.S. elections, Benjamin Netanyahu made a new appointment to the role of Israel’s ambassador to the U.S.:...

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Jonathan Ofir

Congress Averts Government Shutdown After Trump and Musk’s Effort to Sink Deal

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill 366-34 on Friday night to continuing funding the government, averting the shutdown that loomed...

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Olivia Rosane

Nearly 120 Anti-LGBTQ Bills Filed Across the US Before 2025 Has Even Started

After a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation, 2025 is shaping up to be even more challenging for transgender and queer people across the...

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Erin Reed

Luigi Mangione’s Indictment Is Another Example of the Dangers of Terror Charges

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Tuesday against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing...

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Schuyler Mitchell

Israel’s War on Gaza Is a War on Children

In November, over a year into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a report by the Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management produced a...

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Henry A. Giroux

Affordable Care Act Sign-Ups Lag Following Trump’s Election

New enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are on pace to trail last year’s record numbers by as many as a million as the outgoing Biden...

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Julie Appleby

US Petrochemical Plants Send Millions of Pounds of Pollutants Into Waterways

Nearly 70 petrochemical companies across the nation, including 30 in Texas, are sending millions of pounds of pollutants into waterways each year...

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Cami Ferrell

UN Asks International Court to Probe Legality of Israel’s Ban on UNRWA

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an opinion on the legality of Israel’s...

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Sharon Zhang

Amazon Workers Speak Out Amid Unprecedented Holiday Season Strike

Thousands of Amazon workers on Thursday launched the largest strike against the retail giant in U.S. history, pressuring the company at the height...

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Amy Goodman

Government Shutdown Looms After Elon Musk Sinks Bipartisan Budget Deal

Congressional Democrats on Friday continued to target billionaire Elon Musk and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for forcing a last-minute...

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Jessica Corbett

Appalachian Communities Are Ready to Resist Trump’s Environmental Racism

The 2024 elections left the country in emotional turmoil, with deep uncertainty about the future — particularly regarding environmental justice....

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Marcia Dinkins

It’s Becoming Harder to Protest Gaza War on Campus — and Also to Teach About It

On a crisp November morning in Ithaca, New York, scores of young people gathered on the sidewalk to cheer their classmate, Sriram Parasurama, a...

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Michelle Chen

US Leaders Dragged Their Feet Fighting Bird Flu. Now We Risk Another Pandemic.

Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock...

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Amy Maxmen

Musk Endorses Neo-Nazi German Party Hours After Sanders Calls Him Authoritarian

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called out Republicans for acquiescing to billionaire Elon Musk’s demands to thwart a bipartisan spending...

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Chris Walker

Oklahoma’s Education Head Seeks to Impose Rule Targeting Undocumented Students

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters has proposed several rules for public schools that would promote a nationalist...

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Chris Walker

Palestinian Americans File Lawsuit Against US for “Abandoning” Them in Gaza

A group of Palestinian Americans is suing the U.S. government for failing to evacuate American citizens and legal residents stranded in Gaza amid...

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Sharon Zhang

Starbucks Workers United Launches 5 Days of Strikes Across the US

Starbucks workers launched five days of escalating strikes across the United States on Friday, accusing the coffee giant of reneging on its...

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Jake Johnson

Montana Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Youth in Historic Climate Case

On Wednesday, the Montana State Supreme Court ruled to keep intact a lower court’s decision from last year, which found that a law banning state...

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Chris Walker

Teamsters Launch Historic Nationwide Strike Against Amazon

The Teamsters launched what the union described as “the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history” on Thursday morning to protest the...

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Jake Johnson

President Elon? GOP Follows Billionaire Musk’s Call to Block Debt Ceiling Bill

At the behest of billionaire Elon Musk and president-elect Donald Trump, Republicans scrapped a bipartisan agreement to keep the government funded...

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Chris Walker

Report: Israel Kills Anyone Who Crosses Line Splitting North and South Gaza

Israeli forces have deemed everyone a “terrorist” in Gaza, adult or child, and are killing any Palestinians who cross an arbitrary line drawn by...

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Sharon Zhang

Survivors of Infamous California “Rape Club” Prison Win Record $116M Settlement

Image Credit: Paul Chinn / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty “When you’re in prison, the retaliation starts. … I don’t think my judge...

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Amy Goodman

Musk Slammed Trump’s Treasury Pick. But Is Scott Bessent Really That Moderate?

Donald Trump is a master of populist demagoguery. He knows exactly when to turn up the volume on his most controversial ideas, and he knows when to...

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Sasha Abramsky

Anti-Genocide Activists Target Israeli Drone Manufacturer in Brooklyn

On December 11, activists opposing the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip picketed the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City for the fifth...

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Arvind Dilawar

Charged for Protesting Police Violence in 2020, Khalif Miller Is Still in Jail

This story was originally published at Prism . Four years and two presidential election seasons after the 2020 uprisings, much of the intense...

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Tamar Sarai

New Congressional Reports Show How Dire the Climate Insurance Crisis Really Is

Five hurricanes made landfall in the United States this year, causing half a trillion dollars in damages. Flooding devastated mountain towns along...

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Tik Root

Republicans Consider Making Elon Musk Speaker of the House

Several Republican lawmakers in Congress are calling on billionaire Elon Musk, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to co-lead a purported...

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Chris Walker

Report: Israel “Systematically” Uses Palestinian Children as Human Shields

Israeli forces carried out an “unprecedented assault” on Palestinian children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in 2024, a children’s rights...

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Sharon Zhang

2 Key Humanitarian Groups Join Chorus Saying Israel Committing Acts of Genocide

On Thursday, two major humanitarian groups joined the chorus of experts and other human rights organizations saying that Israel’s slaughter of...

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Sharon Zhang

Israel Destroys Only ICU in North Gaza as Hospital Head Reports Tanks Closing In

Israel has made the last ICU in north Gaza look like a war zone after striking it with tanks, rendering the unit inoperable as part of the...

18.12.2024 5

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Sharon Zhang

Biden Admin Confirms Risks of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports But Won’t Block Them

Approving more liquefied natural gas exports would raise domestic energy prices, increase the pollution burden placed on local communities, and...

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Olivia Rosane

House Ethics Committee Votes to Release Matt Gaetz Ethics Report

On Wednesday, the House Ethics Committee announced that it will release its inquiry into former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz after previously...

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Chris Walker

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