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Trump’s Aggression Against Canada Is Boosting Liberal Party’s Election Chances

Trump’s Aggression Against Canada Is Boosting Liberal Party’s Election Chances

If a political analyst had said a year ago that the U.S. would soon make a serious play to annex Canada and absorb it as the 51st state, that...

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Sasha Abramsky

Judge Halts Trump’s Anti-DEI Executive Orders Targeting Federal Contractors

Judge Halts Trump’s Anti-DEI Executive Orders Targeting Federal Contractors

U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to rid the federal government and corporations of programs that promote inclusive hiring practices hit a...

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Julia Conley

After an Ex-IDF Soldier’s Threats, Anti-Palestinian Racism Left Me Unprotected

After an Ex-IDF Soldier’s Threats, Anti-Palestinian Racism Left Me Unprotected

“I’m going to report you. I can get you fired for that,” an ex-IDF soldier threatens in the hospital hallway. The former IDF soldier now working...

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Morgen A. Chalmiers

Palestinians Say Israel Is Violating Ceasefire Terms to Force Them Out of Gaza

Palestinians Say Israel Is Violating Ceasefire Terms to Force Them Out of Gaza

Even though a ceasefire started just over a month ago, Israel is still working to make Gaza unlivable. On Monday, the Gaza Government Media Office...

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Tareq S. Hajjaj

Judge in Eric Adams Case Refuses to Let Trump’s DOJ Immediately Drop Charges

Judge in Eric Adams Case Refuses to Let Trump’s DOJ Immediately Drop Charges

A federal judge on Friday did not immediately sign off on the U.S. Department of Justice’s bid to abandon federal corruption charges brought...

yesterday 10

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Eloise Goldsmith

Civilians in Congo Suffer as Elites at Home and Abroad Jockey for Profits

Civilians in Congo Suffer as Elites at Home and Abroad Jockey for Profits

During the past few weeks in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a lengthy conflict has been condensed into a series of violent episodes...

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Nicolas Niarchos

Senate Republicans Signal Intent to Slash Medicaid Funding in Upcoming Budget

Senate Republicans Signal Intent to Slash Medicaid Funding in Upcoming Budget

Senate Republicans approved a budget resolution early Friday after rejecting a flurry of Democratic amendments aimed at preventing cuts to...

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Jake Johnson

Senate Confirms Trump Loyalist Kash Patel to Lead the FBI

Senate Confirms Trump Loyalist Kash Patel to Lead the FBI

On Thursday, the United States Senate narrowly confirmed Kash Patel to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Patel is a loyalist to...

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Chris Walker

Trump Wants Us to Fear ICE — Our Resistance Must Spread Solidarity, Not Panic

Trump Wants Us to Fear ICE — Our Resistance Must Spread Solidarity, Not Panic

Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raided a home up the street from my house. A neighbor, Alisa Cullison, saw three...

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Lewis Raven Wallace

Local NY Sheriff Faces Threats of Federal Prosecution for Not Complying With ICE

Local NY Sheriff Faces Threats of Federal Prosecution for Not Complying With ICE

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here....

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Julia Rock

Water Access in North Gaza, Rafah Down to 7 Percent of Pre-Genocide Levels

Water Access in North Gaza, Rafah Down to 7 Percent of Pre-Genocide Levels

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has destroyed over 1,000 miles of water and sanitation infrastructure in Gaza and reduced the region’s water capacity to...

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Sharon Zhang

Poll: 6 in 10 Americans Think Trump Hasn’t Done Enough to Address Rising Costs

Poll: 6 in 10 Americans Think Trump Hasn’t Done Enough to Address Rising Costs

A new poll indicates that most Americans are pessimistic about the next four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, and are particularly upset with...

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Chris Walker

Universities Face Trump’s Ultimatum: End DEI or Risk Losing Federal Funding

Universities Face Trump’s Ultimatum: End DEI or Risk Losing Federal Funding

The Trump administration has issued a two-week ultimatum for schools and universities across the United States to end all programs related to...

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Amy Goodman

Trump’s Executive Orders Build Toward Dictatorial “Unitary Executive” Power

Trump’s Executive Orders Build Toward Dictatorial “Unitary Executive” Power

During his first month in office, President Donald Trump has signed a plethora of executive orders that have proclaimed a dramatic expansion of the...

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C.j. Polychroniou

Advocates Warn Anti-Trans Lawsuit Could Also Strip Disability Protections

Advocates Warn Anti-Trans Lawsuit Could Also Strip Disability Protections

A push by Republican attorneys general in 17 states to strike down part of a federal law that protects disabled people from discrimination has...

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Anna Claire Vollers

Netanyahu Orders “Intensive Operation” in West Bank Following Bus Explosions

Netanyahu Orders “Intensive Operation” in West Bank Following Bus Explosions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered yet another escalation of Israel’s military assault of the occupied West Bank after a series...

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Sharon Zhang

Florida AG Sues Target for Not Warning Investors About Anti-LGBTQ Backlash

Florida AG Sues Target for Not Warning Investors About Anti-LGBTQ Backlash

Florida filed a lawsuit against Target on Thursday, accusing the company of misleading investors by failing to disclose the financial risks...

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Zane Mcneill

Bird Flu Looms as Trump’s Mass Firings Unleash Chaos at Public Health Agencies

Bird Flu Looms as Trump’s Mass Firings Unleash Chaos at Public Health Agencies

The United States is experiencing the peak of one of the worst flu seasons in years. COVID-19 infection rates are also elevated in many parts of...

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Mike Ludwig

Trump Declares “LONG LIVE THE KING” After Blocking NYC Congestion Pricing Plan

Trump Declares “LONG LIVE THE KING” After Blocking NYC Congestion Pricing Plan

Following an action on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) seeking to limit New York City from carrying out a previously...

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Chris Walker

Circuit Court Rejects Trump Appeal of Block on Birthright Citizenship Order

Circuit Court Rejects Trump Appeal of Block on Birthright Citizenship Order

On Wednesday, a panel of judges on the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused a request from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to block...

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Chris Walker

Rates of Sepsis Soared After Texas Banned Abortion

Rates of Sepsis Soared After Texas Banned Abortion

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The...

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Lizzie Presser

Federal Workers Are Rallying the Labor Movement to Fight Musk’s Takeover

Federal Workers Are Rallying the Labor Movement to Fight Musk’s Takeover

This article was originally published by Labor Notes. Federal employee union members have been speaking out, rallying, and suing, as agency after...

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Jenny Brown

Hegseth’s Proposed Pentagon “Budget Cuts” Seemingly Won’t Reduce Spending at All

Hegseth’s Proposed Pentagon “Budget Cuts” Seemingly Won’t Reduce Spending at All

On the surface, a widely reported memo authored by Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth appears to call for significant cuts to the massive U.S. military...

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Jake Johnson

Mississippi Judge Orders Newspaper to Delete Editorial Critical of City

Mississippi Judge Orders Newspaper to Delete Editorial Critical of City

A Mississippi state judge has taken the extraordinary action of ordering a newspaper to erase an editorial from its website, claiming that the...

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Chris Walker

Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together

Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together

“We are really good at finding what’s wrong with each other,” says author and podcaster Margaret Killjoy. “We really need to challenge...

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Kelly Hayes

Musk’s Coup at the Treasury Has Been Ruled Illegal. Will That Stop Him?

Musk’s Coup at the Treasury Has Been Ruled Illegal. Will That Stop Him?

After Donald Trump’s election in November, big-time donor and billionaire adviser Elon Musk began to outline his plans to slash government spending...

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Katie Rose Quandt

As Rwanda-Backed Insurgents Wage War in Congo, Western Nations Stay Silent

As Rwanda-Backed Insurgents Wage War in Congo, Western Nations Stay Silent

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents, who have already taken two key cities in the mineral-rich...

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Amy Goodman

Pentagon Schools Pull JD Vance’s Memoir Amid Trump-Era Book Purge

Pentagon Schools Pull JD Vance’s Memoir Amid Trump-Era Book Purge

Librarians at Department of Defense-run schools, which educate 67,000 children of American military members, have been instructed to remove books...

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Zane Mcneill

Trump Backs House GOP Bill Slashing $1 Trillion From Medicaid and Food Stamps

Trump Backs House GOP Bill Slashing $1 Trillion From Medicaid and Food Stamps

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump endorsed a House Republican budget plan that would impose hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid,...

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Chris Walker

Study: 20 Million People Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under GOP Bill

Study: 20 Million People Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under GOP Bill

A new study projects as many as 20 million people could lose Medicaid coverage under a Republican congressional bill to cut the Affordable Care...

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Amy Goodman

Kansas Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Minors After Veto Override

Kansas Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Minors After Veto Override

Kansas became the 27th state to impose limitations on gender-affirming care for minors after Republican lawmakers successfully overturned the...

19.02.2025 7

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Zane Mcneill

Utah Bill Would Disenfranchise Rural Native Residents, Critics Warn

Utah Bill Would Disenfranchise Rural Native Residents, Critics Warn

Utah state legislators are considering a bill that would change the state’s popular voting by mail system to require ballots received by mail to be...

19.02.2025 7

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Chris Walker

J.D. Vance Met With German Neo-Nazi Party Leader Alice Weidel

J.D. Vance Met With German Neo-Nazi Party Leader Alice Weidel

Last week, Vice President J.D. Vance met with Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-chair Alice Weidel, a political leader in that party who has...

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Chris Walker

Trump’s Attack on Agencies’ Independence Aims to Spark Legal Fight, Experts Say

Trump’s Attack on Agencies’ Independence Aims to Spark Legal Fight, Experts Say

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at bringing the nation’s independent agencies — including the Federal Trade...

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Jake Johnson

Commercial AI Has Become a Key Enabler of Israel’s Mass Killing of Palestinians

Commercial AI Has Become a Key Enabler of Israel’s Mass Killing of Palestinians

Several recent journalistic investigations — including one published Tuesday by The Associated Press — have deepened the understanding of how...

19.02.2025 9

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Brett Wilkins

As Suppression of Dissent Increases, Know Your Rights If the FBI Comes Knocking

As Suppression of Dissent Increases, Know Your Rights If the FBI Comes Knocking

Mara Sapon-Shevin always wondered if she had an FBI file. For more than 40 years, the Syracuse University professor has been a political activist...

19.02.2025 7

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Schuyler Mitchell

Experts Warn No Action on High Rents Could Drive Voters to Germany’s Far Right

Experts Warn No Action on High Rents Could Drive Voters to Germany’s Far Right

As Germany heads toward a snap election for its Lower House of Parliament on February 23, signs dotting the nation’s cities ask voters: Is your...

19.02.2025 6

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Marianne Dhenin

Kemp Touts Georgia’s Alternative to Medicaid Expansion Despite Missing Key Goals

Kemp Touts Georgia’s Alternative to Medicaid Expansion Despite Missing Key Goals

This story was originally published by ProPublica . ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story...

19.02.2025 1

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Margaret Coker

Retailers Ration Eggs as Prices Jump 18 Percent Since Trump Inauguration

Retailers Ration Eggs as Prices Jump 18 Percent Since Trump Inauguration

Multiple national grocery retailers are imposing limits on how many cartons of eggs consumers can purchase amid a shortage of the product and...

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Chris Walker

Missouri Clinics Resume Abortions After Judge Strikes Restrictions

Missouri Clinics Resume Abortions After Judge Strikes Restrictions

Missouri health care providers can now resume offering abortion care after a Jackson County circuit court judge temporarily blocked a restrictive...

18.02.2025 10

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Zane Mcneill

Oscar-Nominated Palestinian Director Condemns Global Inaction Against Israel

Oscar-Nominated Palestinian Director Condemns Global Inaction Against Israel

The Israeli-Palestinian film No Other Land is nominated for an Oscar for best documentary at this year’s awards, to be held March 2. It follows the...

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Amy Goodman

Acting Social Security Commissioner Resigns Amid Pressure From “DOGE”

Acting Social Security Commissioner Resigns Amid Pressure From “DOGE”

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration has resigned from her post, after serving the agency for over three decades, in...

18.02.2025 10

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Chris Walker

Leonard Peltier Is Released After Nearly 50 Years in Prison

Leonard Peltier Is Released After Nearly 50 Years in Prison

Indigenous rights and criminal justice reform advocates on Tuesday celebrated as Native American political activist Leonard Peltier, who has...

18.02.2025 10

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Julia Conley

Trump’s Plan to Make America Healthy Again? Continued Exposure to Lead in Water.

Trump’s Plan to Make America Healthy Again? Continued Exposure to Lead in Water.

For decades, scientists and medical workers have warned that even low levels of lead in human blood can have a deleterious impact on health. But...

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Eleanor J. Bader

IRS Said He Led the “Worst of the Worst” Tax Scams. Now He’s a Trump Adviser. 

IRS Said He Led the “Worst of the Worst” Tax Scams. Now He’s a Trump Adviser. 

This story was originally published by ProPublica . ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story...

18.02.2025 10

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Peter Elkind

Pain Clinics Exploited Opioid Dependency to Earn Millions From Ineffective Shots

Pain Clinics Exploited Opioid Dependency to Earn Millions From Ineffective Shots

McMinnville, Tennessee — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back feel worse — so she could get the...

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Brett Kelman

I’m 1 of More Than 600 People on CA’s Death Row. Newsom Must End Death Penalty.

I was arrested on Easter Sunday in 1999 while driving through the small town of Lemoore, California. I was held in a local county jail for seven...

18.02.2025 3

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Timothy James Young