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Around the holiday season, seeing my name on the prison’s “Package-Room List” always invokes feelings of being loved, familial connectedness...
President Joe Biden has granted commutations to most of the people currently facing a federal death penalty sentence, granting the largest number...
This past weekend, President-elect Donald Trump suggested that his administration would seek to reclaim parts of Panama and wrest control of the...
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...
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...
Originally published by The 19th . Congressional investigators found evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida regularly paid women for sex;...
Concerns that elected officials in Congress are too old resurfaced over the weekend following news that retiring U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, 81, has...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . As Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Scott...
Trump-backer and richest person alive Elon Musk’s role in almost forcing a government shutdown this week has revived calls for campaign finance...
Earlier this month, in a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump announced his incoming administration’s nomination to head the Social Security...
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...
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...
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...
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.:...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill 366-34 on Friday night to continuing funding the government, averting the shutdown that loomed...
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...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Tuesday against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing...
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...
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...
Nearly 70 petrochemical companies across the nation, including 30 in Texas, are sending millions of pounds of pollutants into waterways each year...
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an opinion on the legality of Israel’s...
Thousands of Amazon workers on Thursday launched the largest strike against the retail giant in U.S. history, pressuring the company at the height...
Congressional Democrats on Friday continued to target billionaire Elon Musk and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for forcing a last-minute...
The 2024 elections left the country in emotional turmoil, with deep uncertainty about the future — particularly regarding environmental justice....
On a crisp November morning in Ithaca, New York, scores of young people gathered on the sidewalk to cheer their classmate, Sriram Parasurama, a...
Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock...
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called out Republicans for acquiescing to billionaire Elon Musk’s demands to thwart a bipartisan spending...
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters has proposed several rules for public schools that would promote a nationalist...
A group of Palestinian Americans is suing the U.S. government for failing to evacuate American citizens and legal residents stranded in Gaza amid...
Starbucks workers launched five days of escalating strikes across the United States on Friday, accusing the coffee giant of reneging on its...
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...
The Teamsters launched what the union described as “the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history” on Thursday morning to protest the...
At the behest of billionaire Elon Musk and president-elect Donald Trump, Republicans scrapped a bipartisan agreement to keep the government funded...
Israeli forces have deemed everyone a “terrorist” in Gaza, adult or child, and are killing any Palestinians who cross an arbitrary line drawn by...
Image Credit: Paul Chinn / The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty “When you’re in prison, the retaliation starts. … I don’t think my judge...
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...
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...
This story was originally published at Prism . Four years and two presidential election seasons after the 2020 uprisings, much of the intense...
Five hurricanes made landfall in the United States this year, causing half a trillion dollars in damages. Flooding devastated mountain towns along...
Several Republican lawmakers in Congress are calling on billionaire Elon Musk, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to co-lead a purported...
Israeli forces carried out an “unprecedented assault” on Palestinian children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in 2024, a children’s rights...
On Thursday, two major humanitarian groups joined the chorus of experts and other human rights organizations saying that Israel’s slaughter of...
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...
Approving more liquefied natural gas exports would raise domestic energy prices, increase the pollution burden placed on local communities, and...
On Wednesday, the House Ethics Committee announced that it will release its inquiry into former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz after previously...