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World’s Richest 1 Percent Have Already Surpassed Their Carbon Budget for 2025

World’s Richest 1 Percent Have Already Surpassed Their Carbon Budget for 2025

A new report by Oxfam highlights the disproportionate role of the ultra-wealthy in fueling the climate emergency.

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Ahead of Incoming Trump Administration, the SEIU Joins the AFL-CIO

Ahead of Incoming Trump Administration, the SEIU Joins the AFL-CIO

The SEIU’s international president said union members “are ready to unleash a new era of worker power.”

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Electric Vehicle Battery Plant Workers in Kentucky File for Election to Join UAW

Electric Vehicle Battery Plant Workers in Kentucky File for Election to Join UAW

BlueOval SK, a joint venture of Ford and the Korean firm SK On, has made clear that it will fight the organizing drive.

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Judge Aileen Cannon Temporarily Blocks Release of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump

Judge Aileen Cannon Temporarily Blocks Release of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump

Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to temporarily withhold from the American...

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Biden Permanently Bans Offshore Drilling Across 625M Acres of Coastal Territory

Biden Permanently Bans Offshore Drilling Across 625M Acres of Coastal Territory

Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal...

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Guantánamo Detainee Held Without Charge for Over Two Decades Is Repatriated

Guantánamo Detainee Held Without Charge for Over Two Decades Is Repatriated

The Biden administration announced late Monday that it transferred a Tunisian man who was never charged with a crime out of the notorious...

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Billionaire Wealth Soared in 2024. So Did Child Hunger.

Billionaire Wealth Soared in 2024. So Did Child Hunger.

An analysis published Monday by the humanitarian group Save the Children estimates that roughly 35 kids across the globe were born into hunger...

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From Big Pharma to Wall Street, Corporate Giants Bankroll Trump’s Inauguration

Some of the largest, most powerful companies in the United States are racing to finance President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund as they...

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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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Trump Offers Pentagon Job to Billionaire Whose Firm Trained Journalist’s Killers

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly offered the number-two Pentagon job to a secretive billionaire investor with close ties to the...

04.12.2024 1

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Gaza Flooding Worsens Crisis for Displaced Families Amid Israel’s Assault

Flooding induced by heavy rainstorms in recent days has compounded the humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip,...

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At Pennsylvania Rally, Trump Says He Wouldn’t Mind Journalists Getting Shot

During a rally on the final Sunday before the presidential election, Republican nominee Donald Trump told an audience gathered in the battleground...

04.11.2024 1

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Israel Bans UN Secretary General From the Country, Drawing Public Condemnation

Israel’s foreign minister said Wednesday that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is “persona non grata in Israel” and barred him...

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Climate Groups Praise Walz’s Callout of Trump’s Big Oil Loyalties in VP Debate

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz used the climate portion of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate with Republican Sen. JD Vance to lambast GOP nominee...

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Genocide in Gaza Has Been Deadliest Year for Women and Kids in 2 Decades

Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has been the deadliest year of conflict for women and children anywhere in the world over the past two decades,...

01.10.2024 2

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IDF Likely Dropped US-Made 2,000-Pound Bombs in Strike on Hezbollah Leader

Video footage analyzed by weapons experts indicates that Israeli forces used U.S.-supplied 2,000-pound bombs in their massive attack on Beirut that...

30.09.2024 3

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Veterans for Peace Demands Probe Into Blinken’s Enabling of Israel’s Genocide

An organization representing anti-war U.S. veterans urged the Justice Department on Monday to immediately impanel a grand jury to investigate —...

30.09.2024 2

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Quality of Elections Has Suffered Globally for 8 Consecutive Years, Report Finds

A report published Tuesday by an intergovernmental watchdog paints an alarming picture of the state of global democracy, showing that the quality...

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