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Leonard Peltier Is Released After Nearly 50 Years in Prison

The 80-year-old activist, who always maintained his innocence, will serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement.

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Trump’s Limits on NIH Grants Could Bring Lifesaving Medical Research to a Halt

Rep. Rosa DeLauro warned that limiting grants from the National Institutes of Health will cause “irreparable damage.”

11.02.2025 20

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Google Drops Pledge to Not Use AI to Develop Weapons, Surveillance Technologies

One Google worker says there’s widespread employee sentiment that the company shouldn’t be in the “business of war."

05.02.2025 4

Julia Conley

Top Official Exits Treasury Amid Clash With Musk’s Allies Over Federal Payments

New reporting raises concerns that Musk wants to control Medicare and Social Security through access to payment systems.

31.01.2025 3

Julia Conley

Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze Sparks Alarm and Confusion

Among other things, the move threatens programs and aid that millions in the US rely on.

29.01.2025 30

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Fracking CEO Slammed Ahead of His Confirmation Hearing for Energy Secretary

The Sierra Club called Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright the “personification of 'conflict of interest.'”

15.01.2025 4

Julia Conley

Sunrise Calls on Next DNC Chair to Curb Corporate Influence in Democratic Party

The youth climate group wants bans on super PAC spending in primaries and corporate lobbyist donations to the DNC.

14.01.2025 3

Julia Conley

Judge Blocks Title IX Protections for Trans Youth and Other Vulnerable Students

The ruling strikes down expanded anti-discrimination protections proposed by Biden's Department of Education last April.

10.01.2025 3

Julia Conley

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Say Insurance Industry Is to Blame in UHC CEO Killing

In the wake of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in early December, some political observers were taken aback by the public...

29.12.2024 1

Julia Conley

Lawmakers and Free Speech Groups Urge SCOTUS to Overturn Impending TikTok Ban

On Friday evening, President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief with the Supreme Court that took no position on whether a ban on TikTok would violate...

29.12.2024 4

Julia Conley

Over 120 House Democrats Urge Biden to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

With weeks to go until President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office with a Republican trifecta in the White House, Senate, and House of...

16.12.2024 4

Julia Conley

Rep. Ro Khanna Rebukes ABC Anchor for Dismissing Possibility of Medicare for All

Advocates for a government-run healthcare program applauded U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna for pushing back during a Sunday morning interview in which ABC...

09.12.2024 4

Julia Conley

Wealth of the World’s Billionaires Has More Than Doubled Over the Past Decade

Driven largely by the accumulation of massive wealth by the richest people in the United States, the Swiss wealth manager UBS said Thursday the...

07.12.2024 3

Julia Conley

4.3M Consumers Set to Get Checks From Agency Trump and Musk Want to “Delete”

In the coming weeks, as President-elect Donald Trump’s second term approaches and his pledge to dismantle key agencies potentially comes closer to...

06.12.2024 4

Julia Conley

Progressives Say Trump’s Pick to Run IRS Will Spark “Open Season for Tax Cheats”

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Internal Revenue Service, former Rep. Billy Long, didn’t serve on the House committee tasked...

05.12.2024 3

Julia Conley

Federal Court Rules Idaho Can Enforce Law Banning Interstate Travel for Abortion

Nearly two years after it was first proposed by Republican lawmakers, an Idaho law that, as one rights advocate said, essentially “traps” people in...

03.12.2024 3

Julia Conley

CAIR Calls for Protection of Reps. Tlaib and Omar After Florida Senator Randy Fine’s Threats

The country’s largest Muslim civil rights group on Thursday called for added protections for U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar after Florida...

28.11.2024 3

Julia Conley

French Foreign Ministry Says It Won’t Enforce ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu

A day after French Prime Minister Michel Barnier told Parliament that the government would fulfill its obligations as a state party to the Rome...

27.11.2024 3

Julia Conley

Trump Picks Medicare Privatization Proponent Dr. Oz to Oversee Medicare Agency

If confirmed to be the next U.S. secretary of health and human services, anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could be working “closely”...

20.11.2024 1

Julia Conley

Aid Entering Gaza “At Its Lowest Level in Months” as Israel Ignores US Deadline

As the deadline set by the Biden administration last month for Israel to step up aid deliveries to Gaza passed on Tuesday, human rights groups...

12.11.2024 1

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Trump Threatens to Defund Schools for Teaching US History

Education advocates implored voters to take Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s latest comments on public schools on Friday seriously...

19.10.2024 10

Julia Conley

Global Water Cycle Out of Balance for First Time in Human History, Report Says

Decades of mismanagement of water resources, deforestation, and the fossil fuel-driven crisis of global warming have put “unprecedented stress” on...

18.10.2024 3

Julia Conley

Georgia Judge Strikes Down Rule Mandating Hand Counting of Ballots

For the second time in 24 hours, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney struck down a Georgia election rule proposed by allies of...

16.10.2024 2

Julia Conley

Georgia Judge Rules Local Officials Can’t Refuse to Certify Election Results

Democratic officials and voting rights advocates on Tuesday celebrated “a victory for voters” in the crucial battleground state of Georgia after a...

15.10.2024 3

Julia Conley

FEMA Workers Told to Flee North Carolina After Threats From “Armed Militias”

A progressive policy group in North Carolina was among those expressing alarm on Sunday as news spread that federal emergency workers were forced...

14.10.2024 1

Julia Conley

Hiroshima Survivor and Nuke Abolitionist Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Spotlights Gaza

Calling for peace in war zones around the world and an end to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, a grassroots group organized by survivors of...

11.10.2024 10

Julia Conley

Banned Books in US Tripled to at Least 10,000 Last Year Under GOP State Laws

As Banned Books Week kicked off, a leading free expression group in the U.S. announced Monday that the number of books that were pulled from...

23.09.2024 3

Julia Conley

Flooding Displaces Many in Europe as Death Toll Grows and Others Remain Missing

The international climate group Greenpeace on Friday called on European leaders to “reciprocate” the courage shown by first responders in several...

16.09.2024 1

Julia Conley

Boeing Workers Go on First Strike Since 2008 After Rejecting Tentative Contract

“We’re fighting for every family,” said the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the union that represents about 33,000...

13.09.2024 3

Julia Conley

Protests Sweep France After Macron Names Right Wing PM Despite Election Results

In cities and towns across France on Saturday, more than 100,000 people answered the call from the left-wing political party La France Insoumise...

08.09.2024 20

Julia Conley

Missouri Judge Rules Abortion Rights Ballot Initiative Invalid

Campaigners who last month celebrated the success of their effort to place an abortion rights referendum on November ballots in Missouri faced...

08.09.2024 1

Julia Conley

House GOP Is Threatening Government Shutdown to Force Through a Voter ID Measure

Leading U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday accused House Republicans of “wasting precious time catering to the hard MAGA right” as House Speaker Mike...

07.09.2024 3

Julia Conley

Human Rights Groups Tell Biden His Own Policy Requires US to Stop Arming Israel

As U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller was telling reporters on Tuesday that assessments regarding whether Israel is abiding by...

04.09.2024 2

Julia Conley

US Leads World in Subsidies for Ineffective Tech Fixes for Climate Crisis

Among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. leads the way in spending public money on so-called climate “solutions” that have been proven to “...

29.08.2024 2

Julia Conley

Trump-Appointed Judge Halts Protections for Undocumented Spouses

Immigrant rights advocates said Monday that they were “deeply troubled” by Trump-appointed judge’s ruling that brought the Biden administration’s...

27.08.2024 1

Julia Conley

National Labor Relations Board Rules Amazon Must Bargain With Delivery Drivers

A decision by the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday marked “the beginning of the end for Amazon’s favorite legal loophole,” said one...

23.08.2024 7

Julia Conley

Arkansas Supreme Court Disqualifies Abortion Amendment From November Ballot

Abortion rights defenders in Arkansas said Thursday it was “a dark day” after the state’s Supreme Court ruled a ballot measure that would enshrine...

22.08.2024 2

Julia Conley

World Could Raise $2.1 Trillion Annually by Adopting Spain’s Wealth Tax

With countries set to focus heavily on climate finance for the Global South at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference in November, the...

19.08.2024 2

Julia Conley

Harris Unveils Economic Agenda With New Child Tax Credit and Medical Debt Relief

After announcing earlier this week that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris plans to take on corporate price gouging with the first-ever federal ban...

16.08.2024 2

Julia Conley

Project 2025 Proposal Would Tax Benefits for More Than 15 Million Workers

Project 2025, the right-wing policy blueprint spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and co-authored by more than 100 former Trump administration...

15.08.2024 1

Julia Conley

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Accepts Call to Lead Bangladesh’s Interim Government

The leader of student protests over jobs and economic injustice in Bangladesh in recent weeks said Tuesday that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad...

06.08.2024 2

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Arkansas Supreme Court Orders State to Count Abortion Amendment Signatures

Abortion rights advocates in Arkansas were cautiously optimistic Tuesday evening that the state government would count the signatures of more than...

24.07.2024 1

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