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Melvis Acosta

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More Money, Better Stories: Why Hollywood Needs More Latinos

More Money, Better Stories: Why Hollywood Needs More Latinos

“I was like, Oh, my God, look at her. She’s like me; she speaks Spanish, and she has an accent like my mom.” That’s how Mathia Vargas...

23.01.2025 3

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Biden Makes History by Commuting 4,000 Total Sentences in Last Days in Office

Biden Makes History by Commuting 4,000 Total Sentences in Last Days in Office

This morning President Joe Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people serving longer prison terms for convictions...

17.01.2025 6

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Drug War Victims Have Been Incarcerated for Decades. Biden Has Just Days to Free Them.

Drug War Victims Have Been Incarcerated for Decades. Biden Has Just Days to Free Them.

President Joe Biden is running out of time, and so are federal prisoners awaiting clemency for marijuana-related criminal charges stemming from a...

16.01.2025 8

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Eric Adams Might Just Deport His Way to a Pardon

Mother Jones illustration; Chepa Beltran/Sipa USA/AP, Richard Drew/AP Donald Trump has promised to carry out the biggest mass deportations in...

20.12.2024 10

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Biden Commutes Nearly 1,500 Prison Sentences in Record-Breaking Clemency

President Biden smiles at an event in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Susan Walsh/AP Today, President Joe Biden announced that he will...

12.12.2024 5

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Where’s Pedro Moreno’s Pardon?

Pedro Moreno, now 64, is serving a life term in federal prison for marijuana-related charges. Leo Pfeifer/Ground Floor On November 19, 1996, Pedro...

10.12.2024 20

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Hunter Got a Pardon. Will Drug War Victims?

President Joe Biden walking with his son, Hunter, in July 2024. Susan Walsh/AP On Sunday, with less than two months remaining in his presidency,...

03.12.2024 4

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Arizona Passes Measure to Arrest Immigrants Who Enter the US Illegally

A group sits in front of the Tucson, Arizona section of the US-Mexico border. Matt York/AP Arizona voters passed Proposition 314, a measure that...

06.11.2024 6

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FEMA Needs Help—Now. Mike Johnson Said No.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at the Capitol on September 25, 2024. Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP With the Federal Emergency Management Agency reeling...

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Trump Blames Migrants, Not the Climate Crisis, for FEMA Funding Issues

St. Petersburg’s Shore Acres neighborhood on September 27, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Mike Carlson/AP On Wednesday, Homeland Security...

05.10.2024 5

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Don’t Let Vance Fool You—Trump Would Separate Millions of Families

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance speaks at the Georgia Faith and Freedom Coalition dinner in Atlanta on September 16. Mike...

02.10.2024 4

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What Immigration Experts Want From a Harris Administration

Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP, Ivan Valencia/AP; Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Zuma Republicans have falsely labeled Kamala Harris as...

16.09.2024 2

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What Drug Policy Advocates Want to See From a Kamala Harris Administration

Mother Jones; Leigh Vogel/POOL/Zuma; Unsplash Kamala Harris has joked about experimenting with marijuana and—unlike another famous...

05.08.2024 7

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