DOJ’s Jan. 6 Inquiry Focusing on All Efforts by Trump to Undo Election
According to reporting from, the Department of Justice is intensifying its efforts in investigating attempts by former President Donald Trump (and his allies) to usurp the results of 2020’s presidential election. CNN. The department’s investigators are examining “nearly every aspect of former President Donald Trump’s efforts” to overturn the race that he lost to President […]
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The Queen’s Death Brings Growing Hope for Irish Unification
We speak with journalist and activist Eamonn McCann about Queen Elizabeth II’s legacy in Ireland and the impact of her recent death on the prospects of Irish unification. This comes as King Charles III Tuesday was McCann’s national tour to Northern Ireland, which he made in honor of his mother. His reign saw more than […]
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Here’s How We Stop the Republicans’ National Abortion Ban
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, led a group GOP senators to introduce legislation to ban abortions after 15-weeks of pregnancy. This highlights a new focus of anti-abortion lawmakers. Republicans, including Senator GrahamMany people have argued that abortion should be handled at the state level. Abortion advocates have known for a long time that Republicans would […]
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Committee Chair Asks Archives If It’s Still Missing Docs That Trump Took
To determine if Trump had retained any material from his time in office, the Chair of the House Oversight Committee asked the National Archives and Records Administration to review the documents and determine if they are missing. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D. New York), chair of the committee. wrote a letter to NARA this week making […]
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Marginalized Families Are Hit Hardest by Incarceration Beyond Prison Walls
Original publication by The 19th. Mary Estrada (56), met her husband Robert when she was just 10 years old. He was 9. They have been together all their lives, but have also spent many years apart physically. Robert Estrada’s contact with the criminal legal system began early, with time in the city’s juvenile detention facility […]
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Big Oil PR Firms Reject Invite to Hearing on Climate Disinformation
Advertising and public relations that are powerful relations firms that help the fossil fuel industry deflect and misdirect from the planetary and human harm their Big Oil clients perpetrate in the world have opted not To show up for congressional hearings taking place Wednesday — a decision that critics say helps expose their complicity in […]
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Federal Government May Have Accidentally Sent $1.3 Billion in COVID-19 Relief to People in Foreign Countries
A Monday report by the government watchdog stated that the Small Business Administration may accidentally have sent more than $1 billion in COVID-19 relief overseas to individuals. SBA provided loans up to $2,000,000 each to nonprofits and small businesses in need. the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans program as well as grants and advances. But the agency […]
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Line 3 Protesters Win Protective Ruling Against Government Repression
Indigenous water defenders andTheir allies celebrated Tuesday’s Minnesota court ruling that protected a Line 3 protest camp against illegal government repression. Jana Austad, Hubbard County District Judge, issued a ruling shielding the Indigenous-led Giniw Collective’s Camp Namewag — where opponents organize resistance to Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline — from local law enforcement’s unlawful […]
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Sanders Calls State of US Health Care an “International Embarrassment”
After a poll revealed that Americans have little faith in the U.S.’s health care system, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), took to the Senate floor Tuesday to call for Medicare for All. “While it is not discussed much in the corporate media or here in the halls of Congress, we have, today, in the United States, […]
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Poll Shows Historic Tie Between Dems & GOP Over Enthusiasm to Vote in Midterms
The “enthusiasm gap” between Democrats and Republicans for the 2022 midterm elections has closed, new polling finds, indicating that the race to control Congress is as tight as ever. Enthusiasm, in election polling, measures the rate at which a group of people says they’re excited to vote in an upcoming race or races. Though not […]
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