Lawmaker Who Won Squeaker Touts Election Integrity, Rips ‘Zuckerbucks’
A New York congresswoman who was elected by a razor thin margin recounted major voting-related issues that still kept her awake at night during a panel discussion on Tuesday. “The thing that keeps me up at night right now is this issue of vote-harvesting that happened under Mark Zuckerberg, The Facebook billionaire [who] spent $419 […]
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Trump Calls for the Execution of Drug Dealers in D.C. Rally Speech
At a rally on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump demanded that the police be strengthened and that drug dealers convicted of being drug dealers be sentenced to death. This was his first appearance in Washington D.C. after his departure from the White House. The penalties for drug dealers “should be very, very severe,” Trump told […]
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Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Byron Donalds Discuss School Choice
Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday that school choice is the most important domestic issue of our time. The Republican senator was joined by Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Kellyanne Conway (ex-senior counselor to President Donald Trump). Conway noted that a child with a poor education is more likely to face poverty, crime, or addiction later […]
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Fed Rate Hikes Are “Body Blow” to Workers Reeling From Pandemic
We speak with Marxist economist Richard Wolff about how experts forecast another economic recession in the United States, with inflation at a historic high and a federal minimum wage that hasn’t changed for 13 years. The Federal Reserve plan to combat rising inflation by raising interest rates delivers a “body blow to a working class” […]
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Democrats’ Drug Pricing Plan “Goes Nowhere Near as Far as It Should”
Chairperson of the Senate Budget Committee Bernie Sanders on Tuesday blasted Democrats’ watered-down drug pricing plan and suggested pharmaceutical industry lobbying weakened the proposal. “It’s a very weak proposal. It goes nowhere near as far as it should,” Sanders (I-Vt.) told NBC News’ Sahil Kapur. The deal unveiled Medicare would be able to negotiate prices […]
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US’s Reactive Polio Strategy Could Be Silently Putting Many at Risk
About a month ago, British health authorities announced they’d found evidence suggesting local spread of polio in London. It was a shock, it was true. In 2003, the country was declared polio-free. However, no one was actually sick. Routine tests of sewage samples provided proof that the virus was present. This can alert health officials […]
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Texas Republican Seeks to Limit HIV Medication Access After Winning Abortion Ban
A prominent conservative lawyer who craftedThe Texas bounty hunter antiabortion law was the catalyst for the legal path to its repeal Roe v. WadeA new lawsuit has been filed by the plaintiff to limit access to preventive HIV medications known as HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (or PrEP). Jonathan Mitchell, a former Republican Solicitor General of Texas […]
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‘Impossible’ to know if Randox contracts were awarded properly
In a highly critical report published today, the House of Commons public accounts committee says that “woefully inadequate record-keeping”, failing to meet even basic requirements to publicly report ministers’ meetings with external parties or deal with potential conflicts of interest, “despite clear concerns about Randox’s political connections” means it is “impossible to have confidence” that […]
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Shadow transport minister defies Starmer on rail strike picketing
Labour’s shadow transport minister Sam Tarry is joining striking rail workers on the picket lines this morning. This is despite Sir Keir starmer’s prohibition against his frontbench team doing this. Speaking to ITV One’s Good Morning Britain programme outside of London Euston station today, Tarry explained: “Some of the lowest-paid workers are on strike today […]
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7 Takeaways From Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy Speech
Trump, the former President, focused mainly on fighting crime and keeping Americans secure. However, he veered into other topics Tuesday in remarks jam-packed with policy proposals that lasted more than 90 minutes. “We need an all-out effort to defeat violent crime in America and strongly defeat it and be tough and be nasty and be […]
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