MPs lambast lack of ‘serious effort’ on cancer workforce shortages
The health and social care committee have blasted the government’s absence of a serious effort by government to tackle gaps in the cancer workforce. The committee is represented by MPs who claim this is jeopardising early diagnosis, which is the key to improving overall survival rates. MPs in England raise alarm about the continuing and […]
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Watchdog Finds DeJoy Invests in COVID Test Company, Potentially Breaking the Law
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may have broken federal conflict of interest laws by holding investments in a company with federal government contracts for COVID rapid test kits, according to a government watchdog’s analysis of the embattled Trump appointee’s financial disclosures. The Project on Government Oversight found in a report released last weekDeJoy holds between $50,000 […]
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Dwindling Public Concern About COVID Is Handing Republicans a Gift
Of all the things I expected to say at this point in 2022, “it’s great to be a Republican right now” was nowhere among them. If you had told my a year ago that the post Trump GOP would be anything but a shattered shambles, I would have believed you. belly-laughed like Jabba the Hutt […]
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More Book Bans Sought in 2021 Than Any Other Point in Past 20 Years, Group Says
The findings of a library organization, published Monday, show that right-wing groups and parents across America are trying to limit access to books. The American Library Association (ALA) has been tracking such challenges over 20 years. In 2021, there were more than 700 challenges. These attempts to ban books were directed at books that depicted […]
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Sanders Announces Budget Committee Hearing on Corporate Greed and Profiteering
Senator Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), announced Friday that the committee would soon hold a hearing about how corporate greed is contributing rising prices and inflation. The hearing scheduled for Tuesday will highlight a “level of corporate greed [that] has only widened the gap between the top one percent and the working class,” according […]
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How the World’s Not-So-Great Powers Are Miscalculating on Ukraine
In Western military circles, it’s common to refer to the “balance of forces” — the lineup of tanks, planes, ships, missiles, and battle formations on the opposing sides of any conflict. If one side has twice as many combat assets than its opponent, and the leadership abilities of each side are roughly equal, it should […]
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Watergate Prosecutor Calls 7-Hour Gap in Trump Phone Records “Suspicious”
A former Watergate prosecutor described a gap in phone records from the Trump White House on January 6, 2021, as “suspicious,” pointing toward evidence confirming that the former president was speaking to people on the phone during the Capitol attack. According to a report by The Washington Post, the logs of former President Donald Trump […]
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How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon’s Union-Busting Campaign
We speak with the two best friends who led a drive to organize workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and made history Friday after a majority voted to form the first Amazon union in the U.S. We speak with Christian Smalls, interim president of the new union and former Amazon supervisor, about […]
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Poorest US Counties Suffered Twice the COVID Deaths of the Richest
A first-of-its-kind examination of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on low-income communities published Monday shows that Covid-19 has been twice as deadly in poor counties as in wealthy ones, a finding seen as a damning indictment of the U.S. government’s pandemic response. “The neglect of poor and low-wealth people in this country during a pandemic is […]
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Betsy DeVos and Her Family Are Flooding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis With Cash
Betsy DeVos, former Education Secretary, and her family donated more than $280,000 for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ re-election effort amid his crackdown on discussions of race and sexual orientation in schools. DeVos, who served four years as former President Donald Trump’s education chief, personally contributed $5,500 to a super PAC backing DeSantis’ re-election bid last […]
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