Democrats Implore Biden Officials to Create Vaccine Rules for Domestic Flights
Four Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to Biden officials urging them establish vaccine requirements for domestic travel within the United States. In their letter, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D.California), Ritchie Torres and Reps. Don Beyer. people seeking to travel within the U.S. should be required to provide proof of vaccinationor a negative COVID-19 test, before being […]
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Sanders Urges Biden to Cancel All Student Loans After Biden Announces Freeze
After the Biden administration announcedOn Wednesday, the federal student loans payment pause was extended. Progressive lawmakers urged the president to cancel student debt. Senators and debt advocates have been pressing Joe Biden for his campaign promise of cancelling up to $10,000 of student loan debt per borrower. Others have urged him to forgive all student […]
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All They Want for the Holidays Is for Their Loved Ones to Come Home From Prison
When she was 8 years old, Bryanna Rose had one item on her Christmas wish list — for her father, Jose Colon, to come home. Ten years later, Bryanna, 18, is still waiting. “What would it mean for him to come home now? It would bring my wish to reality. It would make me happy […]
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Outdated US Cold War Policy Worsens Ongoing Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The tension at the Russia-Ukraine border is part of an ongoing conflict between two countries with many cultural affinities. It also forms part of a larger rivalry between the U.S., Europe, and Russia. In an exclusive interview, Noam Chomsky reminds of this. Truthout As you can see, in 2014, a Russia supported government in Ukraine […]
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Facing Scrutiny, Biden Administration Extends Student Loan Pause Until May
On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced that it is extending the pause on student loan payments through May 1 – a sharp reversal of its previous stance, likely due to increased pressure from debt cancellation advocates as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 sweeps the U.S. “We know that millions of student loan borrowers are still […]
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Jailhouse Lawyers Are Often Punished With Solitary Confinement
This article was created in partnership with Solitary Watch. Timothy Phillips was in the middle of working on multiple legal cases when jail staff called him away from his cell in Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail. He returned several hours later to discover that all his papers were in disarray and that his room assignment […]
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US-China Cooperation Is Essential to Avert a New Cold War
We are at an important juncture of world history. Despite the incredible progress made in certain areas of human civilization, the possibility of annihilation by interstate conflicts among competing powers using unimaginably destructive weaponry continues to haunt human relations into the 21st Century. This is despite the fact that challenges such as climatic disasters could […]
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Experts Say Toxic Chemicals May Be Linked to Childhood Cancer
This story was jointly covered by Public Health WatchThe Investigative Reporting Workshop. In April 2008, Jonathan Agin’s 27-month-old daughter, Alexis, was diagnosed with DIPG, a rare brain tumor. Agin, then a civil defense lawyer in Washington, D.C., was dislodged from his comfortable life and dragged into the surreal world of a young cancer victim’s parent: […]
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First US Omicron Death Was Reinfection, Debunking GOP’s “Natural Immunity” Claim
The first person to die from the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the U.S. had already been infected with COVID in the past, further discrediting “natural immunity” claims made by conservative politicians who oppose mask and vaccine mandates. The victim who died was a male between 50 and 60 years old who had been infected […]
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Trump’s COVID Army Boos Him for Revealing That He Received a Booster Shot
One of the most memorable moments in the presidency of Donald J. Trump is the March 6th 2020 visit he made at the Center for Disease Control. COVID-19 hadn’t even been named yet and the World Health Organization (WHO) hadn’t yet designated it a pandemic but we all knew that something very bad was happening. […]
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