The Mexican government has reported that officials found two dead bodies stuck to buoys — installed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to make it more dangerous for asylum seekers to cross the southern border into the U.S. — which the Biden administration ordered to be taken down last month. Mexico Foreign Relations officials said that the Texas Department of Public Safety notified the Mexican…
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Cryptocurrency brokers are skipping out on at least half of their tax obligations, experts have estimated — and a group of senators is urging federal officials to crack down on what analysts say is an at least $50 billion tax gap caused by crypto tax evaders. Four senators, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), sent a letter on Tuesday to federal regulators urging them to swiftly…
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Matthew DePerno, a leader of a plot to help former President Donald Trump overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in Michigan, was arraigned and charged by Michigan prosecutors on Tuesday. DePerno, the former Republican candidate in the 2022 race for state attorney general, is facing four felony charges that come after a yearlong probe into the scheme by D.J. Hilson…
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The latest indictment against former President Donald Trump regarding his sweeping campaign to go against the will of the American public and overturn the 2020 election includes one charge under a civil rights law originally enacted to combat the terror and violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan. Special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with four felony counts on Tuesday…
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On the heels of what is likely the worst heat wave across the globe in recorded history, data shows that heat-related deaths have been rapidly rising over the past decade — even without yet taking into account this year’s record-breaking heat. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data analyzed by The Guardian, heat related deaths in the U.S. nearly doubled between 2010 and 2022…
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As former President Donald Trump continues losing court cases and facing serious charges from government prosecutors, new polling finds that — despite a rising share of Republicans who believe he may be guilty of serious crimes — support for the former president for the upcoming presidential primaries remains high and extremely stable. According to a poll by The New York Times/
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The Biden administration is launching an initiative to study long COVID and, for the first time, carry out clinical trials to study potential treatments for the illness. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the formation of the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice on Monday. The office will study the illness that leaves some with chronic exhaustion, pain, brain fog…
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Another indictment against Donald Trump is imminent after the former president lost another bid to halt his case in Georgia, where the Fulton County district attorney has said charges are “ready to go” in the probe over his efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election in the state. Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney issued a ruling on Monday saying that Trump and fake…
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A group of senators is urging the Department of Justice to file lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over its decades-long campaign to deny its impact on the climate crisis on the last day of what scientists predict will be the hottest month on Earth on record. On Monday, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and Elizabeth Warren (D…
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has condemned Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after the conservative essentially claimed that the Supreme Court has absolute power over other branches of government, including Congress. “What a surprise, guy who is supposed to enforce checks and balances thinks checks shouldn’t apply to him,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Friday, in response to a laudatory…
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On Thursday, a judge ruled in favor of activists attempting to put Cop City on a ballot this fall, issuing a scathing decision saying that Atlanta officials placed unlawful restrictions on activists’ ballot effort. U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen ruled that the city was unjustified in forcing Stop Cop City activists to prove their Atlanta residency before being allowed to collect signatures to…
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Federal prosecutors added new charges to Donald Trump’s indictment over his alleged mishandling of classified documents in his Florida residence on Thursday, now saying that the former president ordered an employee to delete security camera footage in order to obstruct prosecutors’ investigation. The new charges, added to the 37 others Trump faces in the documents case, accuse the former president…
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As hundreds of thousands of workers strike across the country in a summer marked by increased labor activity, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) has introduced a bill that would allow workers on strike to access government food assistance and make it easier for workers to exercise their labor rights. The Food Secure Strikers Act of 2023, introduced onThursday, would repeal a Ronald-Reagan era…
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Though Fox News reached an agreement with Dominion Voting Systems earlier this year to pay one of the largest media settlements in history over the outlet’s repeated lies regarding the 2020 election, the corporation may be able to soften the blow — to the tune of a $200 million tax break, reporters found earlier this year. Now, one Senate Democrat is trying to change that. Sen.
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Far right influence peddler Leonard Leo rebuffed Senate Democrats’ inquiry into his reportedly extremely close relationship with Supreme Court justices this week, making an argument that experts have criticized as “comically absurd.” David B. Rivkin Jr., a lawyer for Leo, wrote in a defiant letter that Senate Judiciary leaders’ request that Leo account for any gifts and favors he’s given to…
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Instead of banning neo-Nazis and white supremacists who have overrun Twitter (recently renamed X) and caused concerns for advertisers on the platform, the company is threatening advertisers, saying that if they don’t spend a certain amount of money each quarter, they could risk losing their verification and being impersonated on the platform. According to emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced a bill on Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in 14 years and end the longest period that the wage hadn’t been increased since the minimum wage was established decades ago. The bill would raise the current federal minimum wage by nearly $10 an hour, increasing it from the current level of $7.25 to $17 an hour over the next five…
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As the pharmaceutical industry is toiling around the clock to destroy Democrats’ plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, a new report reveals that top industry players are raking in billions, padding their own pockets as they work to revoke benefits from millions of people. According to an analysis by Accountable.US, the five biggest pharmaceutical companies in the U.S.
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The Teamsters have reached a new agreement with UPS that the union is touting as the “most historic” deal in the history of the company, likely avoiding a 340,000-worker strike that was slated to start August 1. The union and the company announced the deal on Tuesday, just hours after the parties had returned to the bargaining table following a collapse in negotiations earlier this month.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) delivered a fiery speech to television actors and writers on the picket line in New York City as the labor movement’s “hot labor summer” heats up with 160,000 television and film workers on strike. “Your fight right here is what’s going to bust this thing wide open,” Ocasio-Cortez said into a megaphone, to cheers from the strikers. “We are in a hot labor…
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As the climate crisis and an El Niño event push temperatures to record highs across continents, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) is raising the alarm that the “Earth is screaming at us” to stop the use of fossil fuels and move quickly to address the climate crisis. “The fuse has been burning for decades, and now the climate change bomb has gone off,” Inslee said in an interview with ABC over the…
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Just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to end race-based affirmative action in college admissions, a new study suggests that “affirmative action” for the rich is very much alive when wealthy Americans seek acceptance to the most elite colleges in the U.S. According to a study released Monday by Opportunity Insights, a Harvard University-based research group, students from families within the…
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The House passed a bill this week aimed at barring schools and universities from giving shelter to asylum seekers in a time when members of both major parties are increasing their attacks on migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. The Schools Not Shelters Act, originally introduced by Republican Rep. Marcus Molinaro (New York), passed the House 222 to 201 on Wednesday, with Republicans joined by four…
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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Thursday that would force the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code for the first time in history. The committee voted along party lines to approve Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-Rhode Island) Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act, which is aimed at reining in corruption among justices in a time when new…
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In the first year of abortion being nearly fully banned in Texas, infant mortality rose for the first time in seven years, nearly entirely undoing years of progress on infant mortality in a single year, new data shows. According to preliminary data obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services by CNN, infant mortality increased by 11.5 percent in 2022 over the previous year. Overall…
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A hearing in a lawsuit over Texas’s abortion ban was put on pause on Wednesday after a woman who recounted her traumatic pregnancy and birth threw up during her heart-wrenching testimony. In a county courthouse in Austin, Texas, Samantha Casiano took the stand to describe how she was denied an abortion after learning that her baby had a fatal condition, forcing her to carry and give birth to a non…
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Two hundred members of Congress have expressed their backing of the impending UPS worker strike and have pledged not to support any potential effort by lawmakers to prevent the workers from striking. Lawmakers in the House and the Senate sent letters to Teamsters President Sean O’Brien and UPS CEO Carol Tomé this week stating their support for the workers, who are slated to go on strike as soon as…
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When Universal Pictures studios trimmed several trees lining a writers’ picket line to bare bones this week amid a sweltering heat wave, they did so without obtaining a permit from the city, making the move potentially illegal, Los Angeles officials have found. On Monday, comedian and TV writer Chris Stephens noted on Twitter that, over the weekend, NBCUniversal corporation appeared to have…
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