This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Here’s a reckless prediction: a decade or so from now, when the climate revolution is fully underway and Miami Beach real estate prices are in free-fall …
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President Trump isn’t worried about the economy. No really, he isn’t. Everything is going to be fine. Seriously. All of that talk of a recession last week and over the weekend, spurred by a few ominous market indicators, a sputtering global economy, and Trump’s continuing trade war with China, was …
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During the Everytown Gun Safety Town Hall in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang was brought to tears after a woman in the audience shared a gut wrenching story about losing her four-year daughter. Prior to asking a question the woman said her daughter was struck …
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WASHINGTON — It was a pretty straightforward request. In January, the watchdog group American Oversight asked the Department of Homeland Security to provide the number of analysts inside the agency’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis devoted to working on “non-Islamist domestic terrorism threats” —including right-wing extremism or attacks motivated by …
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President Donald Trump‘s propaganda media arm, Fox News, reveled in the president’s racist tweet that told “Progressive Democrat Congresswomen” to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came.” It’s yet another clearly racist remark from our vile racist-in-chief, this time aimed at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida …
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Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he’s resigning, six days after hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in New Jersey on charges involving the sex trafficking of underage girls. Acosta made the announcement from the White House Friday morning, alongside President Donald Trump. Trump told reporters it was Acosta’s …
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The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security is calling for “immediate” action to address “dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults” at Border Patrol facilities in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The report includes disturbing photographs of conditions one senior manager at …
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The National Rifle Association has suspended its longtime head of political operations, Chris Cox, after filing a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court that fingers Cox as a participant in the failed April coup attempt against the gun lobby’s CEO, Wayne LaPierre. Cox is a towering figure in the gun …
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On Saturday, the New York Times published an important story about how the United States military branches are attempting to thwart and combat Russian cyber attacks on American utility networks and interference in elections. But deeper into the article, an interesting and disturbing nugget has drawn attention: The Pentagon has …
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Both Facebook and Twitter have been hammered this week because both platforms have refused to take down doctored videos of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that were distorted to make her appear either unwell or under the influence of a substance that would cause slurred speech. On Friday, CNN’s …
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