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Month: September 2020
After House Progressives Make Move to 'Flex Our Muscles,' Pelosi Backs Down on Drug Pricing Bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, faced with a united front of progressive Democrats pushing back against a drug pricing bill seen as insufficient, blinked on Tuesday “After House Progressives Make Move to 'Flex Our Muscles,' Pelosi Backs Down on Drug Pricing Bill”
'The Bold Approach We Need': New Booker Ag Bill Includes First-Ever National Factory Farm Moratorium
Advocates for the environment, corporate accountability, and public health on Monday welcomed Sen. Cory Booker’s new agricultural reform bill—which would impose a first-ever national moratorium “'The Bold Approach We Need': New Booker Ag Bill Includes First-Ever National Factory Farm Moratorium”
Amid Impeachment Furor, GOP 'Hijacking' of Courts Continues as McConnell Rams Through 12 More Lifetime Trump Judges
The right-wing takeover of the U.S. courts continued apace Thursday as the Republican-controlled Senate, with the help of some Democrats, quietly confirmed a dozen more “Amid Impeachment Furor, GOP 'Hijacking' of Courts Continues as McConnell Rams Through 12 More Lifetime Trump Judges”
Typhoon Devastates Philippines With at Least 20 Dead on Christmas Day
Just over six years after Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines with devastating impacts, a less powerful but still deadly Typhoon Phanfone plowed across “Typhoon Devastates Philippines With at Least 20 Dead on Christmas Day”
Video of Trump Warning 'Our President Will Start a War With Iran Because He Has Absolutely No Ability to Negotiate' Resurfaces
Video footage of then-private citizen Donald Trump warning in 2011 that “our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability “Video of Trump Warning 'Our President Will Start a War With Iran Because He Has Absolutely No Ability to Negotiate' Resurfaces”
Study Shows Medicare for All Could Save US $600 Billion Annually on Paperwork and Other 'Useless Bureaucracy'
Insurers and healthcare providers in the United States spent a staggering $812 billion on paperwork and other administrative burdens in 2017 alone, bureaucratic costs that “Study Shows Medicare for All Could Save US $600 Billion Annually on Paperwork and Other 'Useless Bureaucracy'”
Iran Says Military Shot Down Ukraine Airliner in 'Disastrous Mistake' Amid Heightened Tensions With US
Bolstering calls from across the globe for a swift de-escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran—which ramped up after U.S. President Donald Trump “Iran Says Military Shot Down Ukraine Airliner in 'Disastrous Mistake' Amid Heightened Tensions With US”
Free Press Advocates Decry 'Unprecedented' and 'Unjustified' Restrictions on Reporter Access to Trump Impeachment Trial
Journalists, lawmakers, and free press advocates are condemning the Senate’s proposed rules for reporters as President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial gets underway—restrictions which critics say will “Free Press Advocates Decry 'Unprecedented' and 'Unjustified' Restrictions on Reporter Access to Trump Impeachment Trial”
'People, Poor Disabled People in Particular, Are Going to Die': Trump Takes Axe to Medicaid
The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a plan allowing states to convert federal Medicaid funding into block grants, a longstanding conservative goal that critics warn “'People, Poor Disabled People in Particular, Are Going to Die': Trump Takes Axe to Medicaid”