Gabby Giffords‘ former congressional district, Arizona’s 8th, borders Arizona’s 4th, the district currently represented by Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, who on Wednesday was censured and stripped of his committee assignments by the House of Representatives for posting a violent animated video depicting himself killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Giffords stopped …
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After two weeks of talks and a one-day extension, negotiators from almost 200 nations reached a climate agreement Saturday to ramp up efforts to address global climate change. But the United Nations secretary general warned that it is “not enough” to prevent climate disruptions. “The outcome of COP26 is a …
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A white supremacist being sued for his involvement in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., prepared for trial by watching Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Buzzfeed News reported on Thursday. The suit will determine if rally organizers can be held civilly responsible for the violence that occurred …
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WASHINGTON — On the day he took office, Donald Trump was the most ethically challenged and financially conflicted president in modern history. He refused to divest from his private business holdings, which meant that foreign dignitaries, corporate CEOs, and others who spent money at Trump’s hotels and resorts were, in …
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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott‘s plan to crack down on undocumented immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border has led to the arrests of hundreds of migrants who are now languishing in Texas prisons, often without being charged with a crime or assigned legal representation in violation of both their constitutional rights and …
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A Washington State prosecutor has found no crime — but much to criticize — in the September 2020 law enforcement raid that killed the anti-fascist activist Michael Forest Reinoehl in a hail of bullets. Rienoehl was a murder suspect wanted for the shooting death of right-wing agitator Aaron “Jay” Danielson …
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The fate of a healthy Democracy does not come down to a phone call with Dan Quayle. But, well, here we are. According to an upcoming book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, in the final days of Trump’s presidency, then-Vice President Mike Pence was strugglingto decide whether to honor …
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Less than 24 hours after Mississippi‘s Republican Gov. Tate Reeves tried to dismiss the threat that Covid-19 poses to children, an eighth-grader in the state died from complications due to the virus. “If you look at those individuals under the age of 12, what you find is that it is …
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Matt Gaetz‘s career in Congress, and life as a free man in America, has been in danger since it was revealed in March that the notably coiffed MAGA icon is under federal investigation for sex trafficking a minor. This danger became a little more acute a few months later when …
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It’s pride month, which means corporations are tripping over themselves to come out as allies of the LGBT community — even those corporations that are actively standing in the way of legislation that would expand protections for the members of that community. But a growing number of activists and lawmakers …
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