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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned over the weekend that means tests and other limits on student debt cancellation that Biden administration officials are reportedly considering risk denying relief to a significant number of vulnerable people. “I don’t believe in a cutoff, especially for so many of the frontline workers who are d...
Amid global calls for focused diplomacy to end the Russian war on Ukraine, U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday introduced a measure that would give congressional authorization for President Joe Biden to intervene militarily if Russia uses biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons. Rep. Adam Kinzinger announced the Authorization for Use of Milita...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A federal judge in the US state of Virginia sentenced on Friday a former British national to life in prison after he confessed to being part of a Daesh/ISIS terror cell collectively referred to as the “Beatles.” Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty in September to being part of the hostage taking group that [&helli...
Indigenous and environmental activists on Friday condemned an Arizona agency’s approval of a key permit for a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon that opponents say threatens the land, water, wildlife—and Native Americans’ ancestral obligation to safeguard a place they’ve called home for centuries. The Arizona Republic reports...
ON FRIDAY, former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich urged voters in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District to cast their ballots for progressive firebrand Nina Turner, who is challenging Rep. Shontel Brown in the Democratic primary. Reich stated that “we have to elect” Turner “because we need people in Congress who will fig...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta received applause Thursday for the launch of a probe into whether the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries engaged in an “aggressive” decades-long campaign to deceptively convince the public “that recycling can solve the plastics crisis.” As part of its probe, Bonta also announc...
Buried in a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida this week is a provision that will eliminate Floridians’ ability to use ranked-choice voting to decide their elections—as people in at least two cities there have voted to do—making DeSantis the latest GOP leader to ban the broadly popular voting reform. Voting [...
WASHINGTON – Roughly $7 billion worth of military equipment transferred to the deposed Afghan government was left behind during the US’s chaotic withdrawal from the country in August, according to a report published on April 28. The Pentagon does not plan to conduct any operations to “retrieve or destroy” the equipment, accor...
WASHINGTON- Hundreds of students at a US high school outside of Chicago fasted in solidarity with their Muslim peers. The students at Maine East High School took part in the first Ramadan-inspired event in the school history on Wednesday in an effort to display diversity and inclusion. “I see her doing it every day, and […]
BRUSSELS – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said that the military alliance would welcome “with open arms” Finland and Sweden if they decide to apply for membership. Stoltenberg spoke at a joint news conference with the President of the European Parliament (EP) Roberta Mestola ahead of a meeting with the leaders of the EP’s political [&he...
