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Suspect In LA Black Church Arson Arrested A man arrested in connection with the Louisiana black church fires is a law enforcement official's son. CNN: "A man arrested in connection with fires at three historically black Louisiana churches is a law enforcement...
Medicare For All Is The Care Every Family Needs
My name is Dr. Laura Kaplan-Weisman, and I am a family physician from Maryland. I provide primary care to people of all ages and all walks of life, and I feel strongly that what our country needs now is universal health care. That’s why I traveled to Washington to...
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Miller Seeks To Cement Control Over Immigration Policy Before Nielsen's abrupt resignation, hardline Trump adviser Stephen Miller was reportedly handed total control of border policy. Insider: "US border and immigration policy is now said to be under the control of...
The Far Right Shows Its Hand In Idaho's Health Care Impasse
After years of the Idaho legislature’s failure to enact Medicaid expansion, leaving 70,000 in the state without care, the citizens of Idaho took action. Last year, Idaho’s outgoing governor Butch Otter came out with a sudden call for the passage of Medicaid expansion,...
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With DHS Purge, Harsher Immigration Plan Emerges Trump's hardline new border plan. Axios: "President Trump has directed top officials to execute the most aggressive changes in immigration policy since his inauguration, sources tell Axios. Some officials consider the...
How Unapologetic Progressives Won Big in Chicago
On a Wednesday evening in February, Marta Popadiak, the organizing director for People’s Lobby and Reclaim Chicago, was busy making phone calls to voters in Chicago’s 33rd ward for left-wing Chicago City Council candidate Rossana Rodriguez. With each call, she asked...
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DHS Chief Nielsen Fired By Tweet Homeland Security chief Nielsen is out. Politico: "Kirstjen Nielsen will leave her post as secretary of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump announced on Sunday, highlighting the administration's inner turmoil over rising levels...
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HUD's Carson Questioned About Housing Cuts Bipartisan Disapproval Over Trump Administration's Housing Program Cuts. NPR: "Lawmakers told Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson Wednesday that there's little chance Congress will accept the Trump...
The Death Penalty Is Getting Crueler
For years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling...
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Dems Demand Trump's Tax Returns House Democrat demands six years of Trump tax returns from I.R.S.. NYT: "The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, using a little-known provision in the federal tax code, formally requested on Wednesday that the I.R.S. hand...
