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Trump's Controversial Sale of Arctic Drilling Rights Draws Almost No Interest
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (812+ words) Oil and gas companies " know that drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a losing proposition," said a critic of the sale. A controversial oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drew one big bid Friday from…...
Judge Blocks Trump Immigration Restrictions, Orders Restart of Asylum Processing
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (760+ words) The ruling strikes down Trump's freeze on processing for immigrants from 39 countries, which left many in legal limbo. A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a series of President Donald Trump's policies that he ruled were rooted…...
Amazon Is Using AI to Disempower Workers. The US Labor Movement Must Fight Back.
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (849+ words) Amazon is using AI in terrifying ways to disempower workers. We must fight back. Beginning June 7, the AFL-CIO quadrennial convention gathers in Minneapolis with the stated aim of organizing "in unity and clarity of purpose to empower working people." That…...
Families of Victims Who Died From Heat in Prison Fight to Prevent More Deaths
4+ hour, 7+ min ago (1702+ words) Over 200, 000 incarcerated people face deadly summer heat in California and Texas. The Central California Women's Facility, the nation's largest women's prison, is in Chowchilla, where temperatures reached past 90 degrees by the second week of May. The prison lacks air conditioning…...
House Votes to Roll Back Food Aid for Women and Children Amid Rising Food Prices
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (365+ words) The proposed cut is estimated to strip modest fruit and vegetable benefits from nearly 5. 4 million WIC participants. House Republicans, with the help of four Democrats, voted Thursday to approve legislation that would slash nutrition assistance for millions of young children…...
Adam Hamawy, Doctor Who Served in Gaza During Genocide, Wins New Jersey Primary
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (400+ words) Hamawy called for "health care, not bombs; to abolish ICE; and to unrig this economy." Adam Hamawy, a doctor who served in Gaza amid the genocide, won a New Jersey congressional primary on Tuesday, demonstrating the continued impact of the…...
Pentagon Hires Convicted January 6 Rioter to Counterterrorism Role
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (367+ words) The 24-year-old Trump loyalist was hired for a Defense Department role on "irregular warfare and counterterrorism." The Pentagon has hired a convicted January 6 rioter to work in a Defense Department office that manages highly classified military operations, The Washington Post…...
Comparing UFC "Claw" to the Eiffel Tower, Trump Says It May Forever Remain on White House Lawn
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (385+ words) We're building something in front of the White House that's quite attractive to a lot of people," Trump claimed. President Donald Trump has suggested that The Claw" " an enormous structure presently on the South Lawn of the White House, meant…...
Democrats Opposed to Tlaib's Resolution to Stop U. S. Joining War on Lebanon
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (460+ words) Israel's war on Lebanon is "quickly turning southern Lebanon into the "next Gaza," according to advocacy groups. Democrats are reportedly "not happy" that Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) is pushing for a vote on a war powers resolution to limit U. S. support…...
Trump Appoints Loyalist Bill Pulte to Top Intelligence Role, Despite Zero Experience for the Position
4+ day, 15+ min ago (595+ words) Trump's choice for acting Director of National Intelligence is also the subject of an open federal watchdog inquiry. President Donald Trump has named William "Bill" Pulte, the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), as the next acting…...