Why the idea of jobless benefits scares the conservative mind
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
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Trump still trying to destroy Obamacare — a crucial lifeline during the pandemic
Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it....
Filing by NY Prosecutors Indicates Broader Probe Into Alleged Trump Tax Fraud
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Anger With GOP Growing as $600 Unemployment Benefit Lapses
Americans angry with inaction from Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump on extending $600 a week unemployment benefits are accusing the...
A Majority Of People In The US Say The Federal Gov’t Should Do More About Climate
The US federal government should be doing a whole lot more to reduce the impacts of climate change. Those are the findings...
New Analysis Details How Electrifying the US Economy by 2035 Could Create 25 Million Green Jobs
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
Paul Krugman: ‘Cult of selfishness’ behind GOP’s destructive response to coronavirus pandemic
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reported a COVID-19 death count of more than 148,000 for the United States, which has...
‘For a Greener Future’: Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday introduced a bill to eliminate fossil fuel...
Trump’s Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers
Donald Trump and his cohort of propagandists at Fox News would have us believe the major cities of the United States have...
GOP COVID Relief Plan Includes Romney Bill to Slash Social Security and Medicare
Shortly after publicly ditching one attack on Social Security — the payroll tax cut — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed Thursday...
Trump family business profits from reelection bid amid pandemic
While President Trump faces bruising poll numbers amid the coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis, his family business continues making money off his...
McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Plan Sparks Alarm
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
‘Resounding’ Win for Public Health and Climate as Judge Blocks Trump Attempt to Gut Methane Restrictions
Green groups celebrated a “resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment” late Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from...
Mary Trump’s book reveals how Trump family gave rise to a ‘sociopath’
In a new book, Mary Trump — the president’s niece — describes Donald Trump as a “sociopath” who grew up...
‘Trump Death Clock’ Headed to DC
With Covid-19 pandemic surging in regions across the United States, progressive activists plan to spotlight the president’s “reckless and deadly”...
Minnesota Sues Exxon, Koch, American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon...
Sanders Unveils Amendment to Slash Bloated Pentagon Budget
With the Senate preparing to vote on an annual defense policy bill calling for $740.5 billion in military spending for...
The Trump Disaster Has Many Republican Women Bailing
It’s understandable that women, many of whom are overtaxed in this crisis with jobs, full-time child care and vulnerable elderly...
Republicans ramp up bid to rig election maps
A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions of dollars in funding from major US corporations such as CitiGroup and...
People of Ogoniland Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution
In 2011, a ground-breaking report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on oil pollution in Ogoniland highlighted the devastating impact of the...
The North Face Joins Civil Rights Boycott Urging Brands To Pull Facebook Ads
Outdoor clothing company The North Face became the highest-profile brand to join the #StopHateforProfit movement, which encourages large advertisers to...
Former Buffalo Officer Says ‘Cariol’s Law’ Could Stem Police Brutality
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cariol Horne, who was fired from the Buffalo Police Department in 2008 after stopping a fellow officer...
Student Movement Leads To 100% Renewable Energy Policy For Salt Lake City Schools
Ready for a dollop of good news in an otherwise bleak world? A movement begun by high school students in...
US billionaires have regained $565 billion in wealth since the pit of the crisis
The past three months have been financially painful for many Americans — but not for billionaires.US billionaires have become $565 billion richer...
Shady US Department Trump official used his position to get his son-in-law an EPA job
An inspector general report published Friday found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech at the U.S. Department of the Interior used...
Groups Challenge Financial Sector to ‘End Support for Fossil Fuels and Climate Chaos’
Ahead of oil and gas giant ExxonMobil’s virtual annual shareholders meeting Wednesday morning, scores of international climate, human rights, faith, and Indigenous...
New Trump public land rules allows hunters to kill bear cubs in their dens
The Trump administration is finalizing rules that will allow hunters in Alaska’s national preserves to shoot bears and wolves, and their cubs...
Billionaires’ Net Worth Rises During Pandemic As Millions Go Unemployed
U.S. billionaires’ wealth grew substantially over the last two months even as tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs,...
Big Oil Takes $1.9 Billion in Tax Breaks Intended for Small Businesses
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act...
Hundreds Of McDonald’s Workers Strike Over Company’s Response To Coronavirus
McDonald’s workers in 20 cities nationwide went on strike Wednesday, protesting against the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and...
Trump’s new coronavirus vaccine czar owns $10 million in stock options in company developing vaccine
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million...
Trump made the Secret Service ‘captive customers’ in transactions at his businesses
Last week in the Washington Post, journalists David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow reported that according to federal records the...
Essential Sanitary Workers Strike for Hazard Pay and PPE in New Orleans
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick...
Trump Wanted Less Testing Because Jared Kushner Said It Would Spook Wall Street
On March 6, President Donald Trump issued out the now-infamous proclamation about coronavirus testing, in order to ease rising fears...
Fossil Fuels Already Get Billions in Bailouts — They’re Called Subsidies
Recently, the Federal Reserve announced that it would be loosening its lending guidelines so that more corporations, even those with...
Trump Vows To ‘Terminate Health Care’ Despite The Increase In COVID-19 Deaths
The GOP has nothing with which to replace Obamacare, but that does not concern Trump. He just wants to destroy...
‘Criminal negligence’: Trump officials ignored company’s offer to make 7 million N95 masks per month
Progressives on Saturday denounced an “infuriating” report which detailed the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to take an American company...
Facebook’s Double Standard on Political Ads
The Lincoln Project, a super PAC run by Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, contacted Facebook to push the social...
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic
Fringe climate science deniers who spread online disinformation are now actively downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...
Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others
President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through...
Nobel laureates condemn harassment of environmental lawyer
Twenty-nine Nobel laureates have condemned alleged “judicial harassment” by Chevron and urged the release of a US environmental lawyer who...
Coal Industry Seeks Cuts to Payments for Miners With Black Lung Amid Pandemic
Some of the largest coal companies in the United States are using the coronavirus crisis to pressure Congress to slash...
How the Republicans are stealing everything for the 1 percent
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
Trump Labor Secretary Condemned for Efforts to Roll Back Unemployment Benefits, Paid Leave
From his guidance rolling back paid leave benefits to his attempt to limit who qualifies for beefed up unemployment insurance, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s...
Fox News Clan Is Preparing For Lawsuits Over Its Coronavirus Lies
Amid the mushrooming coronavirus crisis, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are girding for a pandemic of public-interest lawsuits over misinformation and conspiracy theories...
