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Nurses protest for PPE outside White House: 'You throw us to the wolves'
Nurses protested outside the White House on Thursday over a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Nurses with the union National Nurses United stood outside the White House alongside pairs of empty shoes lined up to represent the nurses who died due to “insufficient PPE” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Library of Congress is launching an open-source archive of hip-hop samples dating back more than a century
Citizen DJ is the brainchild of Brian Foo, a 2020 Innovator-in-Residence Program at the U.S. Library of Congress.
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As Obama prepares to join campaign, Trump moves to discredit Russia probe started under his watch
A newly released memo shows that Robert Mueller was given wide latitude to investigate Michael Flynn, whose prosecution the Justice Department is attempting to drop.
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Deepfakes' threat to 2020 US election isn't what you'd think
And if a devastating deepfake does emerge, it'll hit at the last moment.
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Trump dismantles environmental protections under cover of coronavirus
The Trump administration is diligently weakening US environment protections even amid a global pandemic, continuing its rollback as the November election approaches. During the Covid-19 lockdown, US federal agencies have eased fuel-efficiency standards for new cars; frozen rules for soot air pollution; proposed to drop review requirements for liquefied natural gas terminals; continued to lease public property to oil and gas companies; sought to speed up permitting for offshore fish farms;
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Eight coronavirus vaccines being worked on and could be available by 'late fall", Fauci says
At least eight candidates for a coronavirus vaccine are in the clinical development stage, and some could be ready as early as the “late fall”, Anthony Fauci, the US’ top infectious disease expert, has told senators. “The [National Institutes of Health] has been collaborating with a number of pharmaceutical companies at various stages of development,” Mr Fauci said, in testimony on Tuesday.
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Congress May Hand Bill Barr the Keys to Your Online Life
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, our unaccountable surveillance state is set to expand.
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E.P.A. Opts Against Limits on Water Contaminant Tied to Fetal Damage
A new E.P.A. policy on perchlorate, which is used in rocket fuel, would revoke a 2011 finding that the chemical should be regulated.
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Republican victory in California special election undercuts Trump's unfounded claims about mail-in voting
As President Donald Trump held forth in the Cabinet Room on Wednesday railing against voting by mail, the Republican candidate in a hotly contested special election in California was being declared the winner after voting was conducted almost entirely by mail.
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With Fox News' help, Republicans are continuing to lie and fearmonger about a Green New Deal
A recent New York Times article detailed how Republicans are attacking the Green New Deal as a political response to coronavirus
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Trump Said He's Taking Hydroxychloroquine To Try To Prevent COVID-19 In Spite Of An FDA Warning
“I happen to be taking it," said the president to a stunned audience on Monday.
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Joe Biden finally makes up nickname for Trump: ‘President Tweety’
Speaking about Trump’s vocal desire to reopen the country, Biden asked, “How are we supposed to do that if you’re sitting on the money small businesses need? Stop tweeting about it, get the money out to Main Street.”
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Trump is refusing to unveil Obama's portrait at the White House, breaking a 40-year tradition
Trump and Obama have perhaps the most contentious relationship of any current and former presidents in modern US history.
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The CIA’s Murderous Practices, Disinformation Campaigns, and Interference in Other Countries Still Shape the World Order and U.S. Politics
No understanding of international or domestic politics is possible without a factual grasp of the CIA’s purpose.
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Jared Kushner had one job: Solve America's supply crisis. He helped private companies instead.
Project Airbridge could still be revived “if urgent needs arise.”
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Judge Knocks Down Law Requiring Fine Payment Before Voting In Florida Felons Case
A federal judge ruled Sunday that a Florida law requiring people with felony convictions to pay off all their court...
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Trump's COVID-19 lies echo Soviet leaders. It's time for an American "perestroika."
The United States could likely learn a great deal from the Soviet Union’s attempted program of serious reconstruction.
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Trump's New Intelligence Chief Spells Trouble
AMID THE CONSTANT onslaught of troubling headlines that is daily life under the Trump administration, it’s hard to know what’s more dangerous: The confirmation of John Ratcliffe to be the director of national intelligence—or what comes after it? Perhaps the clearest sign that three-term Texas congressman Ratcliffe is manifestly unqualified to serve as the nation’s director of national intelligence isn’t the fact that he embellished his resume, nor that a only minority of the US Senate would vote to confirm him, nor that the first time he was floated for the post last summer he was so soundly rejected that he withdrew almost immediately.
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Proposed bill would ban microtargeting of political advertisements
Just because ads can be targeted to individuals doesn't mean they should be.
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Trump threatens to shut down social-media platforms after Twitter put a fact-check warning on his false tweets
President Donald Trump has threatened to close down social-media platforms that he argues censor conservative voices after Twitter on Tuesday tagged some of his messages with a fact-check warning. "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices," Trump tweeted Wednesday. "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016."
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