Jon Queally, staff writer
"Horrible accidents happen in the context of war so maybe we just shouldn't be at war with Iran."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Climate activists on Thursday announced a new campaign that aims to send a message to Wall Street: "Stop financing fossil fuels and deforestation and start respecting human rights and Indigenous sovereignty."
Julia Conley, staff writer
With about two-thirds of Puerto Rico without power and hundreds of thousands of people without running water following a 6.4-magnitude earthquake this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined calls Thursday for the Trump administration to release $18 billion in disaster aid to the island more than two years after the money was appropriated.
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Lindsay Koshgarian
"We will not allow a new war to break out," writes Koshgarian. "Call your members of Congress and tell them to immediately pass legislation revoking the president’s blanket war authority and reclaiming war powers for Congress alone." (Image: Common Dreams / CC BY 3.0)
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
The NYC Bar's letter represents the first time it or any comparable association has called for an investigation into a sitting attorney general.
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Eoin Higgins, staff writer
City is latest in the country to offer publicly-funded transportation for residents and visitors.
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Jake Johnson, staff writer
Journalists immediately wondered whether Trump just revealed the supposed "imminent" threat that top officials claimed for days was too sensitive to make public.
Julia Conley, staff writer
A new survey shed new light on the wide gulf between the richest Americans and low-income families, particularly in terms of how the two groups view their own life experiences and satisfaction.
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Ralph Nader
A child participant seen during the rally. Dozens of protesters take part in a rally called "Swarm the Senate" in the Hart Senate Office Building urging action to "impeach, remove, indict and jail" President Trump. (Photo: Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A new study that suggests raising the minimum wage could prevent thousands of suicide deaths in the United States sparked fresh calls for relief from federal lawmakers and cast a spotlight on Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's legislative graveyard.
Dr. Assal Rad
Though on its surface the current conflict is between Iran and the United States, a war would reverberate through the world. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"House Democrats should change plans: issue him a subpoena themselves."
Tom Engelhardt
After more than 18 years of war with neither end nor victory in sight, says Tom Engelhardt, absolute failure is the "new success" as Pentagon budgets and arms makers' profits soar while the military-industrial complex enjoys the bounty of endless conflict and blood further than the eye can see. (Photo: Jeff Owens / EyeEm / iStock via Getty Images)
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