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September 28, 2023

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'It Will Be a Catastrophe': Student Loan Payments to Resume Even If GOP Shuts Down Government

"Forty million people are being thrown to the wolves," warned one advocacy group.

Jake Johnson

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UN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor-a 'Contemporary Form of Slavery'

One of the U.N. experts who compiled the report after visiting the U.S. earlier this year said its findings "point to the critical need for comprehensive reform."

Brett Wilkins

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'We Are Fed Up': Youth Climate Activists Occupy McCarthy Office to Protest Shutdown Effort

"Young people are here because Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans are playing political games with our lives. We're over this bullshit."

Jake Johnson

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'A Dangerous Nuclear Crisis': Greenpeace Warns Zaporizhzhia Insufficiently Monitored

A new report found that Russian troops were likely "using the plant as a shield" in violation of the safety principles laid out by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Olivia Rosane

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1.4 Million Wealthy Americans Are Evading Nearly $66 Billion in Federal Taxes

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden called on the IRS to further strengthen tax dodging enforcement, including criminal prosecution referrals.

Julia Conley

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Billionaires Have Gotten $2.2 Trillion Richer Since Trump-GOP Tax Cuts: Analysis

"The staggering runup of billionaire wealth since the passage of the Trump-GOP tax law is a sure indicator of who that law was meant to serve."

Jake Johnson

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Vietnam Denounced for Imprisoning 'Dedicated and Fearless Climate Defender'

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The Direct Action Wing of the US Climate Movement Is Evolving―and That's a Good Thing

"Are you fucking serious?" one banker asked me, before trying to shoulder his way past us again. When he realized that we were, in fact, serious, he left to try and find another way into work.

Alec Connon

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A Global Call for Peace in Ukraine Emerges at UN General Assembly

"We want peace, in our country, in Ukraine, in Europe, in the world. Peace and the security that comes with it.," said Hungary President Katalin Novak. "There is no alternative to peace."

Medea Benjamin,Nicolas J.S. Davies

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A Literal School-to-Prison Pipeline

The reshaping of the Kansas Technical Institute's campus into an actual prison a perspective on what it means when, over time, whole populations are functionally criminalized.

Tamar Sarai

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