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Your Week in Review


U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as senior adviser Stephen Miller (C) listens during a round-table discussion on border security and safe communities with state, local, and community leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 11, 2019. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
According to the Democratic nominee, "This agenda is designed to do one thing only: divide our communities with cheap, xenophobic rhetoric, and demonize those seeking to make legitimate asylum claims."



President Donald Trump talks to members of the media outside of the White House on October 27, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
But despite everything, Christmas may be a little bit early this year.



Record early voting—much of it by mail—has caused serious delays in the United States Postal Service. (Photo: Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Large areas of the country will be subjected to the measures, which include expedited handling, extra deliveries, and special pickups.


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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks with a voter near a polling station during the New York primaries on June 23, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"We're not good enough right now," the New York Democrat says of her party, and unless the material lives of working-class people are improved the nation's dangerous slide to the right will continue.



People receive a prepared meal at the Thessalonica Christian Church during a distribution on October 22, 2020 in New York City.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The GDP figures will come as tens of millions of Americans face "economic calamity" due to Republican lawmakers' persistent refusal to approve additional coronavirus relief.



Count every vote

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"An election is not a reality show with a big reveal at the end," said FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub.



Waterfall on Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Destructive development in the country's largest national forest—such as extractive logging and expansive road building—will be catastrophic for generations to come," warned Greenpeace.



An aerial photograph taken on February 24, 2014 depicts the destruction of an Indonesian rainforest—the habitat of endangered orangutans, tigers, and other animal as well as plant species—cleared to make way for a palm oil plantation on Borneo Island. (Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Imagine a world in which projects can only raise capital when they have demonstrated that they will contribute meaningfully and positively to restoring the planet's bounty and a safe climate for all. That's the future this report envisions and builds toward."



Kavanaugh Supreme Court Wisconsin

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Kavanaugh is announcing to the world that if it will help Trump win he will join a decision to not count votes."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Momentum is building among voters who are prepared to call for election officials to protect the results of the 2020 elections next week, as they anticipate an illegitimate challenge to the results by President Donald Trump.


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