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Your Week in Review
'A Disgrace': Trump's DOJ Schedules Three More Federal Executions in Days Before Anti-Death Penalty Biden Takes Office
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"We all should be paying more attention to the killing spree that the
Justice Department is currently engaging in."
Trump Skips G20 Pandemic Preparedness Meeting as Covid-19 Cases Surpass 12 Million in US
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The president is not only missing from his post, but he's encouraging a
mutiny."
'Looks Like the Crazy Lady Has Logged On': Rep. Ilhan Omar Welcomes QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The incoming congresswoman attacked Omar for sparring with GOP Sen.
Kelly Loeffler, who faces a runoff election in Georgia this January.
'In Breaking the Senate, We Are Abandoning Our People': Watch AOC Excoriate McConnell on House Floor
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"He broke the Senate as there are thousands of people in Texas lined up
for food lines. He broke the Senate while hospitals no longer have beds
to house the sick."
Let Trump Off the Hook in the Name of Elusive Unity? Some Critics Say That Could Be a Big Mistake
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by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
One observer stressed that the Justice Department must "keep its options
open, and not prematurely foreclose on the possibility of criminal
investigations."
'The Real Looting in America Is the Walton Family': GAO Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages of Corporate Giants
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I say to the Walton family: Get off welfare," declared Sen. Bernie
Sanders in response to the government study he commissioned. "Pay your
workers a living wage—at least $15 an hour."
'About to Be Catapulted Off a Cliff': Study Shows 12 Million Set to Lose Jobless Benefits After Christmas
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by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"With no end to the pandemic in sight, and a cutoff of nearly all
federal unemployment benefits by year's end looming on the horizon,
inaction by Congress could mean that millions of American families will
enter the New Year with little or no means of support."
Greenpeace Releases Far-Reaching 'Just Recovery Agenda' to Tackle Interlocking Crises of Inequality, Racial Injustice, Covid-19, and Climate Chaos
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
We must "shift from an economy that is extractive and exploitative to
one that regenerates and repairs," the new report says.
With Pandemic as National Emergency, Biden Could Enact Medicare for All by Executive Action—But Will He?
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by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"I do not expect Joe Biden to use this power on Inauguration Day to
instantly turn the United States into a single-payer country. But
there's nothing in the law that would appear to prevent him from doing
it."
'It Should Belong to Humanity': Funded by Public, Promising Moderna Results Bolster Global Call for #PeoplesVaccine
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"It's time for companies to live up to their human rights
responsibilities and ensure the widest possible access to their
innovations."
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