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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."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"The president is not only missing from his post, but he's encouraging a mutiny."


Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) questions witnesses during a U.S. House Foreign Affairs' Committee's Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill May 16, 2019. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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.


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) addressed long-delayed relief for Americans from the coronavirus pandemic in a floor speech on Friday. (Photo: YouTube/RepAOC)

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."


Protesters with a placard demanding the jailing of President Donald Trump during the Women's March in Manhattan on January 18, 2020. (Photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis/Getty Images)

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."


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) delivers an address on threats to American democracy at George Washington University on September 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Sanders cited "the unprecedented and dangerous moment we are in right now" given U.S. President Donald Trump's "unique threats to our democracy." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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."


People receive food at Thessalonica Christian Church during a distribution on October 17, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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."



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.


President-elect Joe Biden delivers a remarks on the economic recovery in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday, November 16, 2020. (Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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."


Moderna, a U.S. biotech firm, announced on November 16, 2020 that its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was almost 95% effective. (Photo illustration: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)

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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