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Activists of Sammilito Garments Sramik Federation (Combined Garments Workers Federation) march for fair wages and union rights for all Amazon supply chain workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 27, 2020. (Photo: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The corporation is trying to pacify workers with holiday bonuses of $150 to $300, even though "Jeff Bezos could pay a $105,000 bonus to every Amazon worker and still be as rich as he was at the start of the pandemic."

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A  medic loads a sick nursing home resident with Covid-19 symptoms into an ambulance on August 5, 2020 in Austin, Texas. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
Forty percent of all Covid-19 deaths in the United States have occurred in long-term care facilities.



Keith Williams photographed this Bohemian waxwing in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory on December 27, 2012. (Photo: Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The proposal—which the administration admits would likely lead to more avian deaths—would let energy and other companies off the hook for "incidentally" killing birds.



Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 2020. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/AFP via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As travelers ignored warnings, Thanksgiving marked the 24th consecutive day of more than 100,000 new daily Covid-19 cases in the United States.



The assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientists on Friday prompted immediate questions on what role the U.S. may have played in the killing.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If the U.S. was involved with this assassination, it will be further evidence on top of the already heaping pile that Trump, Pompeo, and the other war hawks will do everything in their power to prevent the Biden administration from succeeding at diplomacy with Iran."



A view of the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's chief nuclear scientist, was killed on November 27,2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This cowardice—with serious indications of Israeli role—shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators," said Iran's top diplomat.



Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), a primary negotiator for the Republican side, speaks at the U.S. Capitol on February 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We call on lawmakers to reject this insulting maneuver," said the president of the largest union of federal employees.



President Donald Trump participates in a Thanksgiving teleconference with members of the U.S. military at the White House in Washington, D.C. on November 26, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Constitutional law professor says it doesn't matter what Trump says if the Electoral College votes for Biden."



Food Bank for New York City hosts a food distribution pop-up in partnership with Alianza De Futbol during Hunger Action Month at New York Hall of Science on September 27, 2020 in Queens. (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Food Bank For New York City)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
With over 262,000 Americans killed by Covid-19, millions jobless and at risk of soon losing unemployment aid, and families and friends warned against spending Thanksgiving together because of the dangers of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, new polling results revealed Thursday that people with low incomes agree upon a range of policy solutions to poverty and hunger.



Palestinian prisoner Maher Al-Akhras and his daughter after he was released by Israeli authorities on November 26, 2020. (Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The Palestinian father of six was released after refusing all food and drink to protest Israel's administrative detention policy.


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In the midst of this global pandemic, instead of focusing on how they can be supportive of Indigenous communities, the Trump administration continues to disrespect and disregard sacred land to our people. (Photo: USFWS/Flickr cc)

by Bernadette Demientieff
We are mothers and grandmothers. And we are not asking for anything but the ability to live and thrive off the land that the Creator blessed us with.



Ms. Hathloul was produced in court on Wednesday. She has been imprisoned for two years, during which she was allegedly tortured and subjected to sexual abuse. (Photo: Loujain al-Hathloul)

by Juan Cole
There is nothing in Islam that forbids women to drive, and all the 900 million Muslim women have all along driven except in Saudi Arabia.



UNITE HERE, which represents 300,000 union workers in hotels, casinos, and food service, mobilized members to knock on nearly 600,000 people’s doors in North and West Philadelphia. (Photo: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Luis Feliz Leon
The stage is set for a power struggle over what direction the incoming Biden Administration should take, between the party's left flank seeking a transformative agenda and moderates pining for a "return to normal" after Trump.



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks to members of the media at the Hart Senate Office Building on September 9, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

by Robert Reich
To them I ask: How much death and suffering must the American people endure before you act?



Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams of Georgia addressed supporters at an election watch party on Nov. 6, 2018. (Photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

by Ari Paul
NPR, in this instance, trivialized the outcry against not just this instance of voter suppression, but the context of historic voter disenfranchisement in the South.




by Sam Pizzigati
The nation's woefully inadequate response to the pandemic is jeopardizing millions of retirement futures.


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