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Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden greets guests during a campaign stop at the Water's Edge Nature Center on December 2, 2019 in Algona, Iowa.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Might I recommend Bernie Sanders: the climate candidate," responds Vermont senator's press secretary.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
In latest #BernieBlackout example, Sanders' deputy campaign manager notes it took major newspaper "three paragraphs to mention who is leading."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Normally the rich are moderately more subtle about rigging the system in their favor. They're scared."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When it came to tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump felt the nation's finances were firm enough to give up more than $1,500,000,000,000. When it's time to spend a fraction of that to help poor people eat, that's when the well has supposedly run dry."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A candidate for president should resist foreign interference in our elections, not demand it. If we are to keep faith with the Constitution and our Republic, President Trump must be held to account."


London company management firm Formations House was the subject of a massive leak that journalists began reporting on Wednesday.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's hard to overstate how notorious and suspicious the firm is."


"Since day one, Secretary Bernhardt has operated as though Interior was his own personal lobby shop by doling out favors for his former clients with impunity," said Jayson O’Neill, deputy director of Western Values Project

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Former lobbyist turned Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, says critic, probably assumed gift "to his former oil and gas client would slip by unnoticed."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Republicans are entirely unperturbed by Trump's use of his office to solicit foreign interference in the next election on his behalf."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As the decade comes to a close, the world's top climate scientists warned Tuesday that policymakers' continued failure to curb the warming of the planet could lead to a global temperature increase of 5° Celsius by the end of the century, putting the world "nowhere near on track" to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.


Young climate activists protest carbon markets at the UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn in 2012.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Now is not the time to offer an escape route to polluting Northern country governments and big oil."

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