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Your Week in Review
'A Message That Would Fit Just Fine in a Paul Ryan Speech': Biden Pilloried for Ad Celebrating Private Health Insurance Industry
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This web ad from Joe Biden attempts to pit working people and
generations against one another to perpetuate a broken healthcare system
that values health insurance CEOs' paychecks over people's lives."
'This Is Not Normal': Record-Smashing European Heat Wave Sparks Demands to Combat Climate Emergency
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Following days of warnings from meteorologists, temperatures soared to
historic highs throughout Western Europe Thursday, eliciting impassioned
demands for governments to take more ambitious action to combat the
climate crisis.
"He Might've Stayed a Minute": Coal Miners With Black Lung Slam McConnell for Brushing Them Off in Healthcare Meeting
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It was a worthless trip, that's the way I feel," said one of the 120
coal miners who traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Republican
leader
Scientists Urge UN to Add Environmental Destruction to Geneva Conventions' List of War Crimes
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a letter to the editor published Tuesday by the journal Nature , two
dozen scientists from around the world urged the United Nations'
International Law Commission to adopt a Fifth Geneva Convention that
creates protections for the environment in armed conflicts.
'Everyone Should Mobilize': Climate Leaders Urge Massive Turnout for Global Climate Strikes
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Our house is on fire—let's act like it," says a call-to-action for
September 20th and 27th strikes.
'This Is the Beginning': New Study Warns Climate Crisis May Have Been Pivotal in Rise of Drug-Resistant Superbug
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A new analysis warns that "global warming may have played a pivotal
role" in the recent rise of a multidrug-resistant fungal superbug,
sparking questions and concerns about the emerging public health threats
of the human-caused climate crisis.
'Unconscionable': Trump USDA Proposes New Rule to Strip Food Stamps From Over 3 Million Americans
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The proposal, said Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, would "take food away
from families, prevent children from getting school meals, and make it
harder for states to administer food assistance."
'Why Is He So Afraid?': Congress Urged to Fight Back Against Trump Lawsuit to Keep Tax Returns Hidden
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This is yet another desperate attempt by Donald Trump to block
congressional oversight and obscure the truth from the American people
about his foreign entanglements and conflicts of interest."
Boris Johnson—Denounced as "Liar, Racist, and Donald Trump's Poodle"—Elected by Tory Party to Become New UK Prime Minister
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Around 100,000 Tory Party members have inflicted on us a prime minister
with a record of bigotry, racism, lying, and incompetence, Boris
Johnson," declared Green Party MP Caroline Lucas. "This is not
democracy."
'They Came to the Wrong Community': Neighbors Form Human Chain to Stop ICE From Arresting Longtime Nashville Resident
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Two ICE agents who attempted to detain a man in Nashville's Hermitage
neighborhood early on Monday morning "came to the wrong community,"
according to one of the neighbors who helped form a human chain to
prevent the arrest.
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