Trump may be the first former president to face criminal prosecution, but that fact in and of itself is a damning condemnation of the U.S. system of impunity.
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The GOP-controlled legislature's expulsion efforts came after thousands of Nashville students walked out of their classrooms to demand action on gun violence.
Before Trump's indictment took over the headlines, a study warned that "melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world's climate for centuries."
Instead of negotiating a first union contract as required by law, Starbucks has chosen to fire Alexis Rizzo, a union leader in Buffalo who worked for Starbucks for seven years.
The porn star said she is unafraid of facing the former president in court: "I've seen him naked. There's no way he could be scarier with his clothes on."
Trump's corruption is finally catching up to him. He was the first president to be impeached twice, and now he’s the first former president to be criminally indicted.
California is now the first state to penalize big oil companies for their rampant and unrestrained price gouging which has California drivers paying the highest gas prices in the country.
Medicare Advantage insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms, under the guise of scientific rigor, to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for an older patient's treatment.
Though Starbucks claims they are 'progressive,' there is mounting evidence that the company's anti-union efforts include a pattern of flagrant violations of federal labor law.
Unsurprisingly, book bans are increasingly orchestrated by fundamentalist groups like Moms for Liberty with a white Christian Nationalist spin.
The fires Spain is seeing, especially this early in the year, are once again proof of the climate emergency that humanity is living through.
Each attempt to ban a book by conservative groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore.
New payment rules by Medicare to curb fraud by "Medicare Advantage" insurance companies have been met by a flood of misleading dishonest lobbying to counter those rules.
As philosophers from Socrates to Jesus to Adam Smith have told us over and over: unregulated greed always ends up enriching the few while devastating the rest of society.
Cavanaugh has spent every day in session since an anti-trans bill targeting children arrived on the Senate floor introducing dozens of amendments to other pieces of legislation, slowing the Senate's business to a crawl.
On Twitter Tuesday, Sinema's opponent, Ruben Gallego wrote that "the SVB collapse is a direct result of Kyrsten Sinema's choice to side with big banks over everyday Arizonans."
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