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Senate Approves $95B Package With $17B in Unconditional Military Aid for Israel

With the support of nearly 80% of the chamber’s lawmakers, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved a sprawling foreign aid package that includes $17...

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Summer Lee Wins Primary Against Opponent Backed by Billionaire GOP Megadonor

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a member of the progressive “Squad,” won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District on Tuesday,...

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Sanders to Push Amendment Removing Military Funding for Israel in Aid Package

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he would put forth an amendment to remove offensive military funding for Israel from a House-passed aid...

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Global Military Spending Reached an All-Time High Last Year at $2.4 Trillion

New research published Monday shows that global military spending increased in 2023 for the ninth consecutive year, surging to $2.4 trillion as...

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Edward Snowden Is Among Those Sounding the Alarm Over Spying Expansion

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is among the privacy advocates sounding the alarm over a major expansion of mass surveillance that the U.S. House...

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House Dems Team Up With GOP to Expand Warrantless Spying on Americans

The U.S. House on Friday passed legislation to expand a major mass spying authority after voting down a bipartisan push to attach a search warrant...

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House Poised to Vote on Mass Spying Authority Critics Call “Patriot Act 2.0”

The U.S. House is expected to vote Friday on legislation to reauthorize a surveillance authority that intelligence agencies have heavily abused to...

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Global Outcry as Ecuador Police Raid Mexican Embassy in Quito to Seize Former VP

The Biden administration on Sunday faced calls to demand the immediate release of Ecuador’s former vice president after Ecuadorian police stormed...

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DC-Based Aid Group Pauses Gaza Operations After Israeli Strike Kills 7 Workers

World Central Kitchen said Tuesday that a targeted Israeli airstrike killed seven members of its aid team in Gaza as they left a warehouse in the city...

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"This is unforgivable": Israeli airstrike kills 7 World Central Kitchen workers

World Central Kitchen said Tuesday that a targeted Israeli airstrike killed seven members of its aid team in Gaza as they left a warehouse in the...

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Israeli Newspaper Haaretz Details Israeli Forces’ Use of “Kill Zones” in Gaza

Israel’s military says it has killed around 9,000 militants in Gaza since October 7 — and adamantly denies targeting civilians. But new reporting...

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Report: Deliberate Ecocide a Key Element of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza

The widespread destruction Israel’s military has inflicted on Gaza’s farmland and agricultural infrastructure amounts to a “deliberate act of...

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Sanders Says State Department’s Position on Israel “Makes a Mockery of US Law”

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday said the U.S. State Department’s determination that Israel is not violating international law with its assault on the...

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U.K. court puts Julian Assange extradition on hold until U.S. provides assurances

The United Kingdom's High Court ruled Tuesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot immediately be extradited to the United States and gave...

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Jared Kushner touts valuable “waterfront property” in Gaza while urging Israel to “clean it up”

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump, said in a recent interview that if he were in...

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Canadian Parliament Resolution Calls for Ending Arms Exports to Israel

Canada’s Parliament on Monday approved a nonbinding resolution calling on the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to cut off the country’s...

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Warren Says Trump Will “Try to Ban Abortion Nationwide” If He Regains Power

Sen. Elizabeth Warren warned Sunday that Donald Trump will aggressively pursue a national abortion ban if elected to another term after the former...

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IDF Reportedly Kills 20, Injures Over 150 More Waiting for Aid in Northern Gaza

Gaza health officials said Thursday that Israeli forces killed at least 20 people and injured over 150 more as they waited for humanitarian aid in the...

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Sanders Introduces Bill to Establish 32-Hour Workweek in US With No Loss of Pay

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday introduced legislation that would establish a 32-hour workweek in the U.S. with no loss of pay, a change the Vermont...

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Washington Primary’s “Uncommitted” Vote Surpasses Organizers’ Expectations

More than 48,000 voters and counting marked “uncommitted delegates” on their ballots in Washington state’s Democratic presidential primary on...

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Senators to Biden: US Law Forbids Arming Israel If It Keeps Blocking Aid to Gaza

A group of senators said Tuesday that under U.S. law, the Biden administration must cut off American military assistance to Israel unless the...

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Biden Plan for Temporary Humanitarian Aid Port in Gaza Slammed as PR Stunt

President Joe Biden is expected to announce during his State of the Union address Thursday night that the U.S. military will construct a temporary...

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"Finish the problem": Trump's answer on Gaza shows he's "even worse" than Biden on Israel

Shortly before winning nearly every GOP primary on Super Tuesday and all but locking up the 2024 Republican nomination, former President Donald Trump...

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Sanders: The US Has Leverage to End the Gaza Crisis Because It Funds the War

Flanked by photos of hungry children and destroyed buildings, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a speech Wednesday that the Biden administration must...

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Critics Say GOP’s Budget Blueprint Is a Thinly Veiled Ploy to Slash Key Programs

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a budget blueprint for next fiscal year that, while light on specifics, expresses the party’s support for...

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Head of UNRWA Says Netanyahu and Allies Aim to Deliberately Destroy Aid Agency

The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees told the U.N. General Assembly on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

05.03.2024 2

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Casar Calls for Probe of Election Rigging in Wake of US-Backed Coup in Pakistan

Pakistani lawmakers on Sunday elected Shehbaz Sharif to serve a second term as the country’s prime minister following elections last month that were...

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Just 2 US Lawmakers Sign International Statement Demanding Israel Arms Embargo

More than 200 lawmakers from 13 countries issued a joint statement Friday expressing opposition to their nations’ weapons exports to Israel and...

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Biden EPA Exempts Gas-Fired Power Plants From New Regulations

The youth-led Sunrise Movement on Friday panned the Biden administration’s decision to delay a regulatory crackdown on existing gas-fired power...

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US blocks UN Security Council statement condemning IDF killing of Gazans seeking aid

The United States on Thursday unilaterally blocked a United Nations Security Council statement that would have expressed "deep concern" over the...

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US Blocks Security Council Statement Blaming IDF for Killing Gazans Seeking Aid

The United States on Thursday unilaterally blocked a United Nations Security Council statement that would have expressed “deep concern” over the...

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Biden Claims Temporary Ceasefire Deal Is “Close” and Could Take Effect Next Week

U.S. President Joe Biden’s claim Monday that a temporary cease-fire deal is “close” and could take effect as soon as next week reportedly took...

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Biden DOJ Indicts Journalist Who Leaked Unaired Tucker Carlson and Ye Footage

A Florida journalist who accessed and made public unaired video footage of an interview that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson conducted with the...

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U.S. plays defense for Israel at International Court of Justice

An attorney from the U.S. State Department told the International Court of Justice on Wednesday that it should not put its weight behind global calls...

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"I think we should kill 'em all," GOP Rep. Andy Ogles says of Palestinians in Gaza

Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee said Tuesday that "we should kill 'em all" after an activist pressed him to respond to atrocities that the...

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Rafah Residents Call Latest Israeli Attacks “One of Their Worst Nights Yet”

Israeli airstrikes on the severely overcrowded Gaza city of Rafah on Thursday destroyed a mosque and several houses as the leaders of aid groups and...

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UN: Child Deaths in Gaza Set to Surge If Israel’s War and Blockade Continue

With malnutrition and infectious diseases spreading rapidly, United Nations officials warned Monday that child deaths in the Gaza Strip are set to...

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Palestine Lawyer at ICJ Says US Continues to Shield Israel From Accountability

An attorney representing Palestine at the United Nations’ highest court called out the U.S. on Monday for routinely defending Israel’s violations...

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Power Outage at Hospital IDF Stormed Kills at Least 5 Oxygen-Dependent Patients

Several oxygen-dependent patients at southern Gaza’s largest hospital died Friday due to a power outage at the facility, which Israeli forces raided...

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IDF Storms Nasser Hospital, Killing at Least 1 and Injuring Many More

Israeli forces on Thursday stormed the largest hospital in southern Gaza, ignoring warnings from United Nations officials, humanitarian groups, and...

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IDF Sets Its Sights on Southern Gaza Hospital Full of Sheltering Civilians

Israeli troops further closed in on the largest hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Wednesday, ordering thousands of Palestinians...

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Judge Dismisses Big Pharma Lawsuit Challenging Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that the pharmaceutical industry’s powerful trade group and allied organizations filed in an attempt...

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IDF Kills at Least 67 Palestinians in Rafah While Extricating 2 Hostages

Israeli forces raided an apartment building in the besieged and overcrowded Gaza city of Rafah early Monday and rescued two hostages in an operation...

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IDF rescues two hostages while killing dozens of Palestinians in Rafah

Israeli forces raided an apartment building in the besieged and overcrowded Gaza city of Rafah early Monday and rescued two hostages in an operation...

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Critics Say Biden’s Mild Criticism of Israel’s War on Gaza Rings Hollow

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he believes Israel’s assault on Gaza has been “over the top” but did not indicate any substantive changes...

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Iraq Condemns US for Drone Assassination of Militia Group Commander

A deadly U.S. drone strike in Baghdad late Wednesday drew swift criticism from Iraqi officials and foreign policy analysts, who warned that the Biden...

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"Hell no": Trump allies' plan to privatize Medicare draws alarm and outrage

A right-wing coalition that's been laying the policy groundwork for another Trump presidency has developed a plan to further privatize Medicare by...

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Right-Wing Coalition Plans to Further Privatize Medicare Under Trump

A right-wing coalition that’s been laying the policy groundwork for another Trump presidency has developed a plan to further privatize Medicare by...

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Sanders Calls Out US Hypocrisy on Human Rights as Senators Unveil Aid Bill

Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that the U.S. must stop fueling the Netanyahu government’s assault on the Gaza Strip as senators unveiled...

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After Belgium Refused to Cut Off UNRWA Funding Israel Bombed Its Gaza Aid Office

Belgian officials expressed outrage Thursday after Israeli forces reportedly bombed the office building of the Belgian Agency for Development...

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