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CEO Pay Is Up 50 Percent Since 2019 Compared to 0.9 Percent for Workers

A new Oxfam analysis also warns that the global working class faces a new threat in the form of Trump's tariff regime.

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Jake Johnson

How to Fight Fascism in a Captured State

A union exists whenever a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn't alone, says Shane Burley.

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Kelly Hayes

How International Students Got Swept Up in Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown

Slammed with lawsuits, the administration paused its student visa revocations, but students still aren't in the clear.

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Eleanor J. Bader

Trump Quietly Took Away a Living Wage From Thousands of Federal Workers

Companies can now illegally pay federal contractors less than the current minimum wage and face no consequences.

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Michael Arria

New EPA Regulatory Changes on PFAS Spark Public Health Concerns

The plans include elements that appear aimed at reversing or weakening policies pursued by the Biden administration.

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Shannon Kelleher

Van Hollen: El Salvador Vice President Says US Paying to Imprison Abrego Garcia

Trump admitted in an interview on Tuesday that he could get the Maryland father back with a single phone call.

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Sharon Zhang

Judge Blocks Nevada Parental Notification Law for Minors Seeking Abortions

The law “cannot create a healthy home environment where one doesn't already exist,” an abortion advocacy group noted.

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Chris Walker

Watchdog Urges Congress to Investigate Trump’s Multimillion-Dollar Crypto Scheme

Not only is Trump a major crypto dealer — he is also the industry's top policy maker, The New York Times noted.

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Jake Johnson

Is the DOGE Playbook Going Global?

Tech writer and critic Paris Marx discusses how Elon Musk is inspiring right-wing efforts abroad.

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Amy Goodman

Trump Blames Biden After Report Shows Economy Shrank in First 3 Months of 2025

The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025 as President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs — the first time the country’s economy...

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Chris Walker

Poll: Majority of Voters View Trump as “Dictator” Who Threatens Democratic Norms

New polling demonstrates that most voters see President Donald Trump as a dangerous politician and view his leadership style as dictatorial. In...

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Chris Walker

Activist Mohsen Mahdawi Freed From Prison After Judge Orders His Release

Palestinian Columbia University student activist Mohsen Mahdawi was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after a Vermont judge ordered his...

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Sharon Zhang

UN Experts: Trump Admin’s Deportations to El Salvador Violate International Law

The group of 20 human rights experts signed the statement demanding an end to the “unlawful” deportations.

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Sharon Zhang

Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims Remain Uncompensated. Tlaib Aims to Change That.

Today marks 50 years since the end of the U.S. War in Vietnam, which killed an estimated 3.3 million Vietnamese people, hundreds of thousands of...

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Marjorie Cohn

Trump HHS Restores Title X Funds to 2 Anti-Abortion States Despite Court Rulings

The Trump administration quietly restored federal family planning money to Tennessee and Oklahoma, despite court rulings that the states weren’t...

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Rachana Pradhan

How Trump 2.0 Overturned Years of Climate Progress in 100 Days

This article by Earth.Org is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Trump’s current approval rating is...

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Martina Burtscher

Italy Shows How Amazon Can Be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down Its Distribution

Amazon is huge and powerful, but Italian workers have shown it can be forced to negotiate. Could US workers do the same?

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Laura Montanari

World’s Top 111 Corporations Have Caused $28T in Climate Damages, Study Finds

The world’s top corporations have caused $28 trillion in damages related to the climate crisis, a new study seeking to help attribute climate costs...

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Sharon Zhang

Pentagon Swears Secrecy on Yemen War After Senators Press Admin on Civilian Harm

The Trump administration says it will not be disclosing details on its war in Yemen as Democrats are pressing officials to answer to concerns over...

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Sharon Zhang

Trump White House Dismisses All Contributors to National Climate Assessment

The Trump administration abruptly announced this week that it is dismissing all contributors and coauthors for the National Climate Assessment, an...

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Chris Walker

As Trump Marks 100 Days, Organizers Plan Massive May 1 Protests Against Admin

Organizers across the United States are planning a massive day of May Day protests against the Trump administration. Organizers say that they have...

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Amy Goodman

How Trump’s 100 Days Built Off the Far Right Blueprint of Project 2025

“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Donald Trump said during last September’s presidential debate. “I haven’t read it. I don’t want...

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Schuyler Mitchell

Canada’s Liberal Party Will Face Down Trump. But Will It Address Inequality?

Canada entered the 2025 federal election with a Liberal minority government and it emerged from the 2025 federal election with a Liberal minority...

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Nora Loreto

Trial Begins for Three Former Memphis Cops Accused of Killing Tyre Nichols

More than two years after Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained during a brutal beating after a traffic stop, three former Memphis, Tennessee,...

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Christina Carrega

Amazon Bends to Trump, Denies It Planned to Post US Tariff Costs on Website

Online retail behemoth Amazon pushed back against reporting from Punchbowl News on Tuesday that the company was planning to list tariff costs next...

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Chris Walker

Report: 2 DOGE Staffers Have Access to Network Holding US Nuclear Secrets

Two members of the Trump administration’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) have been granted unusual access to classified...

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Chris Walker

7 in 10 Democrats Say US Should Restrict Aid to Israel, Poll Finds

Democratic voters overwhelmingly say that the U.S. should restrict military assistance to Israel until it stops its assault on civilians in Gaza...

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Sharon Zhang

Harvard Quietly Capitulates to Trump, Guts DEI Office and Affinity Events

Although Harvard University has been celebrated for resisting the Trump administration — including suing over threats to withhold $2.2 billion in...

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Zane Mcneill

Trump’s First Admin Created Diversity Grants. The Second Has Taken Them Away.

Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory. Tovar,...

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Brett Kelman

Trump’s Pick to Head CBP Accused of Participating in Alleged Cover-Up of Killing

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run Customs and Border Protection has been accused of participating in an alleged agency cover-up after...

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Kate Morrissey

Trump’s First 100 Days Show Immigrant Jails Are Authoritarian Testing Grounds

Since taking office in January, Trump and his regime have increasingly weaponized the immigrant detention system for his white supremacist agenda....

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Silky Shah

One of the Largest Health Insurers Is Making It Harder to Get Asthma Medicine

This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter....

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Helen Santoro

Republicans Release Plan to Further Boost Pentagon Spending by $150 Billion

Congressional Republicans on Sunday released legislation that would pump an additional $150 billion into the Pentagon — a morass of waste and...

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Jake Johnson

Black Renters at Risk of Displacement Under Trump Administration’s Housing Cuts

Originally published by Capital B. Elisha Fye Jr. grew up hearing his father’s stories of the Jim Crow South. There, Elisha Sr. was born on a...

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Adam Mahoney

“60 Minutes” Host Rebukes Paramount Over Encroachment on Show’s Independence

On Sunday evening, Scott Pelley, cohost of the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” gave a rare rebuke to the network’s parent company, Paramount, over...

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Chris Walker

Polls Show Most Voters View Trump’s First 100 Days as “Chaotic” and “Scary”

President Donald Trump has described his first 100 days in the White House in glowing terms, claiming the past three months have been some of the “...

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Chris Walker

Deportations of US Citizen Children Raise Fears for Mixed-Status Families

The Trump administration has deported three U.S. citizen children to Honduras: a 4-year-old who was actively receiving treatment for a rare form of...

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Amy Goodman

Top Democrats’ Oligarch-Friendly Politics Has Helped Enable Trump

America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal,...

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Norman Solomon

Forthcoming Anti-Trans Report From HHS Could Further Restrict Access to Care

The White House released a fact sheet Monday confirming it will declare gender-affirming care “not supported” by evidence in a new,...

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Erin Reed

Sanctions Don’t Weaken US Adversaries — But They Do Enrich Oligarchs

In a rare moment of candor, former Trump administration officials are now admitting that economic sanctions — one of their most aggressive foreign...

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Narges Bajoghli

As RFK Downplays Measles, CDC Reports Nearly 900 Infections Counted in 2025

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced late last week that the number of measles cases across the United States is...

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Chris Walker

ICE Deports 3 US Citizen Children — Including 2-Year-Old Cancer Patient

Federal immigration authorities deported three U.S. citizen children on Friday — including one with cancer who was reportedly expelled without...

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Brett Wilkins

Amid Growing Health Threats, Nurses Are Still Fighting for Basic Protections

Five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic caught our health care system unawares, nurses and other health care workers say we are no more...

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October Krausch

Secret California Court Settlement Deal Set to Weaken Crucial Oil Refinery Rules

This article was originally published by Public Health Watch , a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org....

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Jim Morris

Trump Guts Farm-to-School Grants, Undermining “Make America Healthy Again” Plan

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Early in the morning last Monday, a group of third...

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Ayurella Horn-Muller

Hundreds in Milwaukee Protest Trump FBI’s Arrest of Judge

Hundreds of people rallied in Wisconsin’s largest city on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge...

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Brett Wilkins

Pope Francis Refused to Be Silent on Gaza. Will His Successor Follow Suit?

Pope Francis, who died on April 21, was a rare beacon of hope for many Palestinians in the long months of the Gaza genocide. The pope refused to be...

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Seraj Assi