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Trump Sounds Down to Pardon Eric Adams

On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump said that he would consider pardoning Eric Adams if the New York City mayor is convicted on charges related to...

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Dr. Oz’s Healthcare Investments Could Blow Up His Nomination to Oversee Medicare

Seven Democratic senators are demanding answers from Dr. Mehmet Oz, Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,...

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There’s Still Time for Biden to Clear Death Row. Will He?

Joe Biden made history as the first president to openly oppose the death penalty, vowing on the campaign trail to push legislation to abolish the...

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Why Republicans Are “Very Excited” About Dr. Oz

Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via AP Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has seized headlines with a series of alarming...

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Why Republicans Are “Very Excited” About Dr. Oz

Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via AP Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has seized headlines with a series of alarming...

22.11.2024 4

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Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations

On Monday, Donald Trump appeared to confirm that he is willing—even eager—to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out his...

18.11.2024 5

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In Turnaround, SCOTUS Legalizes Virginia Voter Purge

AP Photo/Steve Helber On Wednesday, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to remove...

31.10.2024 20

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Virginia’s Obviously Illegal Voter Purge Was Illegal, Court Rules

AP Photo/Cliff Owen On Friday, a Virginia judge ruled that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent purge of close to two thousand voters from...

26.10.2024 20

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Elon Musk Is Offering Pennsylvania Voters $100 to Sign His Pro-Trump Petition

AP Photo/Matt Rourke Elon Musk’s obsessive quest to get Donald Trump into the White House has taken a desperate turn. On Thursday, the tech CEO...

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Elon Musk Is Offering Pennsylvania Voters $100 to Sign His Pro-Trump Petition

AP Photo/Matt Rourke Elon Musk’s obsessive quest to get Donald Trump into the White House has taken a desperate turn. On Friday, the tech CEO...

19.10.2024 3

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Obama’s Advice to Black Men Ignores a Deeper Problem for Democrats

Barack Obama speaks during a rally for Kamala Harris on Thursday, October 10, 2024. Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty With less than a...

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Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible? It’s Made in China.

President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in...

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Oklahoma Is Trying to Put Trump Bibles in the Classroom

AP Photo/Nati Harnik In June, Oklahoma’s Trump-supporting top school official, Ryan Walters, ordered the state’s schools to teach the Bible in...

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Five Men Were Executed in a Week. Why Is Kamala Harris Suddenly Silent on the Death Penalty?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP Freddie “Khalil” Owens. Marcellus “Khaliifah”  Williams. Emmanuel Littlejohn. Travis Mullis. Alan Eugene...

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The Tragic Inevitability of Overpolicing New York’s Subways

Police and protesters gather outside of a Brownsville Brooklyn subway station following a shooting on Sunday of a subway fare evader on September 17,...

19.09.2024 10

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Bomb Threat Prompts Evacuation of Springfield, Ohio, City Hall

Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty A bomb threat sent to “multiple agencies and media outlets” in Springfield, Ohio, forced the closure of the town’s...

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Even Fox News Acknowledges Reality: Trump Blew the Debate

AP Photo/John Locher As my colleague David Corn put it, Donald Trump lost the first presidential debate against Kamala Harris by simply being...

11.09.2024 4

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Trump Asked to Appeal His Defamation Verdict, Then Spent 40 Minutes Insulting His Victims on TV

AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah I’m no legal expert, but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that if you’ve just asked a judge to reconsider your guilty...

07.09.2024 4

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White House Strikes Landmark Deal to Cut Drug Costs

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that—after months of negotiations—it had finally struck a deal with...

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The Childless Cat Lady Memes Are Flowing as J.D. Vance Keeps Digging

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks during a campaign rally at Middletown High School on July 22, 2024 in Middletown,...

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Trump Tells Christian Supporters: “You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore”

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Turning Point Believers' Summit, Friday, July 26, 2024, in West Palm...

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More and More Trump Allies Are Prepping for Civil War

Last week, at J.D. Vance’s first rally as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee, Ohio state Sen. George Lang said that civil war would be necessary...

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She Called the Police for Help. They Killed Her Instead.

Illinois State Police On Monday, an Illinois county sheriff’s department released body camera footage showing the fatal shooting of a Black woman...

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GOP Lawmakers Now Blame Women for Trump’s Assassination Attempt

Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA Even after the attempted assassination of their presidential candidate, the GOP remains focused on being shitty: During a...

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More and More Rappers Are Hopping Aboard the Trump Train

Paul Sancya/AP Since kicking off his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s team has tried everything to appeal to Black voters. In February,...

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While Biden Defended His Candidacy, Donald Trump Hung Out With Viktor Orbán

Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa USAOlivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa USA One bright spot for President Joe Biden as he defended his decision to remain in the...

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US Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis

John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images On Tuesday, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a landmark advisory declaring...

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Fani Willis Appears to Fire Back at Rudy Giuliani’s “Ho” Attack

Mother Jones illustration; Robin Rayne/ZUMA; Matt Rourke/AP Last Friday, my colleague Stephanie Mencimer had the distinct honor—or...

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Virginia Board Votes to Rename Schools Back to Honoring Confederate Military Leaders

After the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, dozens of schools bearing names that honored Confederate figures renamed themselves. The move came...

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Donald Trump’s Historic Hush-Money Trial Finally Begins

The hush money trial of former President Trump begins Monday with jury selection. Jeenah Moon/AP So, here we are.  The first day of the first...

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José Andrés: IDF Airstrikes Deliberately Targeted Aid Workers, “Systematically, Car by Car”

Palestinians transporting the bodies of employees from the World Central Kitchen killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the Hamas-run Gaza...

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A List of Weird Stuff the Right Connected to the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday after a support column was struck by a vessel. Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun/ZUMA ...

26.03.2024 8

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Elon Musk Keeps Spreading A Very Specific Kind of Racism

Alex Gallardo/AP Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race...

13.03.2024 10

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YouTube’s Austin Ambitions Aren’t Going Well. Just Ask These Workers.

Screenshot On Friday, a YouTube Music contractor named Jack Benedict took the podium before Austin’s City Council. He was there to urge the council...

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Nex Benedict’s Death Triggers Federal Investigation

Katie Godowski/AP On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education announced an investigation into an Oklahoma school district for allegedly failing to...

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Texas School Can Suspend Black Student For His Hair, Court Rules

Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via AP A 2021 University of Pittsburgh study, promoted by the American Psychological Association, found that not only...

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Biden Administration Cancels More Than $1.2 Billion in Student Loans

Stephanie Scarbrough/AP On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced it would forgive more than 150,000 borrowers’ student loans, totaling a...

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Democrat Wins Special Election for George Santos’ House Seat

J. Scott Applewhite/AP On Tuesday, Democrat Tom Suozzi was elected to replace indicted former GOP Rep. George Santos of New York in a special House...

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74 Percent of Republicans Say They’d Let Trump Be a Dictator For a Day

John Locher/AP Roughly two months ago, Donald Trump reminded voters of his authoritarian tendencies when the former president expressed interest in...

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Alabama Has Carried Out Its First Nitrogen Gas Execution

FILE - Alabama's lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is pictured in this Oct. 7, 2002 file photo. Kenneth Smith,...

27.01.2024 10

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A Dangerous Experiment in Executing Prisoners Is Happening Tonight in Alabama

Sue Ogrocki/AP Today, Alabama will attempt to kill 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas—an untested execution method that experts...

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Justice Department Finds “Cascading Failures” Contributed to Botched Uvalde Police Response

Eric Gay/AP The police response to the May 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which killed two teachers and 19 elementary school students at Robb...

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ABC Just Canceled Thursday’s Planned GOP Debate

Meg Kinnard/AP On Tuesday morning, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said that she’d no longer attend Republican primary debates unless Donald...

17.01.2024 4

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Nikki Haley Says No More Debates Unless Trump is On Stage

You probably didn’t watch the GOP debates, and now you may not have to read headlines about them either. On Tuesday, fresh off a disappointing third...

16.01.2024 3

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As It Formally Accuses Israel of Genocide, South Africa Condemns Netanyahu’s Amalek Reference

Avi Ohayon/AP Lawyers representing South Africa on Thursday said that Israeli soldiers interpreted a biblical reference made by Benjamin Netanyahu...

12.01.2024 20

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Rep. Cori Bush Calls on Congress to End Race-Based Hair Discrimination

Craig Hudson/AP After a high-profile incident in which a Black teen was punished over the length of his hair, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is pushing for...

11.01.2024 10

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Federal Agency Accuses SpaceX of Illegally Firing Employees for Criticizing Elon Musk

Press Association/AP Images SpaceX, the space flight company owned by Elon Musk, illegally fired eight employees after they criticized Musk’s...

05.01.2024 30

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Mayors of Sanctuary Cities Introduced Measures to Slow Down Surge of Migrants

John Lamparski/AP After more than a year of Gov. Greg Abbott continuously busing as many as 150,000 migrants to US sanctuary cities, leaders in some...

31.12.2023 20

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California Coast Hit with Colossal Waves and Devastating Flooding for Third Day

Richard Vogel/AP Abnormally large waves, some as high as 40 feet, have been pummelling Southern California’s coastal communities since Thursday,...

30.12.2023 7

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In a Surprising Move, Ohio Governor Vetoes Trans Sports and Gender-Affirming Care Ban

Stephen Zenner/AP At least 22 states have a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths. But, as of Friday, Ohio is not one of them. In a...

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