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Cindy Napolitan and her daughter Melissa have multiple sclerosis and live in a nursing home. Previously they voted by mail, but this year they voted in person. They worried their mail-in ballots — and even their in-person votes — may not be counted. truthout.org/articles/nursin…
Norwegian People’s Aid, a leading NGO doing land mine removal and disarmament work around the world, announced it will decline U.S. funding due to new restrictions related to DEI. truthout.org/articles/trumps…
The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s bid to halt care for incarcerated transgender people, marking a rare win for transgender rights at the conservative-leaning court.
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Student-led protests in Albania are escalating over corruption, living costs, and a planned Kushner/Trump luxury resort. Demonstrators are calling for the prime minister’s resignation, among other demands.
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcasters over poll coverage. A Democratic strategist responds: “It’s not illegal to tell the American people that Trump is a failed president.”
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Student-led protests in Paris have spread across France over several weeks, despite arrests, reports of police brutality, and restrictions on demonstrations.
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Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton says Ramaswamy exploited her estranged mother for political gain. Acton accused her mother’s then-husband of sexually assaulting her as a child.
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A new Progress Action Fund ad calls out the GOP’s “creepy fetish of monitoring children’s bathrooms.” The left-wing PAC aims to disrupt the right-wing media bubble.
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A poll finds 7 in 10 Americans doubt Trump will accept the midterm election results. He has said he will accept them only if he considers them “honest.”
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Nurses helped win what the report calls the first US countywide 12-week paid parental leave policy in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Advocates hope the victory inspires other localities to follow suit.
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Texas regulators continued permitting data centers after Governor Greg Abbott ordered a pause, according to a new report. It identified 35 permitting actions in the weeks following the moratorium.
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As more unions oppose ICE and Israel, the right is targeting their internal records, seeking access to meeting minutes, membership lists, and Zoom chats, according to the report.
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Lawyers accuse the Trump administration of creating a “deportation assembly line” for migrant children. Their lawsuit argues that its policies deny those children due process.
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Anti-transgender ads may be backfiring on Republicans, according to the report. Elon Musk’s America PAC has committed $100 million to a midterm push that heavily features those ads.
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Canadian voters rejected secession after the Trump administration backed Alberta’s separatists, according to the report. Leaders of the “Let Alberta Decide” campaign had sought advice from Republican operatives.
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Mahmoud Khalil has appealed to the Supreme Court to block the Trump administration from detaining him. The pro-Palestine activist says the administration is violating his free speech rights.
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Mississippi’s attorney general declared the police shooting of a 1-year-old “justified.” The report places it within a pattern of racist police violence against Black residents of Senatobia.
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Race and class have entered the Flock camera chat.
Police keep secret the location data on where Flock-style cameras are located — but researchers in VA got their hands on data from Hampton Roads.
Can you guess where Flock cams are concentrated???
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Hobby Lobby’s billionaire founders are funding evangelical propaganda to shape a white evangelical America, Michael Blanding documents in his new book.
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Navi Pillay calls U.S. sanctions on the ICC “totally unacceptable.” She led the UN inquiry that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
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