“Donald Trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power and keep control of the government despite losing an election,” said one ethics expert. “There may be no more serious offense in a republic.”
One attorney said that the former president’s “stupid and desperate motion gets treated like a stupid and desperate motion.”
In this bone-chilling report, it is explained that at this point over a million people on this planet have been forced out of their homes and obliged to seek refuge elsewhere....
"If left to their own devices, Republicans would gleefully take public education to the graveyard," said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
The House passed an $886 billion military spending bill on Friday, with four Democrats joining Republicans. The bill contains several Republican amendments targeting abortion access, gender-affirming care, and climate policies. Progressives criticized the bill for allocating the largest military budget ever, failing to cut...
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230 employees join over 8,500 unionizing across the United States
The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), on Thursday marked up a GOP appropriations bill for fiscal year 2024. A Republican fact sheet celebrates proposed “cuts to wasteful spending” and “claw-backs of prior appropriations,” highlighting that it “reins...
The Wisconsin Republican millionaire accused working-class Americans of “getting a lot more in return” from the key social program than rich people who pay disproportionately less into its coffers.
Republicans on a House Appropriations Committee are proposing a 64% cut to two federal clean water funds for the next fiscal year....
NASA called the soaring heat “part of a pattern of increasing global temperatures, as a result of human activities, mainly carbon dioxide emissions.”
“This bill shows that Social Security is fully affordable—as long as the wealthiest among us pay their fair share,” said one advocate....
“We are going to show them that the power of the people is stronger than that of the people in power,” said one demonstrator....
“The authorities are missing in action,” said one campaigner. “If they won’t step in to stop illegal, planet-wrecking coal mining, we will.”