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May 02 2013
News
Fix The Debt CEOs Bring $1 Billion From Tax Loopholes
WASHINGTON -- Companies in the Fix the Debt coalition which advocates for federal austerity policies qualified for 1 billion or more in tax breaks tied to executive pay packages from 2009 to 2011 according to a new report by the liberal think tanks Institute for Policy Studies and Campaign for Americas Future. The four highest-paid executives at the firms received a total of 6.3 billion in pay
HuffPost
Jan 08 2021
Analysis
Black Organizers Delivered Democrats Control of Congress
As returns for Georgia’s Senate runoff came in on Tuesday night, it was clear what was happening. After considerable back-and-forth in November and December about just how much President-elect Joe Biden owed his electoral victory in the state to white suburban voters, control of the Senate was being unequivocally driven by Black turnout. The Democratic candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon
Slate
Aug 05 2020
News
Biden won’t travel to Milwaukee to accept Democratic nomination amid coronavirus concerns
Former vice president Joe Biden will not travel to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic presidential nomination due to coronavirus concerns, convention organizers confirmed Wednesday.
Biden will deliver his speech accepting the nomination later this month in his home state of Delaware, organizers said, adding that all other speakers who had been planning to travel to Milwaukee will no
Washington Post
Feb 19 2020
News
George Zimmerman Sues Warren, Buttigieg for Defamation
George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin, is suing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and former South Bend, Indiana. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, accusing them of defamation, Newsweek reports.
Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder in 2012, has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the two Democratic presidential candidates of acting with malice or “at a minimum a
Newsmax (News)
Aug 03 2020
News
Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in North Carolina
Hurricane Isaias has blasted ashore in North Carolina, crossing the coast 40 miles (65km) south-west of Wilmington.
It made landfall at 23:10 EDT (03:10 GMT on Tuesday) with maximum sustained winds of 85mph (140km/h), the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Isaias was downgraded to a tropical storm after hitting islands in the Caribbean, but was recategorised as a category-one
BBC News
Sep 22 2019
News
Sanders’s apples-and-oranges comparison on Medicare-for-all costs
“Joe said that Medicare-for-all would cost over $30 trillion. That’s right, Joe. Status quo over 10 years will be $50 trillion.”
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), remarks during the third Democratic presidential debate, Sept. 12, 2019
Sanders made this comment after former vice president Joe Biden criticized the senator’s Medicare-for-all plan for potentially adding “$30 trillion, $
Washington Post
Apr 29 2018
News
Historic Korean summit sets high bar for Trump
Bitter foes for more than six decades, North and South Korea agreed Friday to “denuclearize” the Korean Peninsula — but the hard part is being left to President Trump.
The Hill
Sep 27 2012
News
Scientists: Climate bias at Fox, WSJ ‘far exceeded’ rest of media
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has just published a study criticizing Fox News Channel and the Wall Street Journals opinion section for misleading coverage of the climate change issue. Jumping straight to the key findings:
¢ Over a recent six-month period, 93 percent of Fox News Channels representations of climate science were misleading (37 out of 40 instances).
Washington Post
Apr 15 2020
News
Black Businesses Matter, But Will They Get Fair Share Of COVID-19 Aid Money?
“African Americans never really recovered from the housing crash and economic meltdown and that reality is going to be a very important factor for Black people, especially since the U.S. may be going into some form of depression,” said Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of TransAfrica Forum and a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies. “I saw a report last week that shows the
Chicago Defender