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A former UN rapporteur says that the numerous U.S. sanctions against Venezuela are devastating and illegal.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after Special Counsel Mueller released a seven-count indictment of top Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone.
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The U.S. under President Donald Trump dropped six places to 22nd globally in the 2018 corruption-perception index published by the Berlin-based Transparency International.
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What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy? A lot, says Paul Krugman in his New York Times column.
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Major League Baseball on Wednesday reached a historic agreement with Cuba’s baseball federation that would regulate and streamline the entry of Cuban players coming to the U.S.
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A group of newly elected progressive House Democrats are protesting their own congressional orientation program at Harvard Kennedy School this week.
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A Miami Herald investigation on Acosta's role as prosecutor in a South Florida child-sex case has raised new questions about the Trump cabinet member.
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No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive principles.
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After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017, according to a Georgetown University report.
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Melania Trump's 12-hour 2017 trip to Toronto cost taxpayers $174,000 in hotel bills. The first lady was in Toronto to help kick off the Invictus Games, which Britain’s Prince Harry…
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