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US rebounding stocks, surging wealth for the haves and 'widespread economic misery' for the have-nots during pandemic
Sep 26, 2020 13:08As wide swaths of Americans continue to deal with economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic, federal data released recently belie the US growing wealth divide.
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Trump wrongly asserts “virtually nobody” young is harmed by COVID
Sep 26, 2020 12:54US President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that COVID-19 is a disease that only affects the elderly and urged schools to reopen their doors by arguing that “virtually nobody” young is affected by it.
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Trump's election threats a distraction from GOP voter suppression
Sep 26, 2020 12:47US President Donald Trump during this period of unrest has emboldened a lot of the more extreme right-wing elements in his base, and we see how this has played out in cities like Portland, Oregon, and Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Study shows 'Stakeholder Capitalism' failing to live up to promises as corporations continue putting profits over people in US
Sep 26, 2020 12:35A study published recently by the Test of Corporate Purpose (TCP) initiative showed that amid 2020's disastrous public health, economic, social, and environmental challenges "stakeholder capitalism" has failed to follow through on its promises to do more to benefit workers and communities, continuing to "put profits ahead of people" instead.
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Might we find life on Venus?
Sep 25, 2020 09:37On September 17 a group of scientists using Earth-based telescopes announced that they had detected phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. On Earth, phosphine is almost always produced by microbial activity. While geological processes are known that can, in principle, produce phosphine, the concentrations of the gas found on Venus, while small, were nevertheless much too high to be attributable to such sources. So how could the phosphine have gotten there? The simplest explanation is life.
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Fox Lied, 200,000 died: Video mash-up chronicles cable network downplaying COVID-19 dangers as pandemic soared
Sep 24, 2020 20:22As the United States passes the grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, Fox News continues to mostly ignore the ever-mounting death toll in favor of complaining about health measures meant to mitigate the pandemic's worst-case scenario.
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Trump spreads misinformation with claim that Dems wrote Ginsburg’s dying wish
Sep 24, 2020 20:20US President Donald Trump made false assertions recently regarding the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish, insinuating that her request to have her successor named after the election was crafted by leading Democrats in Congress.
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Astounding: Trump officials reportedly bypassed CDC scientists to publish 'dangerous' COVID-19 testing guidelines
Sep 24, 2020 20:12Trump administration officials at the Department of Health and Human Services reportedly bypassed career government scientists and authored the significantly relaxed coronavirus testing guidelines that experts criticized as medically unsound and dangerous when they were first published on the CDC website in August.
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Trump’s properties billed taxpayers $1.1 million for secret service rentals
Sep 24, 2020 15:30Properties owned by US President Donald Trump have billed the U.S. Secret Service at least $1.1 million in rental stays and other charges since he took office more than three years ago, according to The Washington Post.
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The tipping points at the heart of climate crisis
Sep 24, 2020 15:25We have known for years that many parts of the climate have so-called tipping points. That means a gentle push, like a slow and steady warming, can cause them to change in a big way that is wholly disproportionate to the trigger. If we hit one of these tipping points, we may not have any practical way to stop the unfolding consequences.