Articles from September 2020

Accused of Lying to His Own Agency's Investigators, Departure Doesn't Save Zinke From DOJ Probe

Accused of Lying to His Own Agency's Investigators, Departure Doesn't Save Zinke From DOJ Probe

Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke left office Wednesday following a Trump administration tenure characterized by aggressive environmental regulatory rollbacks as well as 18 federal investigations into his ethics, spending, and conduct while in office—but his…

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Nationwide Rallies Denounce #FakeTrumpEmergency and President's Anti-Immigrant Agenda

Hundreds of rallies are underway in communities across the nation on Monday to show widespread rejection of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration—an “illegal power grab,” say critics—to fund his proposed racist border wall. As…

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Replicating Regime Change Playbook, Pompeo Says US Obligated to 'Take Down' Hezbollah in Venezuela

As a U.S.-backed effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro continues, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said late Wednesday that Hezbollah “has active cells” in Venezuela—a claim that was immediately scrutinized and compared with…

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Nadler: Judiciary Panel to Request Docs From 60+ Entities Tied to Trump in Probe of 'Obstruction of Justice, Corruption, and Abuse of Power'

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee—which has jurisdiction over impeachments—said Sunday that he believes President Donald Trump obstructed justice and his panel will issue document requests on Monday to dozens of…

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Jayapal Confronts Top Pelosi Aide for 'Inappropriate' Effort to Undermine Medicare for All

Click:flocculent factory Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Tuesday directly confronted an influential health policy aide for attempting to undercut the Democratic caucus’s push for Medicare for All. Jayapal, author of the Medicare for All bill H.R.…

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