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Trump is on a death row killing spree: Bill Barr now wants to bring back firing squads

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

1 in 10 Americans go hungry as Trump and McConnell work to overturn election results

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Tenant right advocates including Karissa Stotts organized a honking, vehicle protest around the US Bank building. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Workers are afraid of returning to work amid pandemic. Is a general strike finally on the horizon?

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Doctor and pharmacist Gilles Leboucher prepares a diluted solution of phages from three different concentrated types of phages on March 8, 2019, at the Croix-Rousse hospital, in Lyon, central-eastern France. (Romain Lafabregue/AFP/Getty Images)

Big Pharma’s blindspot: Before COVID-19, vaccine and antiviral research went neglected

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FILE – In this Oct. 23, 2015, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a balanced budget discussion with business leaders in Manchester, N.H. As the U.S. national debt ticks toward $20 trillion, Kasich says he is not abandoning his goal of a federal balanced-budget amendment, telling The Associated Press in a Tuesday, March 21, 2017, interview that the issue isn't partisan but critical to sustained economic prosperity. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) (AP)

Years of austerity weakened the public health response to coronavirus

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Exhaust billows from Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Thursday, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Refineries are spewing cancer-causing benzene as Trump slashes enforcement

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Virtually all major U.S. drinking water sources likely contaminated with PFAS

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After 68 days, hunger strikers in ICE custody are on the brink of death

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An indigenous leader from Brazil takes part in a protest outside REPSOL Headquarters on December 08, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Indigenous leaders and activists are protesting in Madrid against oil contamination and the fossil fuel industry in Brazil because of the damage it provokes to the poorest communities, sea life, food supplies and the climate. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

UN: Climate change will create “new great divergence” between rich and poor

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Goodbye DARE — more schools are embracing realistic drug education

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Clarence Singleton registers to vote at the Lee County Supervisor of Elections office on January 08, 2019 in Fort Myers, Florida. Mr. Singleton is able to register to vote for the first time after his right to vote was taken away in 2008 as a new constitutional amendment took effect, which automatically restores voting rights to most people who have felonies on their record. The referendum overturned a 150-year-old law that barred people with felony convictions from voting. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Modern-day “poll taxes” disenfranchise millions of low-income voters

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Why Trump’s “sloppy” policies keep getting held up in court

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In this Wednesday, April 21, 2010 file photo, oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s massive offshore drilling sale in Gulf of Mexico

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The Republican war on the poor and vulnerable

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Trump and Sessions just jump-started the war on drugs that’s also a war on immigrants

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