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Longshoremen Threaten Strike as GOP Pushes Biden to Intervene in Contract Battle
Over 25,000 workers may walk off the job Tuesday, shutting down ports across the East Coast if a deal isn’t reached.
As Florida Floods, Insurance Industry Reaps What It Sowed Backing Fossil Fuels
As climate change intensifies the violence of storms like Hurricane Helene, the industry is in a self-induced crisis.
Federal Judge Blocks Parts of Alabama Law Imposing Limits on Disabled Voters
The law “unduly burdens the rights” of voters who have disabilities “to make a choice about who may assist them.”
Israeli Bombs Displace 140,000 Children as Lebanon Braces for Possible Invasion
Israeli attacks this week killed nearly 700 as Netanyahu vowed to continue military escalation.
103 Democrats Demand Homicide Probe Into Israel’s Killing of Aysenur Eygi
Failing to investigate Eygi’s killing “gives Israeli forces unacceptable license to act with impunity,” they said.
Ron Wyden Submits Bill to Drastically Reform Supreme Court
“I think we can all agree it's time to reform the Supreme Court,” said Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.
Israel Sends 88 Unidentifiable Bodies of Palestinians to Gaza in a Container
The Israeli military returned the Palestinians’ bodies with no identification or information about their deaths.
Sanders Files to Force First-Ever Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel
“There is a mountain of documentary evidence” that Israel uses US weapons to violate the law, Sanders said.
Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Back Ending the Electoral College
The poll comes eight years after Trump won the presidency in 2016 without winning the popular vote.
Khanna Reintroduces Bill Ending Massive Taxpayer Subsidies for Captured Carbon
Many scientists and advocates warn carbon capture utilization and storage is actually used to extract more fossil fuels.