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Fed Chair Jerome Powell Sold Over $1 Million in Stocks Right Before Crash
The sale came on the first day of October 2020, which was among the worst months of the pandemic for the stock market.
Manchin Obstructs Climate Progress as His Family Is Hit by “Unbelievable” Storms
Manchin’s hometown of Farmington has been threatened by worsening rains and floods over the past years.
Students in GA Protested Against Racism. Only the Black Pupils Were Punished.
Students planned a protest in response to white students flying a Confederate flag and using racial slurs.
US Billionaires Became $2.1 Trillion Richer in 19 Months of Pandemic
Over 700 billionaires now hold $5 trillion in collective wealth.
Colin Powell, Who Helped George W. Bush Lie Nation Into Iraq War, Dies
In 2003, Powell claimed that the Iraqi government was hiding a secret chemical weapons program.
DOJ Will Ask Supreme Court to Place Stay on Texas’s 6-Week Abortion Ban
“It’s an incredible long shot” that the Supreme Court would agree to an injunction on the law, one legal scholar said.
Biden Has Outpaced Trump’s Use of Title 42 to Expel Asylum Seekers
President Joe Biden has used Title 42 to expel migrants over a remote border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico.
Hospital Workers Report Rising Violence Throughout Pandemic
Health care workers are sounding the alarm on increased threats and assaults in their workplaces.
Coalition Urges Biden to Change Approach to Global Food, Agriculture
Food justice advocates are pushing the Biden administration to change its pro-corporate agricultural agenda.
Food Apartheid Threatens BIPOC Children’s Health. Food Sovereignty Is the Fix.
Food apartheid is just one way that racism enters our babies' bodies.