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Fruit Workers Ready Strike for COVID-Safe Working Conditions
Demands for safer working conditions and extra hazard pay during the pandemic are powering strikes in the Yakima Valley.
WHO Doctor Warns Against Hydroxychloroquine Use as Trump Continues to Peddle It
Trump has called studies demonstrating the dangers of using hydroxychloroquine against COVID, “Trump Enemy” statements
Mnuchin Wants to Deny Unemployment to Workers Who Stay Home Due to COVID Risk
Fear of contracting COVID — which has killed nearly 100,000 Americans — doesn't suffice for unemployment, Mnuchin says.
Florida Data Chief Claims She Was Fired for Refusing to Tamper With COVID Data
Rebekah Jones says she was fired for declining to “manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen.”
Amid Floods and Pandemic, Trump Threatens Michigan’s Funding Over Mail-In Voting
Trump confused Michigan’s absentee ballot applications for ballots and revived unproven allegations about voter fraud.
Workers Are Afraid of Returning to Work. Will There Be a General Strike?
Calls for a general strike are growing as millions of people consider going back to work after months of quarantine.
Trump Is Willing to Let Boosted Unemployment Expire for 36 Million Out of Work
President Trump told GOP senators on Tuesday that he is willing to let expanded unemployment expire at the end of July.
Roe of “Roe v. Wade” Says Christian Right Paid Her to Be Anti-Choice Mouthpiece
McCorvey was paid more than $450,000 in “benevolent gifts” to be an anti-abortion spokesperson.
Trump’s “VERY Promising” Vaccine Is at Least a Year Away, Leaked Memo Suggests
The leaked Pentagon memo warns that a vaccine won't likely become available until “at least the summer of 2021.”
US Is Using Pandemic as an Excuse to Send Asylum Seekers Back Into Harm’s Way
The U.S. is using the pandemic as a pretext to further shut down asylum, while spreading the virus through deportations.