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The philosophy behind Trump's entire response to the pandemic, is that he thinks that seniors' lives are disposable.

More than 1,100 hogs slaughtered every hour as the pandemic cuts a deadly swath through the workforce.

An Ohio National Guard soldier​, who was suspended and recalled from his mission in Washington, D.C., earlier this month for holding white supremacist views​, appeared on a neo-fascist podcast uploaded Sunday​​.

In a new memo, the Trump campaign said polls by media organizations are wrong, but it shared no alternatives showing Trump winning.

"William Pendley is uniquely unqualified for this position."

The plan includes Teshekpuk Lake and other ecologically sensitive areas that offer habitat for threatened species and are critical to an Indigenous native village.

Data shows that in many places, the uptick in cases outstrips the increase in testing — and experts say it’s too soon to know whether a surge in deaths will follow.

Trump and his staff of unqualified family and equally unqualified sycophants are naïve and gullible, their rank incompetence unwittingly putting our national security in jeopardy.

It took President Donald Trump less than four years to take over the federal courts. It will take us a lifetime to undo the damage.

It is now more urgent than ever for our lawmakers to stop law enforcement use of face recognition technology.

ProPublica Deputy Managing Editor Eric Umansky’s family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.

Contrary to President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that he inherited a Strategic National Stockpile with “empty” or “bare” cupboards, the federal government had more ventilators in stock than it ended up distributing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, FactCheck.org has learned.

The bar couldn't be lower for Trump's supporters.

"This administration will put our country at grave risk if it tries to declare an early victory, leave lifesaving work undone, and leave resources our communities desperately need sitting untouched."

For more than four decades, Robert Bullard has devoted his life to exposing what he calls “eco-racism.”

Schools often teach the Civil War in terms of “free states” and “slave states.” Illinois complicates those definitions.

"Today we celebrate and tomorrow we will continue to fight because Trump's attacks on the immigrant community must end."

In the highest reaches of corporate America, there's been an outpouring of solidarity with those protesting brutal police killings of black Americans and systemic racism. But most of this is for show.

"Private equity firms will now be allowed to access—and skim fees off of—the $9 trillion in 100 million workers' 401(k) plans and IRAs."

Economists have warned that in addition to "causing avoidable human misery," ending the enhanced unemployment insurance "would severely hamper spending—and, by extension, the overall economic recovery."