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Sen. Bernie Sanders also denounced the guidance, lamenting that "archaic and undemocratic rules of the Senate" are now standing in the way of ending "starvation wages in this country."

The move comes as part of a broader measure featuring what the ACLU called "important changes to policing and our criminal justice system."

Lawsuit cites global candy companies, seeking freedom and compensation for children forced into dangerous work on cocoa farms.

Spousal consent laws that give anyone veto power over someone else's pregnancy decisions are unequivocally unconstitutional.

Internal intelligence community report names Grenell and Ratcliffe for ‘politicalization’ of analysts’ findings.

'If somebody wants to have a shrine to their gun fetish as a Zoom backdrop in their private life, they can do that,' Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) said.

Believers of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory are convinced that former President Donald Trump will be sworn back into office on March 4, 2021.

"Five million Texans are without power tonight and temperatures are below freezing. People will most certainly die tonight because of it. But Gov. Abbott had time to go on Sean Hannity to blame the Green New Deal."

I think Democrats made a wise judgment. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy shows why.

Just 76,518 votes were the difference between Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the White House.

“Tell all of your normie friends to get their asses onto Telegram,” wrote Proud Boys: Uncensored, a channel linked to the far-right, neo-fascist Proud Boys. “And exchange phone numbers with your tribe, if you haven’t already.”

"I think it very well may be the case that reluctant senators change their mind and vote to convict," prosecution aides said.

"It says so much about how utterly rigged the system is that it takes a team of lawyers to figure out some hail-mary-pass way to raise the minimum wage."

Removing Greene from her committee assignments was just a first step.

The economic carnage from Trump’s incompetent and malicious response to the coronavirus has been concentrated in poor and minority neighborhoods.

"This would save over $250 billion, which should be repurposed to help Americans who have lost income due to the pandemic and its economic fallout."

Congress could use an arcane section of the 14th Amendment to hold Trump accountable for Capitol attack

President Biden inherited a disaster: Not enough doses, not enough equipment, and no distribution network.

"Wall Street and stock market are metaphors for a society rotting from self-indulgence, greed, widening inequality, and financial entrepreneurship that builds nothing, improves nothing, creates nothing, and solves nothing."

Environmental justice, scientific integrity, climate’s threat to national security and weaning off fossil fuels. It’s a big agenda and an emphatic rejection of the last four years.