Author name: Heather Cox Richardson

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On Tuesday, President Donald J.

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Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

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Very little shocks me these days, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) managed to do it this morning when he told reporters he skipped a meeting of the Gang of Eight yesterday because “we were working on the healthcare stuff.” The Gang of Eight is made up of the top Democrats and Republicans in each chamber of Congress and the top Democrats and Republicans on each chamber’s intelligence committee.

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Last Wednesday, December 3, a reporter asked President Donald J.

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“I think it’s really important that this video be made public,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said today on Face the Nation. Himes was referring to a video of the September 2 U.S. military strike on a small boat with 11 people on it. In that attack, the first strike broke the boat apart and set it on fire. The strike killed nine people but left two alive, clinging to the remains of the vessel.

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