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Israel Just Denied This Doctor From Entering Gaza With Food and Baby Formula

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An American doctor who has volunteered for multiple medical missions in Gaza told Reveal and Mother Jones that after speaking out about what she witnessed over the past two years—including children shot by Israeli forces—the government of Israel has stopped her from re-entering Gaza. “We were just denied,” Dr. Mimi Syed told Reveal and Mother […]

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The Spectacular Narcissism of Trump’s Unsuccessful Peace Negotiations

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Amid starvation imposed by Israel on Gaza and deadly bombings in Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s narcissism is reaching new heights. “I’ve done six wars, I’ve ended six wars,” he claimed on Monday in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, taking credit for settling conflicts that the US began or saw little to […]

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Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act

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The Voting Rights Act turned 60 years old this month. It’s a landmark piece of legislation designed to enforce voting rights protected by the Constitution, especially for Black Americans in Southern states with a history of suppressing racial minorities from voting. The act is considered one of the most effective laws ever passed to protect […]

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Texas Democrat Forced to Sleep in Capitol After Refusing 24-Hour Police Escort

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After weeks spent out-of-state in an effort to deny Texas Republicans a quorum for an extreme redistricting plan—designed at Donald Trump’s behest to give the GOP a five-seat advantage in the House of Representatives—the state’s Democrats are still refusing to back down. After the Democrats’ departure, Gov. Greg Abbott went as far as signing arrest […]

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Control of the Senate Could Be Decided in Maine. This Oyster Farmer Is Vying to Unseat Susan Collins

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Graham Platner, a 40-year-old oyster farmer from Sullivan, Maine (pop. 1,219), announced a bid for the seat of incumbent GOP Senator Susan Collins on Tuesday. A Marine and Army veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Platner says he’s running his Democratic campaign on a message of economic populism. His goal, he says, is […]

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An Economy Based on Carbon Waste? Don’t Laugh. It Might Just Save Us.

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The US government is a big-time hoarder. At last count, in three locations—Denver, Fort Knox, and West Point—it had socked away 248,046,115.696 troy ounces of gold. One might think to round that to the nearest ounce, but at today’s prices, that extra 0.304 ounces of gold would fetch about $1,060 and the entire hoard is […]

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National Park Visitors Are Not Keen on Donald Trump’s Effort to Sanitize History

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As part of his administration’s war on “woke,” Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But the public has largely refused to support a worldview without inconvenient historical facts, comments […]

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Trump’s Promise to End Vote-By-Mail Is Yet Another Attack on Disabled Voters

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On Monday morning, President Trump returned to a longtime fixation, posting on Truth Social that he was “going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” by “signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” The post came just after Trump’s Friday summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin—not […]

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Federal Budget Cuts Are Forcing Volunteers to Clean National Forest Toilets

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a private ranch in southeastern Wyoming in mid-June, mud squelched under our sterilized muck boots as we searched for one of North America’s most endangered amphibians. Adult Wyoming toads, raised in captivity by the US Fish and Wildlife […]

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Choose Your Child or Choose Recovery: The Impossible Decision Facing Addicted Mothers

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This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project,  a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. April Lee was still functional in her opioid addiction, still walking her kids to school in Philadelphia, preparing her infant daughter’s bottles, when a sexual assault sent her teetering over the edge. She had been drugged at a […]

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Anti-Abortion Playbook, Flipped: Arkansas Abortion Fund Opens Its Own “Crisis Pregnancy Center”

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For nine years, Karen Musick stood outside the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic in Arkansas, protecting women arriving for their abortion appointments from anti-abortion protesters who regularly gathered there. After retiring from her job as a loan specialist with the Small Business Administration, Musick was filled with purpose as a clinic escort volunteer. “I […]

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Laura Loomer’s Latest Victim: Visas For Critically Injured Palestinian Kids

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Laura Loomer, the far-right provocateur and conspiracy theorist who has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” has proven to have particular sway with President Donald Trump. The latest example came on Saturday, when the State Department halted all visitor visas to people from Gaza, including humanitarian medical visas for injured children. The announcement followed Loomer’s days-long posting […]

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