Australian senator wears burqa after move to block her face-covering ban bill
Australia’s Parliament descended into turmoil Monday after right-wing populist Sen. Pauline Hanson entered the chamber wearing a burqa, triggering outrage...
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AIPAC Donors Back Real Estate Tycoon Who Opposed Gaza Ceasefire For Deep Blue Chicago Seat
Pro-Israel donors have picked a candidate to replace Rep. Danny Davis in Chicago. Jason Friedman, one of 18 candidates vying...
Robert Reich Thinks Democrats Are On the Brink of a New Era
The Labor Department reported September jobs numbers on Thursday, showing employers added 119,000 jobs to the economy but also an...
Abdul El-Sayed Wants to Be the First Pro-Palestine Senator From Michigan
Abdul El-Sayed didn’t want to talk about his opponents. Running for Senate in the swing state of Michigan, he’s been...
Everyone Wants to Ban Congressional Stock Trades, but Some Supporters Worry Mike Johnson Is Stalling
On paper, the idea of banning congressional stock trades has all the ingredients for success: supermajority support in polls, bipartisan...
Senators demand answers from MLB on how it’s addressing ‘threats to baseball’s integrity’
Senate lawmakers sent a letter to MLB Commissioner demanding answers on how the league "is addressing alleged game manipulation and...
You Will Never Send Money Digitally Without a Private Company — If the GOP Gets Its Way
Americans who want to transfer money online have options. They can go with services like Venmo and PayPal, make transfers...
Epstein Is the Only Thing That Could Turn Trump’s Base Against Him
A protester holds a sign related to the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files outside the Capitol in Washington,...
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
The Trump administration is promising legal cover for military personnel who carry out lethal attacks on the alleged drug smugglers...
Saikat Chakrabarti’s Plan for the Political Revolution
It’s the end of an era. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who counts among her legacies in Congress successfully undercutting the...
Insurgent Democratic Candidates Are Ready to Run on Shutdown Betrayal
As the shutdown deal between centrist Senate Democrats and Republicans drew fury from the Democratic base, primary candidates for U.S....
SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
Sarah, a 44-year-old single mother in Maryland, was down to the last $20 on her EBT card as of Monday,...
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
President Donald Trump’s military occupations of U.S. cities have cost nearly half a billion dollars, according to an expert estimate...
Key Senate Dem Says Party Caved on Shutdown to Make a Symbolic Point About the GOP
Outraged voters and politicians alike are demanding to know why a group of Senate Democrats sided with Republicans to reopen...
Government shutdown reaches overseas bases as many feel the strain
Thousands of miles from the stalemate in Washington D.C., the effects of the government shutdown are being felt around the...
