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As Biden plans withdrawal, analysis shows Afghan war cost at least 241,000 lives and $2.26 trillion
Apr 18, 2021 12:27What Biden did not admit is that the United States and its allies, with all their money and firepower, were unable to vanquish the Taliban, who currently control about half of Afghanistan and are positioned to control even more in the coming months without a ceasefire.
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Biden breaks promise on refugee resettlement, imposing Trump’s “draconian” cap
Apr 18, 2021 05:08US President Joe Biden will uphold former President Donald Trump’s historically low “refugee cap” despite earlier promises to raise it drastically. Biden’s decision prolongs what Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal have decried as “the Trump Administration’s full-scale assault on refugee resettlement in the United States.”
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'Shame': Biden to advance Trump-era sale of $23 billion in F-35s and armed drones to UAE
Apr 18, 2021 05:02Anti-war activists warned that the UAE agreement, which will likely take years to complete, would put more high-tech weaponry under the control of a country that has shown complete disregard for human rights in Yemen and elsewhere.
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The terrible deal between corporate America and the GOP is alive and well
Apr 17, 2021 02:50Corporations can and should bankroll much of what America needs. But they won’t as long as corporations keep bankrolling American politicians. The basic deal between American corporations and American politicians has been a terrible deal for America.
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Months after Biden promised to end support for Yemen war, Congress still has no details
Apr 17, 2021 02:46More than two months after President Joe Biden announced that he would end “all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales,” his administration has yet to detail what forms of support the U.S. has cut off.
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Americans need to do more to combat anti-Asian hate crimes
Apr 17, 2021 02:41The job of fighting hatred toward Asian-Americans cannot be left to the Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community alone – the majority non-Asian community has a moral obligation to do more to combat this problem.
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'Out of abundance of caution,' FDA and CDC recommend pause of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
Apr 16, 2021 13:30Injections of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine came to a sudden halt in much of the US on Tuesday, April 13th after federal health agencies called for a pause in the vaccine’s use following the emergence of a rare blood clotting disorder in six recipients.
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Minnesota officer who killed Daunte Wright resigns along with police chief
Apr 16, 2021 13:28Kim Potter, the white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot the Black resident Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, and her chief of police, Tim Gannon, resigned on Tuesday (13 Apr 2021). Their resignations come after two nights of protests in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center over Sunday’s killing of Wright, who was unarmed when he was pulled over for a traffic violation .
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Majority of voters want government to rein in Wall Street’s climate destruction: Poll
Apr 16, 2021 04:05Recent studies have shown that Wall Street is a primary driver of the climate emergency. The world's 60 largest banks have poured more than $3.8 trillion into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015.
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Brooklyn Center Police use tear gas on crowd 15 minutes after its use was banned
Apr 16, 2021 03:58The Brooklyn Center Police passed an ordinance banning tear gas and other crowd control tactics, but it was not long before they ended up breaking their own rules.