Articles from September 2020

‘Top Chef’ contestant Aaron Grissom dead at 34

'Groundbreaking': Healthcare Providers and Residents Celebrate as For-Profit Hospital Set to Be Returned to California Community

Nurses, doctors, and residents of California’s Watsonville and Pajaro Valley are celebrating a decision that will restore a local hospital to a nonprofit community facility more than two decades after it was sold to a…

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'Outrageous': Lindsey Graham Breaks Senate Rules to Advance Sweeping Anti-Asylum Bill

Senate Democrats and progressive advocacy groups accused Sen. Lindsey Graham of breaking Judiciary Committee rules Thursday after the South Carolina Republican forced a vote to advance his “dangerous and immoral” anti-asylum legislation. The bill, titled…

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Brazil's Bolsonaro—Outspoken Proponent of Deforestation—Denounced as 'Sick' and 'Pathetic' for Blaming Amazon Forest Fires on NGOs

The Amazon rain forest—the lungs of the world—have been on fire for several weeks, and Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro suggested Wednesday, without evidence, that the fires were started by non-governmental organizations. “Maybe—I am not…

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Showing Size and Diversity of Sanders' Grassroots Army, #MyBernieStory Goes Viral on Social Media

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign asked volunteers and supporters to take to social media on Monday and share their personal reasons for supporting the senator’s White House bid—accompanied by the hashtag #MyBernieStory—in an innovative…

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Trump Rollback of Key EPA Water Protection Rule Denounced as 'Callous' and 'Immoral' Giveaway to Big Polluters

Environmental and public health advocates blasted the Trump administration Thursday for finalizing its rollback of an Obama-era regulation designed to curb the pollution of waterways nationwide. “Fifty years after the Cuyahoga River fire that inspired…

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