Americans for Prosperity, a pro-corporate group, wants employees to return to work despite desperate pleas from public health officials to the contrary.
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On MSNBC Saturday, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold revealed the disconnect between what President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is demanding of his tenants, and what he is asking for from his creditors. 
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ripped into President Donald Trump’s continued bungling of the coronavirus crisis, and begged him to use his executive powers to help contain the pandemic. The “Morning Joe” co-hosts called for him to order more ventilators, personal protective equipment and other necessary items as hundreds die every day from COVID-19 […]
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If you think it's bad now, just wait until Trump cuts Social Security & Medicare. It's only a matter of time.
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Graham and three other GOP senators said they would oppose the $2 trillion bill unless their concerns were addressed.
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The coronavirus outbreak is exposing the vast differences between how the rich and poor live in America in 2020.
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"As the coronavirus has spread in the US, celebrities like Kris Jenner and NBA players have gotten tested quickly before they have symptoms, likely using private labs and concierge doctors. Meanwhile, shortages have made it difficult and time-intensive for most Americans to get tested." - Kate Taylor | Business Insider (France)
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Two Republican senators have admitted in public filings to having sold stock just before the crash of the stock market. The first was Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC). Hours later, The Daily Beast reported interim Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA).
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“Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) reported the first sale of stock jointly owned by her and her husband on January 24, the very day that her committee, the Senate Health Committee, hosted a private, all-Senators briefing from administration officials, including the CDC Director and Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, on the coronavirus,” The Beast noted.
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German government tries to fight off aggressive takeover bid by US, say reports
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"According to According to an anonymous source quoted in the newspaper, Trump was doing everything to secure a vaccine against the coronavirus for the US, “but for the US only”." - Philip Oltermann in Berlin.
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Absolute bullsh*t. With the amount Jeff Bezos makes in one day, he could shut stores down and pay employees to stay safe.”
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"When progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders say “now is the time for solidarity” amid the coronavirus outbreak, they likely do not mean that employees of Whole Foods—owned by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos—should be asked to give their own accrued paid sick days to their co-workers who have either contracted the deadly virus or been forced to take time out of work because of what is now a global pandemic.
But that is exactly what executives with the grocery chain are asking its employers to do, even though Bezos’ could effectively give them unlimited paid sick leave during the current national emergency without barely a scratch in his bank account." - Common Dreams
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President Trump’s preoccupation with his own image amid the spread of the coronavirus is “putting lives at risk” and Vice President Pence is only “enabling” him, Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee told Salon in an interview this week.
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This headline is possible only because Donald Trump is as self-absorbed as a sponge.
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During a Fox News town hall Thursday night, President Donald Trump finally admitted what many have long feared — that he plans to push for serious cuts to entitlements, which includes Social Security and Medicare.
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Evidence from our analysis suggests that, on average, districts experiencing unconventional drilling had lower per-pupil revenues, locally raised per-pupil...
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Fracking isn't paying off as was promised in Pennsylvania, but it can make people sick in ways no one ever dreamed possible.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Former University of Texas men’s tennis coach Michael Center was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for accepting $100,000 in 2015 to help the son of a Silicon Valley venture capitalist get into the school by falsely designating him as a skilled athlete worthy of a scholarship...
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GOP super PAC in the Senate race in North Carolina is backed by "dark money." Democrats are using a super PAC that won't disclose donors until after 3/3.
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Stories about dark money and dark money groups are more and more common, the closer we get to Election Day.
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President Trump wanted to save the cruise industry but the $2-trillion coronavirus stimulus package bill won't help.
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"Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian have headquarters in the U.S. but most of the ships are registered in Panama, Bermuda or elsewhere and are staffed with employees hired outside of the U.S. to avoid paying U.S. taxes and abiding by U.S. employment rules." - Hugo Martin | LATimes.com
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Democrats have tried to prevent Trump from receiving taxpayer money at his businesses for three years. This week, they finally scored a small victory.
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In a stunning statement President Donald Trump admitted his motivation in re-opening the country is to help not the American people but his re-election chances.In a mind-blowing tweet the president blasted the “LameStream Media” for what he claimed is “trying to get me to keep our Country closed ...
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On Fox News Tuesday, commentator Brit Hume leaned into the idea suggested by Texas Lt. Gov.Dan Patrick that the elderly should be willing to sacrifice themselves to coronavirus so younger people can go work and boost the stock market, telling host Tucker Carlson that such an idea was an “entirely reasonable."
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"On Fox News Tuesday, commentator Brit Hume leaned into the idea suggested by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick that the elderly should be willing to sacrifice themselves to coronavirus so younger people can go work and boost the stock market, telling host Tucker Carlson that such an idea was an “entirely reasonable viewpoint." - Matthew Chapman | Raw Story
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As long as lawmakers are allowed to trade individual stocks, disaster profiteering is always a risk.
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A secret recording of remarks Sen. Richard Burr made to a group on Feb. 27 show he expected the COVID-19 outbreak to be far more serious than the Trump administration was saying.
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"According to a secret recording obtained by NPR, Burr had a dire message. Even as President Trump was downplaying the threat from the coronavirus that had just arrived in the U.S., the senator warned that the virus was going to spread rapidly, perhaps even on the scale of the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918." - The Editorial Board | Charlotte Observer
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The Kushner family is trying to cash in on the pandemic that could kill millions of us. Oscar Health, the health insurance company co-founded by Jared Kushner’s younger brother, announced Friday that it has launched a testing center locator for COVID-19 in the United States...
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President Donald Trump spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday about a myriad of issues and rambling insults about Democrats. But one comment left some alleging the president was being reckless with the facts.
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"The World Health Organization has said that the fatality rate for the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is between 3-4 percent. Recent specific estimations put it at 3.4 percent. However, the president said that it’s all fake news." - Sarah K. Burris | Raw Story
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The United States was warned last year that a pandemic could lead to serious problems if President Donald Trump and his administration didn’t take public health readiness more seriously.Stanford lecturer Brett McGurk cited a document from the office the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’...
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Trump used his presidential tour of four states for profit by staying every night at his Las Vegas Trump Hotel. He claimed the Secret Service planned it.
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"The public deserves to know if Trump is once again lying about the Secret Service’s role in funnelling taxpayer dollars toward one of his businesses." - Citizens For Ethics in Washington (CREW).
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Collins was the deciding vote in 2010 against the DISCLOSE Act, which would have required transparency for political ads.
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The oil and gas industry has had a far worse impact on the climate than previously believed, according to a study indicating that human emissions of fossil methane have been underestimated by up to 40%.
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“This indicates that the fossil fuel sector has a much more polluting impact beyond being responsible for the overwhelming majority of carbon dioxide emissions. This is worrying and overall bad news,” said Dr Joeri Rogelj, a climate change lecturer at the Grantham Institute.
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