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Rio Tinto's CEO and two senior executives will be replaced after an investor revolt forced the board to escalate its response to the Aboriginal cave blast crisis. 
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The economic recovery measure Republicans presented on Tuesday is a fraction of the size of their original offer and was immediately dismissed by Democrats as inadequate.
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President Donald Trump accused the top brass of the Department of Defense of needlessly waging wars to boost the profits of defense contractors during a Labor Day press conference held at the White House.
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Documents obtained through a public records request showed the degree to which XPO Logistics, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s former employer, is intertwined with the agency he now oversees.
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The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
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Beneficiaries of the PPP included a lettuce farming venture backed by Trump’s son, Kushner companies, and a dentist who golfs with the president. The figures were released after a lawsuit by several news organizations, including ProPublica.
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The social media giant received at least two complaints detailing the violent comments on the group’s Facebook page.
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A nonprofit group tied to influential conservatives who worked closely with President Donald Trump to elevate two Supreme Court justices is urging key states to clean up their voting rolls -- a practice voting-rights groups and Democrats argue seeks to "purge" legitimate voters.
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CHICAGO — Englewood, on this city’s South Side, is one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. It is a district where the median household income of $20,991 is more than 60 percent lower than the city median.
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Duke Energy is urging state regulators to approve rate increases at its two North Carolina electric utilities, including money to pay for cleanups of...
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That the Interior Department has now blessed oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge comes as no surprise. It was a foregone conclusion once Lisa Murkowski, in 2017, persuaded her Senate colleagues to authorize drilling in the refuge as part of a tax bill, ending protections that have been in place since the Eisenhower administration.
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I watched the Democratic convention without a Republican lens and found an embrace of justice and diversity. Trump's convention will be a contrast.
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A panel of MSNBC commentators and political analysts couldn’t help but ridicule President Donald Trump for his new claim that he has done more in his first term than he promised, touting the “Space Force.”
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A panel of three federal judges said Thursday that President Trump’s order to exclude people in the country illegally when redrawing congressional districts.
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President Donald Trump traveled to battleground Florida Tuesday for an event touting his environmental accomplishments, even as his administration has worked extensively to dismantle key environmental protections.
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Environmentalists fear changing Kenya’s resolve would lead to all of Africa becoming a plastics dumping ground
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The Congressional Budget Office released an updated budget outlook, including the pandemic’s impact on the economy.
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Who got sold out? We got sold out.
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A moratorium on oil leasing in part of the Gulf of Mexico is set to expire. What would Trump or Biden do?
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Former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney sold up to $550,000 in securities the same day that his boss declared that the “economy is doing fantastically.”
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No sane human being believes Trump and his corrupt administration care about law and order; they care about frightening white people.
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Companies are eager to mine the deep ocean for valuable mineral deposits. But scientists are concerned about impacts on sea life, including creatures that haven't even been discovered yet.
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In Texas, dry years reveal a momentous confrontation as residents encounter the menacing consequence of runaway growth.
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Tucked at the bottom of the long indictment against Bannon, prosecutors say they want to seize the assets of his nonprofit Citizens of the American Republic, shedding more light on the secretive political group’s finances.
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In a new escalation of the trade war with China, the President has proposed new tax incentives to get U.S. manufacturers, notably including automakers like General Motors, to bring back jobs.
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After former Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered the final report for the Russia investigation in 2019, he noted that the U.S. Department of Justice has a longstanding policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
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