By Paul J. Weber / Associated Press —
The White House wants the courts to uphold voter ID restrictions in Texas that opponents call discriminatory.
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
Climate change, left unchecked, is expected to make the U.S. poorer and more unequal. (Pictured: A house in New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.)
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By Henry Giroux / Alternet —
The right’s politics are as vicious as ever, but they also present a unique opportunity.
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By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams —
In a speech at the site of the Warsaw Uprising Monument on Thursday, the president proclaimed that “the fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.”
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By Mel Gurtov —
A potentially catastrophic endgame is playing out between bellicose North Korea and the pugnacious U.S. regime.
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Environment minister Nicolas Hulot (pictured) announces the decision as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate accord.
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By Dilip Hiro / TomDispatch —
President Trump’s public alignment with Saudi Arabian King Salman in his anti-Iran campaign could engulf the Middle East in a new global crisis.
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By The Associated Press —
The home crafts chain imported more than 5,500 Iraqi artifacts that were intentionally mislabeled, federal prosecutors say.
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By Derek Kravitz and Cezary Podkul / ProPublica, and Will Parker / The Real Deal —
Last year, then-candidate Trump sold two condos at a steep discount to his son Eric (pictured). But he doesn’t appear to be on the hook for gift taxes.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
More than a third of German electricity this year has come from wind, solar, biomass and hydro—but the country still has a long way to go when it comes to clean energy.
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan —
Kris Kobach, Kansas’ anti-immigrant secretary of state, is the operational leader of the president’s newly launched commission to investigate fraudulent voting.
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By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams —
A new report reveals that public financing by the world’s wealthiest governments belies their nations’ stated commitments to the Paris climate goals.
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By Foster Klug and Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press —
Analysts say Kim’s government believes nuclear weapons are key to its own survival and could be used to wrest concessions from the United States.
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By Ray McGovern / Consortiumnews —
Global power is being shifted by Sino-Russian rapprochement, a development largely caused by American actions.
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