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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A group of twelve US lawmakers in a letter intensified pressure on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to skip a major investment conference in Saudi Arabia amid the probe into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Earlier in the…
Republicans have removed all doubt: When it comes to the federal deficit, the problem is Medicare and Social Security — not their own tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. Fresh off the news that the deficit is increasing under…
Progressive social media activism movements that urge consumers to use their spending power to influence politics have taken off: They’e gotten hundreds of companies to stop advertising on sites such as Breitbart, pushed companies to drop Ivanka Trump’s products, and…
If Republicans lose control of the House, President Donald Trump wants to be clear: It’s not his fault. Trump said he would not bear any personal responsibility for a poor showing from Republicans in the 2018 midterms, he said in…
In Puerto Rico’s rainforest, scientists have observed an astounding loss of life at the very base of the food web. It’s the insects. As an alarming new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences outlines, between 1976 and…
The Trump administration is threatening to cut off aid to the government of Honduras — and possibly Guatemala and El Salvador as well — if a caravan of as many as 4,000 Honduran migrants, which has already crossed into Guatemala,…
