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In an interview with VTDigger on Wednesday afternoon, the independent senator from Vermont said he was opposed to providing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government ‘money with no strings attached.’

New research shows widening gaps between red and blue states in life expectancy.

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Israel’s insistence on “destroying Hamas” by causing mass civilian casualties and dispossession in Gaza is rooted in this longer-held desire to make “the Palestinian question” disappear.

The only way to steer American democracy to safety is to wrest money out of the claws of the wealthiest elites, who now control finances rivaling the economies of whole nations.

Big tech companies are funneling money through a science nonprofit to help pay the salaries of AI staffers in Congress — and it’s just one example of the increasing influence outside-funded fellows are exerting on tech policy in Washington.

Analysis of BlueLeaks trove also shows police received training on domestic ‘Muslim extremists’ from pro-Israel groups

Israel is deploying vastly disproportionate force in Gaza, in keeping with an earlier UN fact-finding report that concluded that the Israeli strategy had been “designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population.” It will fail. Again.

Nearly three years ago, Congress gave Israel a pass to stockpile precision-guided bombs "without regard to annual limits." An inside source confirms that even more have been transferred since October 7.

Antonio Guterres warned of a deepening ‘catastrophe’ in Gaza as he called on the Security Council to act.