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“We need to shift our priorities now, from war to human needs. And in the case of Korea, a peace agreement would actually allow all parties to do that.”

In his February 19 Munich Security Conference speech, President Joe Biden seemed to assume the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, whose tentacles extend far beyond the North Atlantic, was doing fine before Donald Trump. That was his first mistake.

After organizing for three years, Lamont and Arvin, two rural communities in the heart of California’s oilfields have won a direct say in reducing the air pollution from oil, gas and agriculture production, which is some of the worst in the state.

"Our Constitution is clear that it is Congress, not the president, who has the authority to declare war," the senator asserted.

Today’s UK decision is doubly consequential: the court clarifies drivers’ employment status and the time for which they must be compensated.

California poet Fred Norman offers a beautiful elegy to Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Sen. Bernie Sanders also denounced the guidance, lamenting that "archaic and undemocratic rules of the Senate" are now standing in the way of ending "starvation wages in this country."