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The new order effectively allows police to get away with murder. And that’s just the beginning.

ICE is reading from an old textbook

The US invasion of Vietnam was a catastrophe for the Vietnamese people, resulting in millions of deaths. Fifty years ago today, the US-backed regime finally collapsed as North Vietnamese forces took control of Saigon.

From criticism of mass deportations to hilarious roasts of the president, May 1 was a nationwide show of art-filled resistance against the Trump administration.

Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies. Just compensation for victims of Agent Orange is a moral imperative.

The scale of killing in Gaza is almost impossible to track as the Israeli military bombs and starves Palestinian civilians with impunity.

This refusal to learn is the shadow of the Vietnam War that hangs over us now as our nation appears to be losing its soul and the Trump regime demonstrates not only how to ignore history but how to erase it, as if it’s an easily edited website.

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A judge has blocked a key part of the president’s attempt to rewrite election rules. “Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States — not the President — with the authority to regulate federal elections.”

In the U.S.—and across much of the world—fertility rates are falling, and populations are projected to shrink. People are having fewer children because the system makes it too hard, too risky, and too expensive.