GOP’s Corporate Funders Target Minnesota Attorney General
ICE resistance, antitrust enforcement, and a state fraud scandal fuel attacks on Keith Ellison.
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Turning Point rests its reputation on Andy Biggs’ race. It’s not looking good.
The group founded by the late Charlie Kirk has thrown big money into the race to boost the last candidate Kirk endorsed before he was killed last year.
McMahon to Spend $43K of Taxpayer Money on Furniture While Gutting Ed Department
This comes as the education secretary plans to remove the Federal Student Aid office from the Department of Education.
280,000+ Yemenis displaced by war; El Salvador surges more troops to Haiti; Russian drone strike kills 14
Drop Site Daily: October 29, 2026
Albania: opposition MPs disrupt parliament with smoke flares
Opposition MPs disrupted a parliamentary session in Albania by brandishing smoke flares and displaying photographs of injured protesters. They accused police of using violence against demonstrators demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's…
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Championing justice for journalists: The Impunity Action List
When Ján Kuciak, an investigative journalist who exposed corruption and tax fraud, was murdered alongside his fiancee in Slovakia in 2018, a national outcry ensued with 65,000 people hitting the streets and the subsequent ouster of the…
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Arab Parties Could Determine Next Israeli Prime Minister as Election Produces No Clear Winner, Israel Bombs Gaza Ministry as Settlers Attack Palestinians and Activists in West Bank, City of Cambridge, MA, Votes to Divest from Businesses…
Israel: protesters demand Arab-Jewish unity government after election
Protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv to demand a government bringing together Jewish and Arab parties. With Israel's election producing no clear winner, police moved in to disperse activists blocking traffic.
Canada’s ‘Responsible’ Data Centre Principles Have a Credibility Problem
Would you trust a detox facility that offers a minibar in every room? How about a climate course sponsored by ExxonMobil? If not, you might direct the same incredulity towards Canada’s recently unveiled Responsible Data Centre Development…
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AI Tried to Buy the Midterms — Then the Lobby Learned Everyone Hates AI
Facing bipartisan backlash and a decaying reputation, AI super PACs are changing tactics. We tracked their election spending so far. The post AI Tried to Buy the Midterms — Then the Lobby Learned Everyone Hates AI appeared first on The…
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AIPAC Isn’t Retreating. Here’s How It’s Already Shaping the Next Congress.
A new project by The Intercept reveals the hundreds of candidates still taking the pro-Israel lobby’s cash, and how AIPAC is obscuring its spending. The post AIPAC Isn’t Retreating. Here’s How It’s Already Shaping the Next Congress…
Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In
The post Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In appeared first on ProPublica.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Same Old but Worse in Israel
If there is one nation in the world that needs more than any other to find a new direction it is “the Jewish state.” But if there is one more committed to its current path it is the Jewish state.…Read more →
El-Sayed’s allies fear Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks are reaching undecided voters
After Trump called him a “jihadist,” Abdul El-Sayed brushed off the “desperate, bad faith attacks”
“Peak Greenwashing”: Two Bills in Congress Endorse Misleading Recycling Claims
The post “Peak Greenwashing”: Two Bills in Congress Endorse Misleading Recycling Claims appeared first on ProPublica.
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Cambodia: Politically connected security companies enabled slavery and rape in scamming compounds
Cambodian private security companies connected to the country’s military, police and powerful business networks have helped sustain a scamming industry built on trafficking, forced labour, torture and slavery, Amnesty International said in…
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Sri Lanka: Organized Crime Bill Violates Rights Standards
Click to expand Image A police anti-riot unit in Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 30, 2024. © 2024 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via AP Photo (New York) – The Sri Lankan government’s Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill, submitted to parliament…
Tom Tiffany, GOP Candidate for WI Governor, Refuses to Sign Pro-Democracy Pledge
Among other items, the pledge asked candidates to “refrain from knowingly propagating falsehoods” about elections.
Ahead of Midterms, Tenants Call Trump’s Housing Policy a “Catastrophic Failure”
Housing justice advocates say new policy proposals would empower landlords while squeezing already struggling tenants.
98 Percent of Trump’s Refugee Admissions Have Been White South Africans
The openly white supremacist policy is poised to continue through 2027, the administration has said.
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How journalists can stay safe–and how we can protect America’s press–on midterm Election Day and beyond
The 2026 U.S. midterm elections will take place next week amid a constant drumbeat of press freedom violations, ceaseless vitriol against journalists from the Trump administration, and direct threats to the press across the United States…
Metro Times Defends the Truth in an Era of Lies
Establishment corporate media have to have the courage to say that the Earth is round, the sky is blue and the Earth rotates around the Sun.
Company Linked to Darline Graham’s Husband Was Sanctioned for Arming Russia Against Ukraine
The friction between Graham’s stated politics and her husband’s career, it turns out, goes significantly further than his company’s reliance on Chinese manufacturing.
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Court Should Curb Abuse of Grand Jury Subpoenas Targeting Social Media Users
A federal appeals court should curb the government’s abuse of grand jury subpoenas to unmask social media users who criticize lawless immigration enforcement. That is the message from the ACLU, EFF, and other civil liberties and trade…