North Carolina Republican in contentious race owes nearly $35K for absentee ballot work
By The campaign of a North Carolina Republican candidate locked in a contentious election battle owes more than $34,000 in connection with absentee ballot and voter turnout operations, according to new filings. Mark HarrisMark HarrisTrump sparks debate over merits of voting by mail The Hill’s Campaign Report: Debate over mail-in voting heats up Bevin says he lost because […]
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Vikings boast three champions at Dakota Wesleyan Open
MITCHELL, S.D. – Augustana had three individual champions at the Dakota Wesleyan Open on Saturday afternoon in Mitchell, S.D. TJ North took the crown at 125 pounds while Jeremiah Peterson won the 133-pound bracket and Bradyn Neises took home the title at 165 pounds. Michael Lowman (285 pounds) picked up third-place finishes for the Vikings. […]
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Group Demands to Know: Who at Trump's EPA Decided to Slash Funds Used to Protect Children From Toxic Poisoning?
Exactly what led President Donald Trump’s EPA to stop funding research centers tasked with probing environmental health threats to children? One advocacy organization, the Environmental Working Group (EWG), wants answers. EWG said in a press statement Wednesday that it filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain documents, including electronic records and minutes of […]
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Sunrise Movement Vows to "Turn Up the Heat on Biden" as New Survey Details 2020 Dems' Climate Policies
Four of the 23 Democratic presidential hopefuls did not participate in the Washington Post‘s new survey on climate policy, “but Joe Biden remains the biggest enigma of them all,” according to an analysis the newspaper published Monday as activists vowed to increase pressure on Biden to back bold plans to combat the global crisis. “We’re […]
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Because 'BP Fueling Climate Emergency': Greenpeace Blockades London HQ With Massive Metal Containers
In an effort to pressure the multinational fossil fuel giant BP to stop oil and gas exploration that is “fueling a climate emergency,” Greenpeace activists early Monday blockaded the company’s London headquarters with massive metal containers weighing several tons each. According to The Guardian, two Greenpeace activists are “encased in each of the five containers […]
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Labeled 'No Vacation Nation,' US Still Lags Behind Other Wealthy Countries in Giving Workers Paid Holidays
Just ahead of Memorial Day, a new report out Wednesday reveals that workers in the U.S. continue to lag far behind those in other wealthy countries when it comes to paid vacation and holidays. The report—titled “No Vacation Nation, Revised” (pdf) and published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)—updates the center’s two […]
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Canada's Plan to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Make Corporations Responsible for Waste Welcomed as 'Step in the Right Direction'
Environmental campaigners on Monday welcomed the Canadian government’s new plan to ban certain single-use plastics as early as 2021 and work with provinces and territories to make corporations responsible for their plastic waste. “Ultimately Canada needs to move towards phasing out all non-essential plastics if we are going to truly reduce the awful plastic legacy […]
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Wyden Bill to Strip Tax Breaks From Private Prison Industry Profiting From Child Detentions
President Donald Trump’s administration continues to detain migrants at the southern border in conditions that one expert believes approximate concentration camps, but those that profit off of migrant detentions may find the spigot of government cash isn’t a renewable resource. A bill proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Thursday would strip private prisons of […]
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'Our Climate Is Breaking Down. Business As Usual Is Over': Campaigners Interrupt Televised Speech of UK Treasury Official
Approximately 40 climate campaigners on Thursday night “gate-crashed” a government-sponsored dinner in the United Kingdom just as a top U.K. official in the Tory government delivered a speech on live television to the country about the nation’s economic health. “The real bottom line, the priority that needs to come before all others, is not profit, […]
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'This Is the Horrendous Truth': Images of Father and Daughter Who Drowned Seeking Refuge in US Spark Sorrow and Outrage
A horrifying and heartbreaking series of photographs of a father and his young daughter from El Salvador who drowned while attempting to seek asylum in the United States—similar to an image of a young Syrian boy, a refugee, whose lifeless body washed ashore in Turkey in 2015—is stirring sorrow and outrage overnight, much of it […]
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