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Gov. Cuomo: HHS Won't Reveal Locations Of Migrant Children

House GOP Tries To Silence Audio Of Imprisoned Children Weeping
Perjury? Trump Signed False Tax Returns At Least 4 Times
Mueller Concerned Over Potential Jury Taint In Manafort Trial
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Several States Purchasing Insecure Electronic Voting Systems

By Steven Rosenfeld
For 6 Year-Old Immigrant Girl, Memorized Phone Number Was Lifeline

By Ginger Thompson
Navy Plans 'Austere' Detention Camps To Hold At Least 100,000 Migrants

By Cody Fenwick
I'm Salvadoran And Watching Fox News This Week Is Unbearable

By Cristina Lopez G.

Top News

Trump Admits North Korea Is Still A Nuclear Threat
Trump said North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat. Now he's telling Congress the complete opposite.
By Oliver Willis

Trump Administration Has No Plan To Reunite Immigrant Families
"It is shockingly difficult" to find and return children to the immigrant families separated at the border, said a Washington Post reporter.
By Cody Fenwick

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Trump Probe Began With Russian Messages Intercepted By NSA
By Joe Conason

Compare Fox And North Korean Broadcasts (And Shudder)
The Daily Show Twitter account released a video comparing content from Fox's news channels to North Korean state propaganda.
By Chris Sosa
Family Separations Boost Public Support For Immigrants
Not only have recent national polls shown two-thirds of Americans oppose separating families, the policy has also proven unpopular in states that have key midterms races this fall.
By Alternet
Suddenly, GOP Is In Trouble In Reddest State
Republicans are struggling in a West Virginia district they won by 50 points in 2016.
By Eric Boehlert
Fox News: Other Networks Should Promote Trump Just Like We Do
The Trump administration's unofficial propaganda arm inched one step closer to becoming state media on Wednesday night.
By Caroline Orr
Cohen Resigns From RNC As He Reportedly Prepares To Flip
As CNN reports, Cohen has told friends he’s “willing to give investigators information on President Trump.”
By Elizabeth Preza
'Family Advocate' Ivanka Finally Says A Few Absurd Words About Immigrant Families
Her statement made no sense — the president and his team unleashed this cruel policy on the country, so thanking him for withdrawing it is ridiculous.
By Cody Fenwick

Money

Why Higher Techie Incomes May Bring Lower Quality Of Life
With the prosperity came a crisis of homelessness and crushing housing prices for those with moderate incomes.
By Froma Harrop
Freeing Predators To Bilk Little People Hurts Everyone
The mortgages looked like easy money but were actually booby-trapped contracts loaded with high fees and exploding interest charges. They often transformed what could have been manageable setbacks into foreclosures.
By Froma Harrop
Nobel-Winning Doctors' Group Denounces Trump Pharma Plan
The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders issued a stinging rebuke of Trump's plan to address prescription drug costs by pandering to the pharmaceutical industry.
By Caroline Orr

Health

Republicans Waging Guerrilla War On American Health Care
Indeed, the Justice Department declined to defend the federal law in a suit brought by states against the provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
By Terry H. Schwadron
Doctors Demand Broad New Gun Regulation To Stem Killings
In the face of Republican inaction, the American Medical Association endorses a common-sense agenda to prevent gun violence.
By Eric Boehlert
Millionaire Paul Ryan Bombs With 'Joke' About Entitlements
Ryan's entire career is basically a bad joke at the expense of working Americans.
By Tommy Christopher

Lifestyle

#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah On Trump Blowing Up Our Money In Outer Space
By Kurt Boyer
Shady Cambridge Analytica Operatives Hired For Trump Campaign 2020
Former operatives from Cambridge Analytica, the shady data firm Trump used to suppress votes and run racist ads, are secretly working with his re-election campaign.
By Oliver Willis
Higher Prices, Fewer Voices: Big Telecoms Devour The Internet
Within days Trump promoted a Federal Trade Commission member, Ajit Pai, to chairman. The former Verizon lawyer was first appointed by Former President Barack Obama.
By David Cay Johnston

Endorse This

#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah On Trump Blowing Up Our Money In Outer Space

By Kurt Boyer

#EndorseThis: Jimmy Dore Hammers "Bee Word" Laura Ingraham On Border Brutality

By Kurt Boyer

#EndorseThis: Jordan Klepper Thinks Pro-Family Separation Trumpists Are In Flatland

By Kurt Boyer

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: Alex Jones Makes Incoherent Case For White Reparations

Eclipse apocalypse, white reparations, and a journalism crash course from a conspiracist blogger. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

By Brendan Gauthier

This Week In Crazy: David Crosby Faces Fire, Fury From Ted Nugent

Statue fetishists, blubbering neo-Nazis, and Cat Fight Fever. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

By Brendan Gauthier

This Week In Crazy: Trump's God-Given Mission To Nuke North Korea

Nuclear holy war, Chi-Raqi occupation, and Al Gore's "big ugly ass." Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

By Brendan Gauthier

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NATIONAL

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MONEY

Why Higher Techie Incomes May Bring Lower Quality Of Life
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Freeing Predators To Bilk Little People Hurts Everyone
Nobel-Winning Doctors' Group Denounces Trump Pharma Plan
LIFESTYLE

#EndorseThis: Jimmy Kimmel Sticks It To Roseanne For Getting Kicked Off TV
By Kurt Boyer

#EndorseThis: Jon Stewart Returns To Troll Colbert
#EndorseThis: John Oliver Scolds The Queen Alone In Royal Wedding Rant

WORLD

The Needless Cruelty Of Trump's Border Policy
By Steve Chapman

UN Official Blasts Trump's Human Rights Violations At Border
#EndorseThis: John Oliver Breaks China With Devastating Xi Jinping Takedown
HEALTH

Republicans Waging Guerrilla War On American Health Care
By Terry H. Schwadron

Doctors Demand Broad New Gun Regulation To Stem Killings
Millionaire Paul Ryan Bombs With 'Joke' About Entitlements
VIDEO

#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah On Trump Blowing Up Our Money In Outer Space
By Kurt Boyer

#EndorseThis: Jimmy Dore Hammers "Bee Word" Laura Ingraham On Border Brutality
#EndorseThis: Jordan Klepper Thinks Pro-Family Separation Trumpists Are In Flatland

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