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Solitary strike: Texas prisoners refuse food to protest harsh confinement practices
January 11, 2023Hundreds of prisoners may participate in the protest beginning Tuesday, the first day of the state’s legislative session. Texas often keeps prisoners in solitary confinement for years or decades.
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Ahead of major strike, Amazon closes three U.K. warehouses, endangering 1,200 jobs
January 11, 2023Retail giant promises jobs at other facilities, but workers can’t just move their whole life chasing another warehouse.
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House approves revenge panel to settle Trump scores and defend insurrectionists
January 11, 2023All Republicans, including so-called “moderate” ones, get on board with Jim Jordan’s campaign to stop investigations of those behind the coup plot and probe Biden
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Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR
January 11, 2023I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to grow up in the USSR.
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Farm Workforce Modernization Act’s failure reveals division in immigrant rights movement
January 11, 2023The United Farm Workers saw it as a way to win legal immigration status for undocumented field laborers.
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