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California sea lions stricken by toxic red tide crisis
September 26, 2022More than 60 California sea lions have washed up disoriented on the beaches of Southern California since mid-August.
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Progressive religious leaders push lawmakers on voting rights, raising wages
September 26, 2022They lay out their alternative to the hatred, racism, white supremacy, and theocracy pushed by the religious right in America.
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Hurricane Fiona a threat to Puerto Rico’s fragile recovery
September 23, 2022Hurricane Fiona slammed into Puerto Rico Sunday afternoon, causing widespread destruction.
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D.C.-area airport workers demand better health care, pay, job protections
September 23, 2022Benjamin Swartz has epilepsy. Sometimes it’s landed him in the hospital. It also leaves him on thin ice with the aircraft cabin cleaning contractor he toils for.
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Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires
September 23, 2022Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.
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