Right about now, within a shrub in southern Texas, a ruby-crowned kinglet twitches to face northward. In a few months, guided by forces neither the kinglet nor human biologists fully understand, the thumb-size songbird will leap into the air and head for Alaska, where it was born. The bird’s ancestors — and billions like them […]
“Americans: We just want higher wages and lower costs. Republicans: We are going to take away your healthcare.” Some Democratic lawmakers and other critics of congressional Republicans on Friday pointed to a document obtained by Politico as just the latest evidence that the looming GOP trifecta at the federal level poses a threat to working families nationwide. “Americans: We […]
“Donald Trump will have no penalty for criminal wrongdoing, which is an affront to accountability and to a system where no one is above the law, though the judge had little alternative,” said one ethics expert. After being convicted of 34 felonies in New York last year, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday received an unconditional discharge during a sentencing hearing […]
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