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The Dawn of a New Cold WarThe Intercept
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What American Doctors Saw in GazaThe Intercept
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The Mossad Suffers a Crushing Defeat Entirely of Its Own MakingThe Intercept
There’s No Good Reason Why Hakeem Jeffries Should Work With Jared KushnerMother Jones
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Oxford and Cambridge Have Always Been RacistThe Nation
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A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs.
Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year.
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House.
This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader.
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Coach Richardson required his teen players to hug him after practice, former players said, sometimes pulling girls down onto his lap and telling them, “I love you.”
He also kept a bed in a back room at the gym, purportedly for player recovery.
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