Bernie Sanders Proposes Taxing Income Over $1 Billion At 100% And Urges It’s Time To Make ‘Greedy Billionaires’ Pay Their Fair Share
Bernie Sanders is calling for America’s wealthiest to pay a 100% tax on income above $1 billion. In a 2023 interview on HBO, Sanders explained his stance: “You may disagree…
Billionaire’s Wealth Has Skyrocketed Since Trump Won—And the GOP Wants to Make Them Even Richer
The real winners of the 2024 election are America’s billionaires. That’s according to a new analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness, which lays out the Republican plan to continue the…
The Daughters of Malcolm X Sue the CIA, FBI and NYPD Over the Civil Rights Leader’s Assassination
Three daughters of Malcolm X have filed a $100 million lawsuit accusing the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of…
Top Senate Democrat Said Nominees Show Trump Will ‘Weaponize the Justice Department to Seek Vengeance’
The outgoing Democratic chair of the Senate judiciary committee Dick Durbin warned that Donald Trump’s latest appointees to top Justice Department and other cabinet positions are a clear sign that…
Big Oil Dishes Out Record $54.2 Million to Boost GOP Candidates
The investigative news organization Sludge has reported that the fossil fuel industry has funneled a record amount of money into the election cycle using a pair of super PACs whose…
40 Countries ‘Strongly Condemn’ Israel’s ‘Deliberate’ Attacks on UN Peacekeepers
Forty countries contributing to the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon condemned Israel’s recent attacks on UN peacekeepers, which have wounded at least 5 people. Israel’s recent attacks have included the…
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Over $9 Million for Partnerships to Recover North Atlantic Right Whales
Today, NOAA Fisheries announced over $9 million from Inflation Reduction Act funds to support strategic partnerships aimed at improving fishing gear and population monitoring that will help the recovery of…
Kamala Harris Will Not Ban Fracking if She Wins White House, Campaign Says
Kamala Harris will not seek to ban fracking if she becomes US president, campaign officials have confirmed, with the de facto Democratic nominee expected to focus instead on aggressively promoting…
Undocumented Immigrants Pay Higher Tax Rates Than Richest 1%
Undocumented immigrants in the United States in 2022 paid higher state and local tax rates than the top 1% of households in the vast majority of states, according to a…