Inspired by Sen. Bernie Sanders’s speech at the California Democratic Convention in California—in which the 2020 contender took a thinly veiled shot at fellow White House hopeful Joe Biden’s centrist policy approach—progressives made the Twitter hashtag #NoMiddleGround go viral on Sunday in an effort to make clear that there can be no compromises when it…

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For Republican Jim Hagedorn, the fourth time was the charm. Hagedorn, a former Treasury Department official, defeated Democrat Dan Feehan in Minnesota’s 1st District on Tuesday to replace outgoing Rep. Tim WalzTimothy (Tim) James WalzAuthorities investigating disruptions of police radios, networks during protests: report Christopher Columbus statue toppled outside Minnesota Capitol Manufacturing company leaving Minneapolis because it…

Florida’s Palm Beach County was reportedly forced to restart its recount of about 175,000 early votes after its voting machines overheated.  The supervisor of elections, Susan Bucher, told The Miami Herald on Tuesday that the county’s ballot-counting machines overheated and provided incorrect totals.  ADVERTISEMENT The elections department has flown in mechanics to repair the decade-old machine,…

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The White House announced Wednesday it will not join a global initiative, launched in the wake of a massacre in New Zealand two months ago, to tackle racist and extremist online content. “By not standing alongside other world leaders to fight hate,” said the Southern Poverty Law Center in response, “President Trump has shown once…

The New York legislature passed a bill last month that would make President Donald Trump’s state tax returns available to the House Ways and Means Committee upon request, but the committee’s Democratic chairman Richard Neal has reportedly made clear that he has no plans to ask for the documents. According to Bloomberg, Neal fears that…

The head of the world’s largest trade union confederation has told workers in Australia—even as many mining members clamor for job security in the country’s polluting coal mining industry—that it is time for workers around the world to band together in order to demand a renewable energy transition that puts labor rights at the forefront…

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it would take up challenges to President Donald Trump’s bid to terminate DACA, the Obama-era program that protects roughly 800,000 youth from deportation. Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), said on Twitter that the decision—issued just before the high court takes its three-month…

A straw poll released Monday by Democracy for America found that Sen. Bernie Sanders remains the top 2020 presidential choice among the group’s more than one million progressive members, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren running less than seven points behind in second place. The online survey—which opened following the first round of Democratic presidential debates last…