Sanders Institute shutting down amid criticism

    The Sanders Institute, a think tank founded by the wife and son of Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.), is shutting down, The Associated Press reported Thursday….

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      Dems seek to stifle primary challenges to incumbents

      House Democrats’ campaign arm on Friday took an official step to protect sitting lawmakers, warning would-be campaign vendors that the party won’t award contracts to political firms working for primary challengers. With its new policy, posted Friday morning, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) said its “core mission” is to keep and grow the party’s newly…

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        "We Can't Remain Indifferent": Chile Trade Unions Call for General Strike in Support of Student-Led Uprising

        As protests against the Chilean government continued Monday, trade unions across the South American country called for a general strike to support demonstrators drawing attention to the nation’s high cost of living, inequality, and injustice. “We can’t remain indifferent to the social movement out there,” Escondida Union No. 1 president Patricio Tapia, whose organization voted…

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          WWE crowns new NXT Champion on Super Tuesday II

          More than five years after his first reign with the title began, Finn Balor is once again NXT Champion. Balor defeated Adam Cole on tonight’s Super Tuesday II edition of NXT to win the NXT Championship. Tonight’s match was set up after a four-way 60-minute Iron Man match with Balor, Cole, Johnny Gargano, and Tommaso Ciampa…

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            House Impeachment Investigators Probing Whether Trump Lied to Mueller

            The House of Representatives is reportedly investigating whether President Donald Trump lied to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in written testimony during the Russia probe. According to CNN, House attorney Douglas Letter told a federal appeals court Monday that House impeachment investigators are examining whether the president lied about his conversations with longtime confidant Roger…

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              'A Matter of Life and Death': COP 25 Protest Outside US Embassy Demands Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

              While representatives from governments across the globe gathered in Madrid Tuesday for the ongoing COP 25 climate summit, dozens of activists demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in the Spanish capital to demand justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirits, as they highlighted the fossil fuel industry’s connection to violence against them. Casey…

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                McBath fundraising off 'get back in the kitchen' remarks

                Rep. Lucy McBathLucia (Lucy) Kay McBathFloyd’s brother urges Congress to take action The Hill’s Campaign Report: Bad polling data is piling up for Trump Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE (D-Ga.), who flipped a long-held Republican district in the 2018 midterm elections, tweeted out Wednesday a link…

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                  Liberals infuriated by pro-incumbent House Dem policy

                  House Democratic leaders are defending a new policy that will exclude consultants who work for upstart challengers to Democratic incumbents from also receiving lucrative contracts from the party’s campaign arm, a move liberals are criticizing as an effort to rein in the rising energy of the progressive left. The policy, laid out last week, requires…

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