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New GOP Healthcare Bill Still a Huge Tax Cut for the Rich, Gutting Women's Care & Slashing Medicaid

A revised Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would gut Medicaid, give massive tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and defund Planned Parenthood, making it harder for women

July 14, 2017
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Category: Justice

Type: Video

The Breakthrough: How an ICIJ Reporter Dug Up the World Bank’s Best Kept Secret

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ICIJ reporter Sasha Chavkin had been investigating the World Bank for months when he visited a sweltering military post in Honduras and sat with the colonel. Sasha had heard the Honduran military was violently

July 14, 2017
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Category: Politics

Maize, rice, wheat: alarm at rising climate risk to vital crops

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Simultaneous harvest failures in key regions would bring global famine, says the Met Office

July 16, 2017
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Category: Environment

Watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How to Teach Science

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Physics and science play a huge part in everything around us — and pop culture is a great way to frame new information.

July 14, 2017
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Category: Science

Type: Video

Former NASA Climate Chief Warns That Earth Could Become “Practically Ungovernable”

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Former NASA climate chief James Hansen believes climate change's most dangerous effect will be a continuous rise in sea levels and not necessarily the increase in temperatures. Because so many people live in coastal cities, the mass migrations inland that will follow this rise could leave the world in ungovernable chaos.

July 14, 2017
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Category: Environment

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Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US

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Major media’s relative lack of interest in the mass arrests by Metro DC police on Inauguration Day is a fact noted by activists and journalists since the incident almost