Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation’s sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in Montana, Oregon, and Missouri. Overnight hospital wings for kids have also shuttered in Illinois and California. Depending on the hospital, pediatric units — which are separate from neonatal…
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As voters facing rising living costs head to the midterm polls, the nation’s largest federation of tenant unions has released a damning report on the Trump administration’s “catastrophic failure” to rein in greedy landlords and address a housing crisis that threatens to displace millions of working people from their homes. In fact, housing justice advocates say the few housing policies…
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Democrats on Tuesday won control of both houses of Congress and a decisive mandate to put a check on Donald Trump’s tumultuous presidency, a victory propelled by voter anger over high prices, corruption and the unchecked spread of data centers. Some of the same concerns helped to lift Democrats to victories in statehouses, where they gained a majority of the country’s governorships for the…
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Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s billionaire education secretary, faced backlash on Wednesday over her plans to spend more than $43,000 of taxpayer money on new furniture for her government office as she works to illegally dismantle the department she leads, harming students across the country. Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.) and Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) wrote in a letter to McMahon…
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Harvard graduate student workers walked off the job on Tuesday in their second strike of 2026 — and other Harvard workers are set to follow with additional strikes in the coming weeks, as union activity heats up on campuses in the Boston area. The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers Local 5118 (HGSU), which represents over 4,000 student workers, began their strike at midnight…
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Vanity Fair recently published an excerpt from longtime investigative reporter Matthew Cole’s new book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East. The excerpt alleged that during President Trump’s first term, Saudi and Emirati leaders secretly put at least $2 billion into bank accounts and gave access to Kushner. At the time…
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