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Bernie Sanders has again urged his supporters to back Hillary Clinton, writing Friday that “Donald Trump would be a disaster and an embarrassment for our country if he were elected president.” In an op-ed published at the Los Angeles Times, Sanders contrasts the two leading candidates on everything from tax policy to climate change to…

Setting a chilling precedent for human rights defenders worldwide, a British activist on Tuesday was convicted of criminal defamation and cyber crimes by a Thai court for his work exposing the abuse of migrant workers at a pineapple processing plant. Andy Hall, with the Migrant Worker Rights Network, had contributed to the 2013 report Cheap…

Two moderate House Republicans announced surprise retirements this week, quickening the pulse of Republicans waiting to see if a wave of retirements will jeopardize the party’s path to holding the House majority in 2018.  As President Trump fuels uncertainty in Washington and his low approval rating raises question about whether the GOP can hold the…

Tuesday marks judgment day in Alabama, where Sen. Luther StrangeLuther Johnson StrangeThe biggest political upsets of the decade State ‘certificate of need’ laws need to go GOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries MORE and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore are locked in a tough primary runoff. The winner of Tuesday’s…

State champion Coltan Laganiere of Kasson-Mantorville will be heading to South Dakota State University following his upcoming senior season. Laganiere is a two-time state placewinner. He won the 138 pound Class AA state championship as a junior. He placed fourth at 125 pounds as a freshman. Laganiere is projected to wrestle at 141 or 149…

The U.S. Commission on Presidential Debates on Monday released the polls it will use to determine which candidates will take to the stage in September for their first presidential debate—and shut out third-party candidates in the process. The Hill reports: As of Monday, neither Libertarian Gary Johnson nor the Green Party’s Jill Stein had enough…

New reporting this week further exposes how Investor State Dispute Settlement, or ISDS—a legal system enshrined in thousands of global treaties and pacts, including the pending Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—empowers corporations and rich investors at the expense of citizens and democracy. Under the ISDS framework, as Common Dreams has reported, multinationals are granted a parallel…

The technology manufacturing company Harris Corporation has fought to keep the public from knowing about how its surveillance devices work—specifically, the controversial cell phone spying tools known as Stingrays—but The Intercept on Monday published about 200 pages of Harris Corp. instruction manuals detailing how to build and use them. Harris has argued that releasing information about…

From youthful to more seasoned athletes, from on the field and off, national anthem protests against racial injustice show no sings of abating since they were sparked by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick one month ago. In fact, according to one observer, “his influence is growing.” On Sunday, dismissing their coach’s stance, four Washington…

As environmental organizations denounce climate change’s near total absence from the second presidential debate, a new analysis highlights the starkly differing attitudes backers of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hold on the issue. Released by the Pew Research Center and based on surveys conducted May 10-June 6 and Aug. 16-Sept. 12, the breakdown of the…