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Is America’s $1 trillion defense budget defensible amid economic struggles?

Bernie Sanders challenges America’s staggering military budget, calling for reforms to address fraud, waste, and misplaced priorities.

Pentagon’s financial abyss: Sanders exposes decades of dodged audits and rampant...

Amidst soaring defense spending, a new GAO report uncovers the Pentagon's chronic evasion of basic fraud prevention measures, with Senator Bernie Sanders leading the charge for accountability.

Congressional stalemate: $858 billion for military, yet $12 billion child poverty...

A critical look at the Congressional impasse over funding $12 billion for Child Tax Credit expansion amid the approval of a colossal $858 billion military budget.

Here are the names of 23 Democrats that joined Republicans in...

The U.S. already spends more on military than the next seven countries – China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the U.K., India, France, and Japan – combined.

The scandal of Pentagon spending

Your tax dollars support troops of defense contractor CEOs.

The hidden costs of “national security”

Ten ways your tax dollars pay for war – past, present, and future.

The American way of war is a budget-breaker

Never has a society spent more for less.

Why spend $54 billion more on the Pentagon? To start a...

The president apparently wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency.

Trump budget puts 12 million people at risk of losing housing

The White House is hoping that Congress will approve of a $54 billion boost to Pentagon coffers.

The Republicans’ Military Budget Could Make Every Homeless Person In America...

$596 billion was spent on the military in 2015 and Republicans are looking to increase the defense budget even more.

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Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran while reimposing sanctions amid nuclear tensions

U.S.-Iran tensions escalate as Trump balances threats, sanctions, and potential diplomacy.

Trump administration orders USDA and Forest Service to remove climate change references, suppressing critical...

The systematic erasure of climate change information from government websites threatens scientific transparency, public safety, and environmental policy.

White House announces 53rd state!

"Mr. President, are there any plans for a 53rd state now that stars for Canada and Gaza have been officially added to the flag?"

Accumulation of microplastics in human brain tissue rising rapidly: Study

The research team discovered that plastic concentrations appeared higher in the brain than in the kidney or liver, and higher than earlier reports for testes and placentas.