Thursday, April 24, 2025

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Biden names Camp Hale a national monument in his first national...

The former military training facility shut down in 1965 and has since been used for recreational purposes.

Biden to restore protections to three national monuments cut by Trump

Biden will expand Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in what is now Utah.

Senate passes massive public lands conservation bill

The measure is the largest public lands bill considered by Congress in a decade.

Why Build a National Monument to a Union-Busting Robber Baron?

Now 120 years later, a national tribute to a narcissistic, paternalistic, brutalistic 19th-century robber baron—George Pullman—will soon be built in Chicago. And we, the taxpayers, are footing the bill for his greed.

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Humanity on path to climate collapse as study warns 16 tipping points at risk

New research finds current climate policies put Earth on a collision course with multiple environmental tipping points, threatening irreversible damage to global systems.

The betrayal of the Black community

What has not been generally covered are the feelings of let down and betrayal that lingers in the Black community as a result of the aftermath of the 2024 Presidential elections.

GOP leaders met with Israeli minister who called for bombing Gaza aid depots

Israeli national security minister claims Republican leaders supported his calls to target humanitarian supplies in Gaza, a move condemned as a war crime by international experts.

Pope Francis’s remarkable peacemaking life

As Francis demonstrated, there's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence.

Trump administration resumes student loan collections, threatening millions with garnished wages and economic hardship

Restarting federal loan garnishments and ending relief programs, the Trump administration advances a sweeping overhaul that critics say punishes struggling borrowers and deepens a national crisis.