TOP NEWS: Sanders Crafts Amendment to Close 'Holes' in Medicare That 'Are Harming Seniors'

August 05, 2022

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After Shielding Tax Loophole for Private Equity, Sinema Backs Senate Bill "Kyrsten Sinema has spent her entire Senate term posturing for a multimillion-dollar job in private equity," said one critic. "Now she's looking to close the deal." by Jake Johnson Sanders Crafts Amendment to Close 'Holes' in Medicare That 'Are Harming Seniors' "Adding dental, vision, and hearing benefits to Medicare is supported by 84% of the American people," said an aide to the senator, who plans to propose including the expansion in Democrats' reconciliation package. by Brett Wilkins 5-Year-Old Girl Among Those Killed in Latest Israeli Bombing of Gaza "This is unnecessary, unprovoked, reckless," said one observer. by Jake Johnson

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Trump's GOP Embraces Orban's Racist Eugenics The authoritarian Hungarian leader's rhetoric is familiar to anyone who lived through the Nazi holocaust, but prominent American Republicans have rushed to his defense. by Robert Reich The Other Victims of US Burns Pits Were the Iraqi and Afghan People The close to $700 billion appropriated in the PACT ACT for the next ten years will help alleviate some suffering caused by Halliburton’s war profiteering, but only for U.S. victims. It won’t do a thing for the people in Iraq and Afghanistan. by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan Polling Makes Clear: Americans Don't Want War With Iran On the eve of a new round of JCPOA talks, a new survey shows that today’s saber rattling is a bit unwelcome. by Connor Echols

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