TOP NEWS: 'Never Seen Anything Like This': US Book Bans Hit Record High

 

March 23, 2023 Top News Cancer Patients Challenge Biden Admin's Refusal to Lower Price of Lifesaving Drug "We request HHS to consider this appeal directly... because the NIH has repeatedly demonstrated its unwillingness to even acknowledge that the Bayh-Dole Act includes an obligation to make products invented with federal funds 'available to the public on reasonable terms.'" Kenny Stancil Consumer Advocates Applaud as Federal Court 'Yet Again' Finds CFPB's Funding Constitutional "If the Supreme Court follows suit," said one watchdog, "it will mark a major win for everyday consumers impacted by abusive fees, predatory lenders, and corporate greed." Julia Conley Climate Advocates Call Out House GOP Push to Fast-Track Mountain Valley Pipeline "Time and time again the people have risen up against the backroom deals and slimy maneuverings at the federal level to push MVP through, and we will keep standing up," vowed one organizer. Jessica Corbett US Progressives Stand Against 'Xenophobic' TikTok Ban "If you think the U.S. needs a TikTok ban and not a comprehensive privacy law regulating data brokers, you don't care about privacy, you just hate that a Chinese company has built a dominant social media platform," said one digital rights campaigner. Brett Wilkins Manhattan DA Accuses House GOP of 'Unlawful Incursion' Into Trump Probe "The district attorney is obliged by the federal and state constitutions to protect the independence of state law enforcement functions from federal interference," wrote the district attorney's general counsel. Jake Johnson 'Never Seen Anything Like This': US Librarians Report Book Bans Hit Record High in 2022 "Each attempt to ban a book by one of these groups represents a direct attack on every person's constitutionally protected right to freely choose what books to read and what ideas to explore," said one intellectual freedom advocate. Julia Conley

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