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May 05, 2023 Top News EPA Report on Neonics Proves US Has 'Five-Alarm Fire' on Its Hands, Green Groups Say "There's now no question that neonicotinoids play an outsized role in our heartbreaking extinction crisis," said one advocate. The EPA must "ban these pesticides so future generations don't live in a world without bees and butterflies and the plants that depend on them." Kenny Stancil Richard Glossip Gets Stay of Execution From US Supreme Court "There is nothing more harrowing than the thought of executing a man who the state now admits has never received a fair trial," said a lawyer for Glossip. Julia Conley Iowa Becomes Second GOP-Controlled State This Year to Pass Repeal of Child Labor Protections The legislation, which Gov. Kim Reynolds has said she will sign, will permit children as young as 14 to complete work including roofing, construction, and demolition. Julia Conley Florida Parents Vow Legal Fight After GOP Passes 'Dangerous' Attack on Gender-Affirming Care "If Gov. DeSantis signs this bill, he will be disrespecting the United States Constitution as well as the rule of law, not to mention transgender Floridians, their families, and their medical care providers," warned one advocate. Kenny Stancil Former Democrat Gives NC GOP Veto-Proof Majority to Pass 12-Week Abortion Ban "The people of North Carolina did not give Republicans a supermajority of the state House," said one progressive group. "Only the duplicity and corruption of Tricia Cotham did." Julia Conley WHO Declares Covid-19 Global Health Emergency Officially Over The agency leader said that "it is time for countries to transition from emergency mode to managing Covid-19 alongside other infectious diseases." Jessica Corbett 'Corruption. Plain and Simple': Ginni Thomas Took Secret Payments Ahead of Landmark Voting Rights Case "When you're saying things like 'No mention of Ginni, of course' when talking about paperwork for the wife of a Supreme Court Justice—you're probably doing a crime." Jon Queally

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Opinion GOP Hungrily Reading Orban's Playbook to Consolidate Corrupt Neofascist Oligarchy If you want to see the Republican Party's vision for America's future, just visit Hungary under their far-right ruler. Thom Hartmann Nazi Germany and the Contemporary Republican Party On some differences and on the similarities. Christopher Brauchli Contract Pharmacies Help 340B Patients; Drug Companies Are Restricting Them Since 2020, 21 drug companies have restricted the number of contract pharmacies where 340B nonprofits can fill patient prescriptions. Their attack undermines the intent of the 340B statute. John Arcano

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