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NY Watch

New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave To His Reelection Campaign

By Greg B. Smith & Haidee Chu\The City Photos: YouTube Screenshot\Wikimedia Commons Just weeks after the Trump administration pulled off the dismissal of corrupt fundraising charges against Mayor…

US Politics

Congress: House Subcommittee Votes To Subpoena Justice Department For Epstein Files

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International

Committee To Protect Journalists: Israel Is Starving Gazan Journalists Into Silence

By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons New York, July 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists added its voice to Wednesday’s urgent appeal from more than…

Minneapolis Mamdani? Socialist Omar Fateh Beats Democratic Incumbent For Mayoral Endorsement

By Ethan Buhrow & Colton Baldus\People's World Photos: Omar Fateh\YouTube Screenshot MINNEAPOLIS—After more than 12 grueling hours inside the Target Center, the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party made history…

Justice For Greenwood: Big Victory For Creek Freedmen As “Blood Rule” Is Overturned

By Justice for Greenwood Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons (TULSA, OK) — Today, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling affirming that the Citizenship Board acted…

EPI: Trump’s Deportation Agenda Will Destroy Millions Of Jobs

By Economic Policy Institute Photos: YouTube Screenshots Summary: Deportations will eliminate millions of jobs held by immigrant and U.S.-born workers according to research on increased immigration enforcement. Read…

What Can Be Done To Preserve American Democracy?

By Mark Gruenberg Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons WASHINGTON—Tackling the weightiest problem to face the U.S. in decades, participants at a day-long conference here wrestled with the question their…

Economy

Jacobin Report: Working Class Americans Continue To Reject Democrats

By Jacobin Photos: YouTube Screenshots The Democrats’ working-class problem is not going away. In fact, it’s only getting worse — expanding beyond Donald Trump’s base of working-class whites…

CPJ, Partners Call On US To Free Imprisoned Journalist Mario Guevara

By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: YouTube Screenshots Atlanta, July 22, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and partners on Tuesday called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to…

International

South Africa: Education Minister Fired Amid Corruption Allegations

By Semafor Africa Photos: YouTube Screenshot\Wikimedia Commons South African President Cyril Ramaphosa removed the higher education minister from her post in what appeared to be a bid to…