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Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries

August 10, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

The U.S. lab is devoting nearly 90% of its over-$2 billion budget for 2020-21 to nuclear weapons; only 2% will go to civilian science.

‘Out of money tomorrow’—Unemployed workers facing nightmare after $600 expires

August 7, 2020 By Sarah Skidmore Sell And Paul Wiseman

Around the country, across industries and occupations, millions of Americans thrown out of work because of the coronavirus are straining to afford the basics.

Germans battle virus deniers, landlords, and the right wing

August 7, 2020 By Victor Grossman

On Saturday, crowds came to Berlin from all over Germany for a parade, estimated at 17,000 to 20,000 by the police but over a million by some exuberant adherents.

NEA chief talks politics, school safety and pandemic

August 7, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says “education is a civil and human right."

Working Families Party members are voting on whether to endorse Biden

August 7, 2020 By PAI

WFP members initially endorsed Elizabeth Warren and then, after she dropped out, Bernie Sanders. Now they are deciding whether Biden measures up to the party's values.