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A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated Black potential jurors at his 1990 murder trial. [...]
If President Trump gets his domestic policy bill over the finish line, it will be a vivid demonstration of his continuing hold over the Republican Party. [...]
President Trump claimed that the New York mayoral candidate, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was “here illegally,” his latest effort to promote false conspiracy theories about political opponents. [...]
In his announcement, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, did not provide key details on the cost of the project or when employees would transition into the new headquarters. [...]
In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz described the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution centers as [...]
Rather than taxing the rich to rescue a welfare system devastated by 14 years of Conservative austerity, a move consistently favoured in opinion polls, Starmer-Reeves have given paltry increases to [...]
It is now widely accepted that Iraq's alleged possession of nuclear weapons was the excuse, not the reason, for the Israeli/American desire to destroy Iraq. It should also be obvious [...]
In this latest and extensive discussion on U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, CounterPunch features international relations scholar Stephen Zunes, Middle East historian Lawrence Davidson, and legal expert and former [...]
The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New [...]