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News Articles: Sen Bernie Sanders

Sen. Bernie Sanders Speaks To A Crowd Of 36,000 At The Fighting Oligarchy Rally At Gloria Molina Grand Park In Downtown Los Angeles On April 12, 2025.

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  • Politics

Bernie Sanders says Democrats have 'paid a political price' for not listening to the working class

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who caucuses with Democrats, has been touring the country with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to push back against the Trump administration.

April 23, 2025
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By:
  • Lynn Menegon and
  • Robin Young
An Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala. A Senate investigation found that Amazon workers were nearly twice as likely to be injured compared to workers at other warehouses in the industry.

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  • Business

Amazon manipulated injury data to make warehouses appear safer, a Senate probe finds

A Senate committee investigation, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, accused Amazon of risking worker safety for speed while manipulating injury data to make its warehouses seem safer than they are.

December 16, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses Unite Here Local 11 workers protesting outside of Figueroa Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. Authorities charged a man with setting a fire at his Burlington, Vt., office that same day.

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  • Politics

A man was charged with setting a fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office

A 35-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly set fire to a door outside the senator's office on Friday, trapping people inside and damaging the building. No injuries were reported.

April 07, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Emma Bowman
Sen. Bernie Sanders, pictured at a committee hearing last month, joined Republican senators in blocking aid to Israel and Ukraine. He tells NPR why he thinks support for Israel's military should have strings attached.

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  • Politics

Sen. Bernie Sanders says aid to Israel should be conditional, citing the toll on Gaza

Sanders joined Senate Republicans in blocking an aid bill for Israel and Ukraine on Wednesday. He tells NPR that Israel has the right to go to war with Hamas, but not "against the Palestinian people."

December 07, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
For months, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) refused to hold a hearing on Dr. Monica Bertagnolli's nomination to lead the National Institutes of Health. Sanders finally held that hearing last week.

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  • Health

Biden's pick to lead NIH clears hurdle — despite Bernie's vote against her

The Vermont senator held up the nomination process for Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to lead the health agency in order to make a point about drug prices. Now, he says he'll vote against her.

October 26, 2023
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By:
  • Colleen DeGuzman
Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) will question Howard Schultz, who recently stepped down as Starbucks CEO, on the company's resistance to its workers unionizing.

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  • Business

In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster

A hearing for the history books: The resolutely anti-union architect of the modern Starbucks faces the outspoken champion of the union movement in Congress.

March 29, 2023
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Andrea Hsu
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is chairing the Senate's top health committee which is focused on solving the U.S. health care worker shortage.

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  • Health

Fixing the health care worker shortage may be something Congress can agree on

The U.S. faces a shortfall of about 450,000 nurses and 120,000 doctors in the coming years. The Senate's top health committee, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, is considering bipartisan solutions.

February 22, 2023
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  • Michael McAuliff
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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  • World

Biden and Brazil's Lula find common ground against violent extremism

It was just over a month ago that hundreds of extremist supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the capital and ransacked the Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential offices.

February 10, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
President Joe Biden speaks with members of the press before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Washington. Biden spent the weekend at his home in Delaware.

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  • Politics

A top House progressive says $1.5 trillion is not enough to pass social spending plan

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, rejected the price tag put forward by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin for President Biden's sweeping domestic spending priorities.

October 03, 2021
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram

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