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By: Stephen Groves; AP News The resolution has virtually no chance of becoming law, but allows Sanders to force a vote that will put senators on the record over whether they support Trump’s decision to sell bombs to Israel during the war with Iran. The independent senator from Vermont has been an ardent critic of Israel’s actions in the region,

By: Brennan Leach; NBC News Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., was the deciding vote to confirm Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr., who has repeatedly undermined scientific consensus on vaccines. WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders is demanding that Senate Health Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy hold a hearing to set the record straight that there is no link between

By: Jeff Stein; Washington Post The measure is being backed by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) as Democrats began to jostle ahead of the upcoming presidential primary. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on Monday will unveil new legislation that would raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s roughly 1,000 billionaires, aiming to roughly halve their fortunes. The plan is a nonstarter in

By: Lauren Gambino: The Guardian After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systems Bernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have “not a clue” about the scale and speed of the coming AI revolution, pressing for urgent policy action to “slow this thing down”

By: Bianca Quilantan; Politico Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is accusing President Donald Trump of extorting universities and is urging these schools to protect free speech by resisting those efforts. Sanders, ranking member of the Senate HELP committee, outlined Trump administration “attacks” on the First Amendment at colleges and universities in a 23-page minority staff report obtained by POLITICO Wednesday. The

By: Ryan Mancini; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday said he will introduce a bill to ban sitting presidents from naming federal buildings after themselves, following the renaming of the Kennedy Center on Thursday. “What arrogance,” Sanders wrote on the social platform X, referring to President Trump. “What narcissism. I will be introducing legislation prohibiting the naming of