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The sister of disgraced Wall Street titan Bernie Madoff and her husband – who were also the  victims of the Ponzi schemer’s massive fraud – have died from gunshot wounds in a case that police are investigating as a possible murder-suicide. Sondra Wiener, 87, and Marvin Wiener, 90, were found …

The West and Russia must “do everything possible” to avoid a war in Ukraine because of the human, economic and climate cost it would bring, former Democrat presidential contender Bernie Sanders warned in an article published by the Guardian on Tuesday. Sanders is an independent US senator from Vermont who …

“We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period,” Sanders tweeted on Saturday, to which Musk replied, “I keep forgetting you’re still alive.”  He followed up by floating the idea of selling Tesla stock. Musk previously sold billions in shares after putting out a poll asking if he …

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Speaking on the Ezra Klein Show podcast on Tuesday, the US senator from Vermont said he was uncomfortable with the idea of a “handful of high-tech people” having the power to censor different points of view, and called for a ‘balanced’ approach. The former Democratic presidential candidate and frequent Trump …

A Twitter row between the self-described ‘democratic socialist’ senator and the ‘self-made billionaire’ began on Thursday, when Sanders complained that Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans. “That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral,” he said, “it is unsustainable.” Notwithstanding …

As the US Senate debated amendments to President Joe Biden’s long-anticipated Covid-19 relief bill, Sanders stuck to his progressive guns on Friday and attempted to insert an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to $15. The amendment was already ruled out by the Senate parliamentarian – an official who …

“As the occupying power, Israel is responsible for the health of all the people under its control. It is outrageous that Netanyahu would use spare vaccines to reward his foreign allies while so many Palestinians in the occupied territories are still waiting,” Sanders tweeted. Israel’s decision to send out surplus …

During the 1980s, there was a hearing on Capitol Hill about obscenity in the music industry. One of the people to testify during that hearing was the lead singer of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister, Dee Snider. When he was asked about possible sadomasochism in his song ‘Under the …

Few people would associate Bernie Sanders with “white supremacy.” An elederly Jewish progressive whose ill-fated presidential campaign last year promised to build a left-wing “multi-generational, multi-racial coalition,” the Vermont senator is about as far from the prototypical skinhead as it’s possible to be. Not so for Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, a high …