The US seized funds from Afghanistan's central bank, and in September set up a channel to donate those funds for food for Afghans. But it's not doing anything.

Campaigning against plans to restart a US nuclear reactor that has been permanently shut down for being dangerous to operate.

16 cities in Puerto Rico are suing fossil fuel companies and their PR tools for conspiring to deny the dangers of burning oil — in particular, increasingly devastating hurricanes.

Fiji has ousted coup-leader Bainimarama through a democratic election. But it is not yet clear he won't stage another coup.

The Senate considered a harmful trade: to extend tax credits for poor families with children in exchange for tax cuts for corporations (mostly for the rich).

The article does not make it clear which of those two changes were temporary and which were permanent. But I expect that the increase in tax credits for children was temporary.

This sort of deal is bad and we should defeat it. Continuing to reduce taxes for the rich will paralyze the government, leaving it unable to afford tax credits for the poor, or anything else. We need to increase taxes on the rich.