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  • Can Biden Murder Trump and Get Away With it?

    Monday, March 11, 2024
    Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more
  • Voting Rights Restored to 200,000 Convicted Felons in Virginia

    Sunday, April 24, 2016
    Amid intensifying national attention over harsh sentencing policies that have disproportionately affected African-Americans, governors and legislatures around the nation have been debating — and often fighting over — moves to restore voting rights for convicted felons. Virginia imposes especially harsh restrictions, barring felons from voting for life. “There’s no question that we’ve had a horrible history in voting rights as relates to African-Americans — we should remedy it,” said McAuliffe.   read more
  • As the Rich Outlive the Poor, Social Security’s Safety Net Shifts from Poor to Rich

    Saturday, April 23, 2016
    A large body of research shows that the rich live longer — and that the life span gap between rich and poor is growing. And that means that the progressive ideal built into the design of Social Security is, gradually, being thwarted. In some circumstances, the program can actually be regressive, offering richer benefits to those who are already affluent. For anyone who believes that it’s important for the Social Security program to remain progressive, the life-span shifts have big implications.   read more
  • Clinton-Appointed Judge Supports Gag Orders on FBI National Security Letter Recipients

    Saturday, April 23, 2016
    The cases were brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represented two service providers. EFF attorney Andrew Crocker said they are "extremely disappointed that the superficial changes in the NSL statutes were determined to be good enough to meet the requirements of the First Amendment. NSL recipients can still be gagged at the FBI's say-so, without any procedural protections, time limits or judicial oversight. This is a prior restraint on free speech, and it's unconstitutional."   read more
  • U.S. Suicide Rate Jumps to 28-Year High

    Saturday, April 23, 2016
    The increase was substantial among middle-aged Americans, sending a signal of deep anguish from a group whose suicide rates had been stable or falling since the 1950s. The rise was particularly steep for women, including an alarming increase among girls 10 to 14, whose suicide rate, while still very low, had tripled. The data analysis also provided fresh evidence of suffering among white Americans, showing surges in deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, liver disease and alcohol poisoning.   read more
  • As World’s Top Fossil Fuel User, U.S. Navy Orders Vendors to Lower Greenhouse Gas Output

    Saturday, April 23, 2016
    The Navy is following the lead of the General Services Administration, which last year became the first federal agency to require its vendors to report carbon emission and set lower targets. The U.S. military is also broadening its use of solar and other renewable energy, seeking to lessen its dependence on supply chains and on oil, a commodity vulnerable to global tensions. The Navy is responsible for about one-third of the Pentagon's use of fossil fuel, Mabus said   read more
  • FBI Approves of their Agents Killing Suspect, But Not of Shooting His Car Tire

    Saturday, April 23, 2016
    The FBI took the unusual step of deeming part of that case a “bad shoot” in agents’ parlance. But the two agents who killed Harrison were not faulted. Instead, only the agent who shot the tire was blamed, recommending that the agent be suspended for a day without pay. The reason was that lethal force force policy forbids firing a gun to disable a vehicle. But the same policy permits firing a gun to protect people from danger, which they applied to Harrison's killing.   read more
  • Surveillance Court Finds U.S. Spy Agencies’ Improper Handling of Data “Disturbing”

    Friday, April 22, 2016
    A top-secret federal court has called the NSA and FBI's retention of personal information "disturbing and disappointing," and ordered them to reveal how they will destroy such information going forward. The court said the NSA may have broken the law by failing to redact information collected about its targets online. Judge Hogan also singled out the FBI, ordering it to submit a report containing each instance in which it places Americans under surveillance to "extract foreign intelligence."   read more
  • Leader of Syria Rescue Group, Arriving in U.S. for Award, Is Refused Entry

    Friday, April 22, 2016
    Saleh sought to turn the focus away from his own case to the experience of millions of Syrians who find the world’s borders closed to them. “In any airport, the treatment we get as Syrians is different,” he said. “The way they look at us, we are suspected.” Said USAID's Gayle Smith: "Raed and his colleagues don’t run away. They run toward the bombs, protected only by their white helmets and driven by a simple belief inspired by the Quran — to save one life is to save humanity.”   read more
  • Meet the Women Whose Faces Will Grace Your Currency

    Friday, April 22, 2016
    Isabella Baumfree, a slave born in 1797, changed her name to Sojourner Truth after she walked off an upstate farm in 1826 with her infant daughter. She became a Christian preacher and grew increasingly political in pressing for abolition, women’s suffrage and prison reform. She delivered her most famous address, “Ain’t I a Woman,” in 1851 in Ohio, where she said: “I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well. And ain’t I a woman?”   read more
  • CEO of Accreditor for For-Profit Colleges Resigns amid Growing Scrutiny

    Friday, April 22, 2016
    State attorneys general said ACICS had “ruined the lives of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable students whom it was charged to protect.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed Gray for propping up Corinthian Colleges amid allegations of fraud. “How many federal and state agencies need to file lawsuits against one of your colleges before your organization takes a second look at whether that school should be eligible for accreditation, and most importantly, federal money?” she demanded.   read more
  • Organic Farmers Sue USDA over Corporate Appointments to Food Board

    Friday, April 22, 2016
    Cornucopia, which takes its name from the city in Wisconsin where it is based, accuses the defendants of "appointing unqualified individuals to the National Organic Standards Board," a 15-member committee that advises the USDA on how to implement the 1990 Organic Foods Production Act. "The American people have a right to trust that food certified as organic is free of inappropriate or inadequately reviewed synthetic substances that do not comport with the OFPA," the complaint states.   read more
  • Slave and Abolitionist Harriet Tubman to Replace Slave Owner and U.S. President Andrew Jackson on $20 Bill

    Thursday, April 21, 2016
    Not since 1929 has American currency undergone such a far-reaching change. The remaking of the nation’s paper currency may well have captured a historical moment for a multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial nation moving contentiously through the early years of a new century. Tubman, an African-American and a Union spy during the Civil War, would bump Jackson — a white man known as much for his persecution of Native Americans as for his war heroics — to the back of the $20.   read more
  • In Separate Cases, CIA and Supreme Court Approve Paths for Benefit Payments to Terror Victims’ Families

    Thursday, April 21, 2016
    The CIA has secured funds to begin paying out death benefits of up to $400,000 each to families like the Dohertys who are survivors of federal employees or contractors killed in acts of terrorism overseas. The benefits will be available to families of victims dating back as far as 1983, when suicide bombers killed dozens of people at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The agency has not released the specific number of families who qualify, but it's believed to be several dozen.   read more
  • Investigations Underway after Thousands of Voters Shut Out of New York Primary

    Thursday, April 21, 2016
    Hours before New Yorkers handed Democratic president hopeful Hillary Clinton and her likely Republican challenger Donald Trump highly coveted wins in their quest for the White House on Tuesday, a voting scandal erupted in the state's largest city. New York City's comptroller announced his office will audit the Board of Elections after it confirmed more than 125,000 Brooklyn voters were removed from the rolls, miscategorized by party and shut out of the Democratic process.   read more
  • New Englanders, Reeling from States’ Opiate Crisis, Cast Wary Eye on Marijuana Legalization

    Thursday, April 21, 2016
    This largely liberal region is struggling with the devastating impact of opiate abuse, which is disrupting families and taking lives. Many lawmakers balk at the idea of legalizing a banned substance, citing potential social costs. “[People] ask themselves, ‘Are we sending the right message...?'” said Vermont House speaker Shap Smith. The opiate crisis, which has killed more than 1,000 people in New England last year, is a substantial stumbling block and figuring into anti-legalization alliances.   read more
  • Fox News Monthly Election Coverage: 666 Minutes for GOP Candidates, 13 Minutes for Dems

    Thursday, April 21, 2016
    Fueled by Trump fascination, the Republican race in general has gotten more coverage. Fox no doubt believes that its audience, dominated by Republicans, is more interested in the GOP campaign. For example, Sean Hannity's show had no Democratic candidates or surrogates on during the month-long period. A 2012 Pew Research Center study found that 78% of Hannity's audience identified themselves as conservative, and 5% as liberal.   read more
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