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Ohio Fracking CEO Pleads Not Guilty in Federal Toxic Waste-Dumping Case
Fracking chemicals found in Ohio waters.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republican War on Woman Went into Overdrive in Arkansas, and More
Arkansas's legislature has passed one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans.

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Britain Says Equine Drug May Have Entered Food Chain
A crisis over horse meat in European food products deepened on Thursday when British officials said tests showed that a powerful equine drug, potentially harmful to human health, may …

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Palestine’s Peaceful Protestor: Saeed Amireh
Saeed is speaking across Skype's video messaging service. He wears a woolly hat, a jacket and dresses exactly as a European in his early 20s might. There is a …

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Three “Blood” Items You Probably Have In Your House Right Now
They say that ignorance is bliss and never has that been truer than in the case of modern consumer products. It seems like the more we know about the …

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New York Fracking Decision Delayed by Cuomo Administration, Too Early to Pop Champagne Bottles
New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration announced it won't achieve the late-Feb. deadline it set to green light fracking in New York State.

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States Cut Prison Budgets but Not Prison Populations
State prisons play musical chairs with inmate populations and come up short.

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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Senate Finally Reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, and More
In today's On the News segment: Yesterday, the Senate finally reauthorized protections for victims of domestic abuse in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); the Republican response to the …

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Immigrants Head to Washington to Make Their Voices Heard
Hopes for immigration reform included protections for organizing workers, an end to deportations and a path to citizenship for all.

State of the Union: Do Policy Proposals Live Up to Rhetoric on Wages and Climate Change?
Gerald Epstein: Language on wages and climate change could help shift the debate, but policy proposals tied to interests of finance and private sector.