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Obama Administration Will Fight to Restore Voting Rights Act
The first challenge will be in Texas, where lawmakers are challenging Texas's redistricting plan based on the 2010 census.
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
Ask the NSA, as part of a freedom of information request, to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' email? The agency says it doesnu2019t have the …
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FDA/USDA Collude to Eliminate True Organic Egg Production
Onerous food safety rules could abolish outdoor access for laying hens.
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Citizens and Teachers Resist Massive Public School Closures in Philadelphia
Both students and parents are at a loss as to what will happen in September.
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Judicially Amended “Remedies” Fail to Promote Purposes of NLRA
Judicial amendments have nullified NLRA remedies which allow employees to assert their rights.
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Special Investigation: Fracking in the Ocean Off the California Coast
The Pacific Ocean may be the next frontier for fracking technology.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Hampshire Is the 19th State to Approve Medical Marijuana, and More
In today's On the News segment: New Hampshire is the 19th state to approve medical marijuana; GOP lawmakers in North Carolina have turned that state into ground zero for …
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A Picket Line for Civil Liberties: Activists Target Nancy Pelosi for Supporting the Surveillance State
A group of over seventy Sonoma, Marin, and other Bay Area citizens, activists, and community leaders recently took House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to task for supporting …
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We’re Taxing the Rich … and So Can You
There is an alternative to austerity; its name is ‘progressive taxes.’
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Are Thrilled That Detroit Has Filed for Bankruptcy, and More
In today's On the News segment: For the GOP - the fall of Detroit is a talking point goldmine; The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant admitted …