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Targeted Killing White Paper Leaked to NBC News Turned Over to Truthout by DOJ in Response to a Six-Month-Old FOIA Request Four Days Later
The white paper was identical to the one leaked to NBC News, except the one Truthout received was dated November 8, 2011 and was marked “draft.”
Campaign to Recall “America’s Toughest Sheriff”
Sheriff Arpaio of Maricopa County Arizona, accused of brutal law enforcement and racial profiling; faces a recall campaign from an independent coalition.
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Obama Pushes Preschool for All Kids So They Don’t Start Out “a Step Behind“
President Obama proposes legislation that would expand free pre-kindergarten education for American children as an attempt to level the playing field for low income families.
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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.