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Detroit Police Officer Accused of Shooting 7-Year-Old Will Go to Trial
In a military-style raid, the police officer shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Now a trial date has been set.
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Farmworkers Feed Nation, But Few Have Health Care
Around 75 percent of farmworkers hired in the United States lack health insurance, the highest proportion of any major occupational category.
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Wave of “Ag Gag” Bills Threaten Food Safety and Freedom of the Press
‘Ag gag’ bills seek to prevent the documentation and exposure of safety violations and atrocities in animal industries by criminalizing them and labeling them ‘obstruction.’
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Cyprus Passes Parts of Bailout Bill, but Delays Vote on Tax
Lawmakers faced strong signals that the plan would not pass muster with international lenders.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The GOP Is Already Hatching Its Next Plot to Take Our Nation Hostage, and More
In today's On the News segment: John Boehner said the GOP will refuse to raise the debt ceiling in May, unless the president agrees to more spending cuts; Colorado …
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Senate Passes $3.7 Trillion Budget, Its First in Four Years
If the negotiations prove fruitless, the next budget crisis looms this summer when Congress must again raise the government's statutory borrowing limit or risk defaulting on the federal debt.
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Thousands of Gallons of Pollution Recovered From Oil and Gas Spill in Colorado
Cleanup continues at the site of an underground spill of thousands of gallons of pollution related to the oil and gas industry in the heart of Colorado's fracking country.
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Bury CISPA for Good
This week Internet advocacy groups — including the Free Press Action Fund — are uniting to protest CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. As we wrote last …
NATO 3 Oral Argument Unfolds on Illinois Terrorism Statute’s Constitutionality
On the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq War's launch, another tentacle of the post-9/11 national security state unfolded in a lively Chicago courtroom in the form of a domestic …
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Could New York Be the Next Chicago?
New York City's teachers union uses Chicago as an example in reforming its labor movement.