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In El Salvador, 17 Women Imprisoned for Miscarriage Await Pardon
Seventeen women remain imprisoned in El Salvador, charged with homicide, after suffering a miscarriage or other child delivery complication.
Mike Lofgren | The Implications of the Torture Report
The political game is so rigged that something like this was to a degree foreordained. It also explains why no one will ever be tried, at least in a …
Texas Oil Regulators Fired for Trying to Actually Regulate
What happens to energy regulators that dare to do their jobs and try to actually regulate energy companies? They get fired.
Convicted With No Evidence by an All-White Jury, Black Community Leader Rev. Edward Pinkney Faces Life in Prison
Rev. Edward Pinkney faces life in prison on charges many claim are trumped up.
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Wall Street to Workers: Give Us Your Retirement Savings and Stop Asking Questions
If you are a public school teacher in Kentucky, the state has a message for you: You have no right to know the details of the investments being made …
Rampant Prosecutor Misconduct Rarely Punished
Since 1989 nearly 1,500 people have been convicted of crimes and later exonerated.
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Dividing the Spoils
Our government has become a clearing house for corporations and plutocrats whose dollars grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation.
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The 2014 Midterm Elections, Incorporated
In Washington, it doesn't matter if you are a Republican, Democrat or independent: Money reigns supreme.
US Shifts Blame to Afghan Government for Exploding Central Asian Opium Trade
The United States, which fostered Afghanistan's opium production in the '80s, now blames the Karzai government for booming business.
Evidence That US Secretly Pays Off Yemeni Drone Strike Victims Revealed By Reprieve
The US government has apparently made secret payments of $100,000 to the families of two Yemeni men who were mistakenly killed in a covert drone strike, an investigation by …