All News Articles for 2014-01-17
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Week After West Virginia Chemical Spill, Company Files for Bankruptcy Freedom Industries, the company behind the chemical leak last week in West Virginia's Elk River, filed for bankruptcy on Friday, the Charleston Gazette reports . Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald on Obama's NSA 'Reforms' Read more |
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Effort to 'Normalize' NSA Spying, 'Mollify Public' Rebuked "Reform" proposals designed to "make the system prettier and more politically palatable... while leaving the system fundamentally unchanged." Read more |
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US Drone Strikes Necessitate Counseling Center for 'Traumatized' Children 'The people's cries have been met only with more missiles raining down from the skies above.' Read more |
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Brazen Enough to Gut Public Education, Governor Cowers as Students Protest Gov. Corbett backs out of first-ever visit to Philadelphia public school after students, workers, and community members mobilize Read more |
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Act Now or Pay the Heaviest Price, Warns Leaked Climate Report 'Explicit efforts' must be taken to reduce emissions Read more |
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Anonymous US Intelligence Officials Vocalize Desires to Kill Snowden Buzzfeed article cites unnamed officials who share murder scenarios Read more |
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Four Questionable Claims Obama Has Made on NSA Surveillance Today President Obama plans to announce some reportedly limited reforms to National Security Agency surveillance programs. Since the first disclosures based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Obama has offered his own defenses of the programs. But not all of the president’s claims have stood up to scrutiny. Here are some of the misleading assertions he has made. Read more |
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CDC: West Virginia Water Not Safe for Pregnant Women Resident: 'If it is not safe for me to drink pregnant, is it safe for my 55-pound daughter?' Read more |
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Obama's Speech on NSA Reform President Obama's speech will outline his proposed changes taken from a White House-appointed NSA review panel which offered 46 recommnedations to overhaul the surveillance agency last year. Given what critics of the NSA understand about what Obama is going to say, expectations are low . Watch live: Read more |
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Israel Lobby Thwarted in Iran Sanctions Bid For Now WASHINGTON - In what looks to be a clear victory – at least for now – for President Barack Obama, a major effort by the Israel lobby and its most powerful constituent, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to pass a new sanctions bill against Iran has stalled in the U.S. Senate. While the legislation, the “Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013,” had gathered 59 co-sponsors in the 100-member upper chamber by last week, opposition to it among Democrats appears to have mounted in recent days. Read more |
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Chris Hayes: Here Come the Subpoenas... Chris Hayes looks at the next wave of subpoenas that will be issued in the George Washington Bridge scandal. Read more |
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Groups to Obama: Your Fossil Fuel-Driven Policies Equal 'Catastrophic Climate Future' 'America’s energy policies must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, not simply reduce our dependence on foreign oil.' Read more |
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Mistakes of West, Texas Repeated In West Virginia For workplace safety advocates, the West Virginia chemical spill seems like déjà vu all over again. Read more |