Lauren McCauley

Heartbreak And Outrage As Minorities Recount “Day 1 In Trump’s America”

Kids as young as kindergartners are being harassed across the U.S.

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley
Racist graffiti scrawled on one student's locker at Maple Grove High School, in Minnesota one day after Donald Trump won the presidential election.

In the mere hours since Donald Trump emerged as the surprising victor of the presidential election, there has been an observed uptick in reports of abuse, hate speech, and assault against Muslims, people of color, immigrants, Latinos, and the LGBTQ community, pointing to—as The Verge's Sean O'Kane put it—some "really dark days ahead" for minorities

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Concerned Over Growing Power Of Big Ag, States Joining DOJ Probes Of Mega-Mergers

Dow-DuPont and Bayer-Monsanto mergers will now face additional scrutiny as they seek to consolidate global GMO/pesticide industry

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بواسطة Lauren McCauley
roundup causes cancer

Two pending mega-mergers between agribusiness giants—Dow-DuPont and Bayer-Monsanto—are reportedly facing scrutiny from a number of U.S. states concerned over the intense consolidation of the global genetically modified organism (GMO) and pesticide industries. Citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the investigations, Reuters reported Monday

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As Flint Suffers, Nestlé Plans Dramatic Expansion of Water Privatization in Michigan

What’s more, the biggest food company in the world gets to pump that water at no cost .

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بواسطة Lauren McCauley
Nestle brand Arrowhead water bottlers. (Screenshot)

The state of Michigan has reportedly issued preliminary approval for bottled water behemoth Nestlé to nearly triple the amount of groundwater it will pump, to be bottled and sold at its Ice Mountain plant, which lies roughly 120 miles northwest of the beleaguered community of Flint. "Nestlé Waters North America is asking the Michigan Department

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Wikileaks Drops E-Reader Version Of Clinton Speeches, Alongside Podesta Emails

New emails lay bare what members of Hillary Clinton’s own inner circle believe to be her vulnerabilities—from ties to big money to scandal-laden husband.

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بواسطة Lauren McCauley
In this Oct. 5, 2016, photo, Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta speaks to members of the media outside Clinton's home in Washington. The WikiLeaks organization on Oct. 7, posted what it said were thousands of emails from Podesta, including some with excerpts from speeches she gave to Wall Street executives and others — speeches she has declined to release despite demands from Trump.

WikiLeaks on Monday dropped its second tranche of the so-called Podesta Emails, laying bare what members of her own inner circle believed were the vulnerabilities of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, from her emails and ties to big money, to her scandal-laden husband and propensity for saying things that are "untrue." It is the second batch of

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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For The NSA

Rights groups said the news proves “the failure of U.S. government reforms to curb NSA’s tendency to try and indiscriminately vacuum up the world’s data.”

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Deirdre Fulton
بواسطة Lauren McCauley
و Deirdre Fulton
Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.

In an astounding and "unprecedented" new account of U.S. government surveillance, Reuters reported Tuesday that Yahoo secretly scanned all of its customer's incoming emails for a specific set of characters, per request of the National Security Agency (NSA) or FBI. The news agency broke the investigation after speaking with "two former employees

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NCAA’s Bathroom Bill Boycott Prompts “Unhinged” Response From NC GOP

‘From Charlotte to Greensboro to Raleigh and everywhere in between, it has become clear that the shadow HB2 has cast on North Carolina is hurting our economy, our reputation, and our people every day.’

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بواسطة Lauren McCauley
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory speaks during a candidate forum in Charlotte, N.C.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced Monday that it is pulling all championship games from North Carolina for the 2016-2017 academic year because of the state's discriminatory, anti-LGBTQ "bathroom bill," HB2. "Fairness is about more than the opportunity to participate in college sports, or even compete for

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Snowden Files Reveal US Using Secretive UK Base For Targeted Killing Program

Newly revealed documents leaked by Edward Snowden and reported by the Intercept detail the inner workings of the NSA’s largest overseas base, Menwith Hill

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley
The Menwith Hill spy base near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest electronic monitoring station in the world.

In a damning exposé published Monday, The Intercept reporter Ryan Gallagher dives into the inner workings of National Security Agency's (NSA) largest overseas spying base, the U.K.'s Menwith Hill Station, and reveals concrete evidence that the British government is complicit in the United States' targeted killing program. Citing top-secret

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