Lauren McCauley

Fidel Castro Tells Obama: ‘We Don’t Need the Empire to Give us Anything.’

Leader of the Cuban Revolution refutes the U.S. President’s account of their countries’ shared history.

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Cuba President Fidel Castro gestures during an interview at the Presidential Palace for PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Feb. 8, 1985, Havana, Cuba. Castro said closer U.S.-Cuban ties would ease global tensions but “I will not change a single one of my principles for a thousand relations with a thousands countries like the United States.” (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro had a few things to say about U.S. President Barack Obama's recent visit to his island nation, writing in the state-run newspaper Granma on Monday, "We don’t need the empire to give us anything." The column, entitled "Brother Obama," takes aim at statements made by Obama during hishistoric visit to Cuba last

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California Reaches Deal to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour

Numerous statewide polls have suggested voters would approve a minimum wage proposal—perhaps even a more sweeping version—if given the chance.

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Hoping to avoid a costly ballot fight, California lawmakers and labor unions on Saturday reportedly reached an agreement to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour gradually by 2023. Governor Jerry Brown is expected to make a formal announcement on Monday, but a source close to the negotiations revealed the content of the deal to the Los

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Critics Aghast At ‘Disgusting Speech’ Clinton Just Gave To AIPAC

Democratic presidential candidate speech praises “everything that is bad about Israeli policy and U.S. imperialism.”

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, March 21, 2016, at the Verizon Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Palestinian and human rights advocates were aghast over remarks made by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention on Monday, saying that her speech represented "everything that is bad" with U.S. imperialism and policy in the Middle East. During the address, Clinton

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Pentagon Admits Using Spy Drones On Americans

‘The appetite to use surveillance drones in the domestic environment to collect airborne imagery continues to grow.’

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This Nov. 8, 2011 file photo shows a Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

An internal Pentagon report made public on Wednesday revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense has been using unarmed drones to conduct surveillance missions over American soil since 2006. The Pentagon inspector general report, entitled "Evaluation of DoD Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for Support to Civil Authorities," obtained by

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45 Years After COINTELPRO, FBI Still Thinks ‘Dissent Is The Enemy’

More than 60 groups sign letter calling for full investigation into government spying on protest groups.

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Forty-five years ago on Tuesday, peace activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania and unearthed documents exposing the government's expansive COINTELPRO operations, which aimed to surveil, disrupt, and "neutralize" lawful activist groups, including war protesters, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the American Indian

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After Sweeping Nevada, Trump Declares: ‘I Love The Poorly Educated’

“I love the poorly educated! They are the smartest people, the most loyal people.”

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, middle, takes a picture with supporters at a caucus site, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

After Donald Trump's sweeping victory in Nevada on Tuesday, the billionaire expressed optimism that what had been, until now, a grueling and jumbled Republican contest would be over sooner than expected. Trump, who trounced his opposition in Nevada with 46 percent of the vote, touted the diversity of his supporters. "We won the Evangelicals,"

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2015: The Year US Political Leaders Fanned The Flames Of A Nation ‘Awash’ In Hate

2015 saw a record rise in homegrown violence and extremism that matched the rise of discriminatory and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures.

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As police stand guard, armed anti-Muslim protestors, who did not want to give their names, stand across the street from a mosque during a demonstration in Richardson, Texas, on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

2015 marked a year "awash" in hate, according to an analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), as the number of extremist groups in the U.S. grew significantly, matching the rise of discriminatory and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures. The civil rights group's annual census (pdf) found that in the past year the number

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