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Georgia To Execute Man With IQ Of 69 Despite U.S. Supreme Court Ruling: Board of Pardons Defy Medical Evidence Of Disability

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For-Profit Prisons Hinder Immigration Reform For Millions Of Undocumented Immigrants

In a photo made Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 photo, Pedro Guzman is shown at home in Durham, N.C. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the Guatemalan native in 2009, and he spent 19 months in private prisons run by CCA in Gainesville and Lumpkin, Georgia. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (MintPress) – With more than 11 million […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
In a photo made Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 photo, Pedro Guzman is shown at home in Durham, N.C. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the Guatemalan native in 2009, and he spent 19 months in private prisons run by CCA in Gainesville and Lumpkin, Georgia. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

(MintPress) - With more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, families still live in constant threat of losing a family member in an arbitrary raid by authorities. After introducing model legislation offering undocumented immigrants an eight-year path to citizenship Monday, the Obama administration could make problems

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Another Government Bailout For Big Banks? New York Fed Won’t Comment, Cites Pending Litigation

People pass a Bank of America branch, in New York, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (MintPress) – While government bailouts provided to banks caught up in the mortgage foreclosure mess are often spoken about in the past tense, a new report indicates the New York Federal Reserve is still letting big banks off […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
People pass a Bank of America branch, in New York, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

(MintPress) - While government bailouts provided to banks caught up in the mortgage foreclosure mess are often spoken about in the past tense, a new report indicates the New York Federal Reserve is still letting big banks off the hook. Documents released through a settlement reached between Bank of America and the New York Federal Reserve reveal

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Mississippi Legislation Reinstituting Prayer In Public Schools Awaits Governor’s Approval

A unidentified man prays in an empty room. (Photo/via Flickr) (MintPress) – A Mississippi bill that would reinstitute prayer in public schools made its way through the state’s House and Senate bodies and is now awaiting approval from Republican Gov. Phil Bryant. Before it heads to the governor’s desk, where it is likely to be […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

(MintPress) - A Mississippi bill that would reinstitute prayer in public schools made its way through the state’s House and Senate bodies and is now awaiting approval from Republican Gov. Phil Bryant. Before it heads to the governor’s desk, where it is likely to be approved, the House and Senate will have to reconcile a single bill sharing

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Prescription Drug Abuse Among Adolescents Up 500 Percent Since 1997

Pills are scattered across a surface in this Jan. 8, 2011 photo. (Photo by bradleypjohnson via Flickr) (MintPress) – More young people are abusing prescription drugs than ever before, according to a study by the University of Colorado Denver. The study, which was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, indicates that young people are abusing […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

(MintPress) - More young people are abusing prescription drugs than ever before, according to a study by the University of Colorado Denver. The study, which was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, indicates that young people are abusing prescription drugs at a rate 40 percent higher than their older generation. The increase rate of

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Media Coverage Of Gun Violence: What Gets Left Out Could Say Volumes, According To NBC News Project

In a Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 file photo, gun violence protesters participate in a lie-in during an anti-gun rally at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) MINNEAPOLIS (MintPress)–Earlier this month, a network news entity presented its strongest argument to date in the gun violence debate. NBC News prepared an interactive map that displayed all […]

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese
A pile of guns are displayed at a news conference. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

MINNEAPOLIS (MintPress)--Earlier this month, a network news entity presented its strongest argument to date in the gun violence debate. NBC News prepared an interactive map that displayed all the non-accidental, not self-inflicted gun-related accidents and deaths that took place over the three-day Inauguration weekend. The map showed Christopher

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Questions Raised Of Possible Corruption, Misuse Of Funds Intended For Syrian Refugees

A Wounded Syrian refugee man makes his way on water and mud, at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, on Jan. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon) AMMAN, Jordan (MintPress) — Both the U.N. refugee agency and host countries like Jordan say their humanitarian assistance to thousands of displaced Syrians is […]

Dale Gavlak
بواسطة Dale Gavlak

AMMAN, Jordan (MintPress) -- Both the U.N. refugee agency and host countries like Jordan say their humanitarian assistance to thousands of displaced Syrians is running on empty, despite international pledges made in Kuwait last month for more than $1.5 billion. Andrew Harper, Jordan’s representative with the U.N.’s refugee agency, United Nations

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