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Texas Dems Plan Filibuster As Last Resort To Keep Abortion Clinics Open

After thwarting two attempts Monday by majority Republicans to bring the abortion bill to a floor vote, Democrats are ready for a 13-hour speech.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — A sweeping bill that would effectively shut down most abortion clinics across the nation's second most-populous state has stalled in the Texas Senate, and a Democratic filibuster that will only need to last a seemingly manageable 13 hours Tuesday looks like it will be enough to talk the hotly contested measure to death. After

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Where In The World Is Edward Snowden, Part 2?

He boarded a flight bound for Russia, yet Russia’s foreign minister insisted that he had not crossed the Russian border.

Freya Petersen
بواسطة Freya Petersen

Russia has called U.S. claims that it aided Edward Snowden, the fugitive National Security Agency whistleblower, "unfounded and unacceptable." Though Snowdon boarded a flight from Hong Kong to Moscow on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Tuesday that he had not crossed the Russian border. That may mean that Snowden never

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While Feds Waffle, Cities Lead The Way On Climate Change

Despite promises, President Obama has made little progress, and cities and communities are taking matters into their own hands.

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

For coastal cities across the nation, combating climate change is a local issue. Located on the Atlantic Coast, Rhode Island is in vulnerable territory when it comes to rising sea levels, a side effect of climate change that coastal dwellers are keeping in mind. This was one reason the state’s capital city recently voted to withdraw all of its

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Nation Still Divided Over Death Penalty, But Not In Texas

In all likelihood, one Kimberly McCarthy will be the 500th person executed in Texas since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
execution room

Kimberly McCarthy, an inmate convicted of murder, could hold the dubious distinction of being the 500th person executed in Texas since Gregg v. Georgia, a 1976 decision reinstating the use of the death penalty. She is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection this Wednesday barring a last-minute stay of execution. Her case has drawn

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Chicago’s Attempt To Shed A Violent Past Leaves The Poor With Nowhere To Go

Infamous housing projects have been replaced by a scheme that may leave the poor facing gentrification instead of violence.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

For more than 60 years, the name Cabrini-Green epitomized the brutality of being part of the urban poor. Cabrini-Green was known for its violence and ruled by its gangs, leaving only the most destitute, the most needy and the most disenfranchised to travel its walkways as policemen were killed from open windows, a gang shootout left 11 dead, and a

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Before Dying In Wreck, Journalist Claimed He Was Under FBI Investigation

Theories of how he died aside, Michael Hastings may have been the latest journalist to come under investigation.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

Hours after news spread that investigative journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings had died in a single-vehicle car accident in Los Angeles last Tuesday, social media sites flooded with posts speculating that the government may have been involved in his death. One day after after Hastings died, WikiLeaks tweeted that the government may

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