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Lawmakers Say Farm Bill Deal Reached, Would Cut Millions Annually From Food Stamps

House passage of the farm bill, which would spend almost $100 billion a year and would save around $2.3 billion annually, isn’t certain.

Associated Press
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Bill Bass, 63, harvests corn on acreage near the southern Illinois town of Cobden

WASHINGTON (AP) — Farm-state lawmakers are pushing for final passage of the massive, five-year farm bill as it heads to the House floor Wednesday — member by member, vote by vote. There are goodies scattered through the bill for members from all regions of the country: a boost in money for crop insurance popular in the Midwest; higher cotton and

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Mexico Vigilantes Agree To Join Government Forces

In this Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, an armed man belonging to the Self-Defense Council of Michoacan, (CAM), stands guard at a checkpoint set up by the self-defense group at the entrance to Antunez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File) MEXICO CITY (AP) — “Self-defense” groups confronting a drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan […]

Associated Press
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In this Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, an armed man belonging to the Self-Defense Council of Michoacan, (CAM), stands guard at a checkpoint set up by the self-defense group at the entrance to Antunez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — "Self-defense" groups confronting a drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan have agreed to join government law enforcement forces after months of firefights with gang members, many times as federal police and troops stood by. The government announced Monday that it had reached a deal with vigilante leaders to

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Pete Seeger: Peace Through Song

Pete Seeger hasn’t always been right — and he’s the first to say so — but he’s always been true to his own moral compass.

Frederick Reese
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Iconic folk singer Pete Seeger died last night at the age of 94.  The following profile was published by MintPress on May 3, 2013: For almost 70 years, Pete Seeger has provided for many the soundtrack of change. A combination of folk singer, activist and educator, Seeger has grown to become to the ideal of what folk music can be -- a fount for

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US Looks At Ways To Prevent Spying On Its Spying

(Photo/Chuck Kennedy via Wikimedia Commons) WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans’ phone records. As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records. As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it's quietly funding

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China Visa Woes For New York Times As Government Ups Pressure

“International coverage is no longer simply damaging to China’s international image … It’s also damaging to China’s domestic image of the ruling party.”

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BEIJING (AP) — The government is intensifying efforts to control foreign media coverage of China, blocking websites, harassing reporters trying to cover trials of activists in Beijing and thwarting efforts by The New York Times to station new journalists on the mainland. The government under President Xi Jinping has taken an increasingly hard

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States Consider Reviving Old-Fashioned Executions

“Many of these politicians are trying to tap into a more populist theme that those who do terrible things deserve to have terrible things happen to them…”

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers. Most states abandoned those execution methods more than a generation ago in a bid

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