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‘The Weed Fairy’ Visits Seattle, Gives Out Pot

The woman, 23-year-old Yeni Sleidi, says she does it to amuse people and to give them a break from everyday stress.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Weed Fairy

SEATTLE  — A woman who calls herself the "Weed Fairy" distributed free nuggets of marijuana to people in Seattle over Memorial Day weekend, taping the free pot on fliers around a city neighborhood. The woman, 23-year-old Yeni Sleidi, says she does it to amuse people and to give them a break from everyday stress. She said 50 fliers had nuggets

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New Orleans Now Home To First All-Charter School District In Country

The shutdowns moved forward despite opposition from local communities.

Sarah Lazare
بواسطة Sarah Lazare
Eric Holder, Arne Duncan

New Orleans is now home to the first and only school district in the United States that is all-charter. The Recovery School District on Wednesday shuttered its last remaining traditional public school, meaning that almost all New Orleans schools are now privatized. The shutdowns moved forward despite opposition from local

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Obama Administration Pushes For More Secrecy Over Drone Memo

With David Barron now confirmed as federal judge, administration says it wants further redactions of document.

Andrea Germanos
بواسطة Andrea Germanos
In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. (Photo Anonymous/Site Intelligence Group/AP)

The Obama administration this week is pushing for further censorship of the controversial memo that authorized the drone killing of a U.S. citizen. The Senate last week confirmed David Barron, who co-authored that memo while at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department, for U.S. Circuit Judge for the First Circuit.  His

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John “Man Up” Kerry Faces Firestorm For Snowden Remarks

From “misogynistic” to “obnoxious,” Secretary of State Kerry slammed for comments about whistleblower.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is facing widespread criticism for his comment that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden—increasingly seen by the American public as a heroic figure for exposing government surveillance—should "man up" by returning home to face criminal charges.   “This is a man who has betrayed his country,” Kerry told CBS News on

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‘Permanent Protest Vigil’ Launched To Confront First Tar Sands Mine In US

The project has faced ongoing resistance from environmental groups who have seen the devastating impacts the Alberta tar sands have brought to land, water and indigenous communities.

Andrea Germanos
بواسطة Andrea Germanos

As a Canadian company readies its plans for extraction at the first proposed tar sands mine in the United States, a group of climate justice activists is readying its own mobilization: a permanent protest vigil at the site to protest the project's "swift obliteration" of ecosystems, danger to waterways and contribution to the fossil fuel-driven

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Ukraine ‘Fratricidal War’ Deepens

Continued violence makes a negotiated settlement in Ukraine increasingly difficult.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
Ukraine

Separatists in the east of Ukraine who refuse to submit to the political and military authority in Kiev have shot down a helicopter near the city Slaviansk, killing a reported fourteen soldiers including a general. Clashes have continued between military units that reject the outcomes of national elections that took place Sunday and members of

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