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Chad Devereaux examines bricks that fell from three sides of his in-laws home in Sparks, Okla., following two earthquakes that hit the area in less than 24 hours. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

EPA: North Texas Earthquakes Likely Linked To Fracking

Archives for أغسطس 2016

Homeland Security Cuts Water Supply To Native Tribes Protesting Pipeline

Homeland Security head Greg Wilz, claimed the removal of the water tanks was based on alleged unlawful activity.

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Native Americans protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline on Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota.

North Dakota’s homeland security removed water tanks and state-owned trailers from the Dakota Access Pipeline protest campsite Monday afternoon, taking away the camp’s main drinking water supply as the sun heated up, bringing temperatures to around 90 degrees. “I feel like I just got shot down,” said Johnelle Leingang, executive secretary to

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NJ School District Rolls Out Random Drug Testing Of Middle School Children

Some three dozen public school districts in New Jersey had implemented random drug testing for students as of three years ago.

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بواسطة Claire Bernish
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Random drug-testing of middle-schoolers — with penalties — has become a reality for a school district in New Jersey that already does so with high school students. Though the Lacey Township Board of Education program will be implemented purely on a “voluntary” basis for seventh and eighth graders who participate in athletic programs and

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US NGOs Demand OSCE Observers Monitor Nov. Elections, Fear Voter Discrimination

A group of over 200 US national organizations working in the human rights field urged on Tuesday the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to expand the number of the international observers monitoring US elections in November over fears of possible voter discrimination.

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President Barack Obama casts his ballot during early voting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Chicago, Ill., Oct. 25, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

MOSCOW – In June, the OSCE announced plans to send around 500 observers to monitor the US elections in the fall. "An American civil rights group is urging the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe () to expand its election monitoring mission in the United States and to target resources to states where voter discrimination and

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Tensions Escalate As Pentagon Establishes Unofficial No Fly Zone In Northern Syria

Over the weekend the US repeatedly scrambled fighter jets to chase off the Syrian planes, warning they were going to ‘defend themselves.”

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Kurdisfighters move to a secured point in the contested zone in Kobani, Syria. (Photo: Jake Simkin/AP)

After warning Syria not to fly planes in the Hasakeh Province or risk getting them shot down by US planes in the area, the Pentagon is struggling to convince reporters that there is some sort of distinction between this zone you can’t fly in and a “no-fly zone.” Fighting erupted between Syrian Army and Kurdish YPG forces in the city of Hasakeh

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15 Years, $70 Billion Later, US Still Struggling To Contain Taliban

Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland said mission would be ‘temporary,’ but would not say how long it would last, citing ‘security reasons.’

Nadia Prupis
بواسطة Nadia Prupis
NATO solders walk towards a Chinook helicopter after a ceremony at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

More than a hundred U.S. troops were sent to Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan on Monday to continue fighting the Taliban, in the first deployment of forces to the area since the drawdown in 2014—offering another signal that the U.S. military presence there is expanding, not decreasing, as President Barack Obama has promised. The Guardian reports: Since

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‘The Confession’: Former GITMO Prisoner Moazzam Begg Stars In ‘Profound’ Documentary On His Captivity

On the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay prison, Begg told CNN: ‘I still struggle personally, very much. It’s not resolved in any way, how this has affected me.’

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British Moazzam Begg leaves Belmarsh Prison in south London, after his release, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014. British prosecutors dropped terrorism charges Wednesday against the former Guantanamo Bay detainee who is a high-profile advocate for the rights of terror suspects.

MINNEAPOLIS --- A new documentary allows Moazzam Begg, a former prisoner at the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention facility, to share his experiences with captivity and the ongoing mark it left on his mental health. In “The Confession,” Begg tells his story in his own words, prompted by questions from the film’s director, Ashish Ghadiali.

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