Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald on Monday suggested that President Barack Obama had ordered 19 U.S. embassies in the Middle Easy closed not because of a legitimate terror threat, but to silence a debate on recently-revealed details of National Security Agency (NSA) data collection programs. In a...
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Greenwald: Embassy closings looks like a conspiracy to silence NSA debate
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Terminally ill 2-year-old dies after serving as ‘best man’ at parents’ wedding
By Francesca Trianni (Reuters) – A terminally ill 2-year-old Pennsylvania boy who served as best man at his parents wedding this weekend has died, his mother said. Logan Stevenson, who had leukemia, died in his mother’s arms on Monday night at the family’s home in western...
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Watch live: Authorities hold press conference on Pennsylvania township meeting shooting
Authorities hold a news conference on Monday’s shooting at a township meeting in Ross Township, Pa., that left three people dead. Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on Aug. 6.
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Arizona firefighter’s widow denied benefits over city’s ‘seasonal employee’ claim
The widow of one of the 19 Arizona firefighters killed battling a wildfire on June 30 is being denied salary and health benefits due to her despite her husband being a full-time employee, CBS News reported on Monday. “I said to them, ‘My husband was a full-time employee. He went to work...
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Did Liz Cheney commit a misdemeanor by lying to get a Wyoming fishing license?
Liz Cheney could be facing a misdemeanor charge and fines of up to $1,000 for lying about her residency to get a type of fishing license reserved for longtime Wyomingites. The Casper Star-Tribune reported on Monday that Cheney had been improperly listed on her Wyoming fishing license application as...
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Chinese baby ‘sold by doctor’ reunited with parents
BEIJING, China — A baby boy allegedly sold by the doctor who delivered him in China has been reunited with his parents, state media reported Tuesday, in a case highlighting the problem of child trafficking. Zhang Suxia, the doctor responsible for the birth in northwestern China’s Shaanxi...
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French woman offers to breast feed gay couples’ babies for $130 a day
PARIS (Reuters) – A woman has posted an offer on a French website to breast-feed babies of homosexual male couples for 100 euros ($130) a day, stirring up media interest just weeks after a divisive same-sex marriage law was passed. The post, which the website said it verified as genuine and...
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Kentucky gunman ambushes wife at work before turning gun on himself
A Kentucky man killed himself on Tuesday after police say he ambushed his wife at her place of work and shot her multiple times. Fort Thomas Police Lt. Rick Whitford told reporters that officers responded to reports of shots fired shortly after 8:00 a.m. at an office building on at N. Grand Avenue....
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Former NSA chief: Snowden defenders are ‘twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex’
Michael Hayden, who also headed the CIA, speculates on global hacker response if Edward Snowden brought back to US The former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA speculated on Tuesday that hackers and transparency groups were likely to respond with cyber-terror attacks if...
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Fugelsang defends Al Jazeera America against ‘right wing insanely fake Christian hate-monkey trolls’
Even though he will not be part of Current TV’s transition into Al Jazeera America, Viewpoint host John Fugelsang still insisted on defending the nascent network against the right-wing trolling that has followed its impending launch. “Even though I work for Current, I was getting called...
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How predatory payday lenders pop back up even after states crack down
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica A version of this story was co-published with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2008, payday lenders suffered a major defeat when the Ohio legislature banned high-cost loans. That same year, they lost again when they dumped more than $20 million into an effort to roll back...
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Catholic church to scout troop: If you include gays, find a new place to meet
A Wisconsin Catholic church has informed a group of boy scouts that they need to find a new meeting place if they are going to allow gay youth to participate in the program. According to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press, the troop has been meeting at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in...
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Anthony Weiner caught calling 69-year-old rival ‘grandpa’ at AARP event
While saying he would fight for seniors on Tuesday, embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner did engage in a verbal confrontation with 69-year-old rival George McDonald, culminating in Weiner calling McDonald “grandpa” before the event. NY1 reported that the exchange...
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Gohmert says he ‘duct taped’ a defendant’s head when he was a judge in Texas
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) revealed on Tuesday that he had wanted to keep a defendant quiet so badly that he “duct taped his head” while serving as a judge in Texas. During a discussion about the trial of Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan, Gohmert told Fox News host Sean Hannity that...
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Abortion Cooties!
I think one of my all time favorite rhetorical tics of conservative politicians is trying to convey crap they picked up in Christian right propaganda mills without really spelling out what they’re talking about or where they got it—for fear of the media following up, no doubt—and...
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Focus on the Family says protections for trans students makes teachers into ‘identity keepers’
Evangelical advocacy group Focus on the Family wants to mobilize California members to speak up against a state bill that would protect transgender students from discrimination and allow them greater access to school activities based on their identified gender. Think Progress reported on Wednesday...
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7 surveillance reforms Obama supported before he became president
When the House of Representatives recently considered an amendment that would have dismantled the NSA’s bulk phone records collection program, the White House swiftly condemned the measure. But only five years ago, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. was part of a group of legislators that supported...
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Santorum: Liberals ‘make it uncomfortable’ to shower at the YMCA
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently told a group of students that they needed to fight for conservative values in “every aspect of your life” because liberals who support abortion rights even “make it uncomfortable” to shower at the YMCA if you...
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‘He’s 47 percent Negro’: Anti-Obama Arizona protest turns racist
A protest against an appearance by President Barack Obama in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday was marked by several instances of racist language directed at Obama, the Arizona Republic reported. “He’s 47 percent Negro,” 77-year-old Ron Enderle shouted at one point, later telling the...
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Louisiana prison official: Raped 14-year-old inmate was no ‘Little Miss Muffin’
Louisiana prison officials and attorneys are trying to evade culpability in the rape of a 14-year-old juvenile inmate by claiming that the girl had a consensual relationship with the guard who molested her. According to the Tri-Parish Times, the victim solicited sex with now-incarcerated...
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