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The Peshawar High Court declared U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt illegal Thursday and ordered the government to initiate a resolution against the attacks in the United Nations.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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A seamstress at the Bangladeshi factory that collapsed 17 days ago, killing more than 1,000 people in one of the world’s worst cases of industrial negligence, was rescued from the wreckage Friday.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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“Slut” shaped targets that bleed when shot were sold at the gun lobby’s convention; Hispanic high school students went on to college at a higher rate than white ones last fall; meanwhile, the U.S. is the only wealthy nation that hasn’t gotten the message that the death penalty is passé. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama shifts his attention and Gabrielle Giffords’ gun control group gears up to go head to head with the NRA.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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Fifteen agricultural workers in Oxnard, Calif., lost their jobs after they sought shelter to escape the ash and smoke-filled air from a raging wildfire last week. The strawberry pickers said they left because the smoke interfered with their ability to breathe.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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Much to the likely chagrin of the Minnesota congresswoman—who once claimed that gay couples could wed, but only to members of the opposite sex—her home state appears poised to become the latest to legalize same-sex marriage.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows that long-term jobless people whose unemployment benefits were extended at the start of the recession did not become unwilling to work.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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In a chilling letter allegedly written by Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapping suspect admits to his crimes but blames his three female victims for getting into the car with him in the first place.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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The first generation of Americans educated in the mass Christian home-schooling movement of the late 1990s have grown up and some are speaking critically about their experiences.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including three whistle-blowers testify before a House panel on September’s attacks in Benghazi and Michele Bachmann sees more trouble related to her 2012 presidential campaign.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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An advertising boycott enacted in the wake of Rush Limbaugh’s controversial “slut” comment about Sandra Fluke last year appears to be working.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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The Obama administration is on the verge of backing an FBI plan that would require websites that receive a wiretap order to comply by building surveillance capabilities into their communication services, officials say. Fines for those targeted companies that fail to add such functions would start at $25,000 a day.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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Legislation passed Friday in Florida “prevents a homeowner who loses a foreclosure case from recovering the property, even if the bank’s actions are later determined to be fraudulent,” the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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The three women who were kidnapped and held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade were raped, beaten mercilessly while pregnant, kept in ropes and chains and forced to crawl around on their hands and knees naked in the backyard by their captors, according to reports.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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