All posts tagged "Human rights"
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920Latest HeadlinesSTRIKE: LaGuardia Workers Refusing to Work In Fear of Ebola-ravaged Countries
Airplane cabin cleaning crews at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport began a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, citing, in part, possible exposure to...
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1.0KIn The NewsFBI Defends Violation of Fourth Amendment Rights
Lawyers for a digital rights group squared off with federal attorneys in a San Francisco courthouse on Wednesday during an appeals hearing...
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930In The News[VIDEO] POLICE BRUTALITY: NYPD cops under criminal investigation after punching, pistol-whipping teen suspect
Caught on surveillance camera two New York Police officers are being investigated for punching and using a gun to bash a teenage...
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1.3KIn The NewsTERRORISTS AMONG US: FBI starts anti-jihadist neighborhood informer campaign
The FBI counter-terrorism division is calling on to Americans to report on fellow citizens engaged in suspicious activities to help identify possible...
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769In The News[VIDEO] Open-Carry Supporters Bring Guns To Ohio Walmart In Protest Of Police Shooting
Exercising the state’s open-carry laws on firearms, Ohio residents brought their guns to a Walmart store to protest the officer-involved fatal shooting...
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998EntertainmentREPORT: Celebrities Targeted in Nude Photo Leak Threaten Google With $100M Lawsuit
A group of celebrities whose nude photos were leaked, including Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna and Kim Kardashian, are now threatening to go to...
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1.0KLatest HeadlinesOBAMA: ‘We Underestimated ISIS Threat’
Publicly announcing that US intelligence agencies “underestimated” the presence and activity of Islamic State militants in Syria, US President Barack Obama in...
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1.0KIn The NewsTRANSPARENCY? Obama Administration Reportedly ‘Blocking’ Information From Press
Do you recall when Obama campaigned and promised to have the most transparent presidency in history? As we’ve seen to date, this...
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799Latest HeadlinesMysterious, Unidentified Spying Cell Towers All Across Washington, D.C.
Washington, DC is littered with surveillance devices designed to trick surrounding mobile phones into logging onto signal-lifting networks, thereby allowing for tracking...
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806In The NewsWikiLeaks’ Assange: ‘Google Works Just Like The NSA’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange equated Google with the National Security Agency and GCHQ, saying the tech giant has become “a privatized version...
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841In The NewsLouisiana Police Killed Man, Lied To Mother About Death For 6 Months
It took a Louisiana mother six months to learn that police had killed her son during a scuffle. She believed he had...
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1.0KLatest HeadlinesReading, Writing, M16s, and MRAPS: US education getting schooled over militarization
Just one month after the shooting death of African-American teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer, which brought military-grade vehicles and...
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750In The NewsFlorida city drops saggin-pants law after NAACP lawsuit
A controversial ban on saggy pants in Ocala City, Florida, has been pulled up after a threatened lawsuit from the civil rights...
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799ArchivesMike Brown jury gets extension, charges for Ferguson officer may be delayed until January
A St. Louis judge has granted an extension to the grand jury that has been tasked with deciding whether to charge a...
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1.2KLatest HeadlinesUS Department of Justice launches new intel-gathering program to ‘counter extremism’
The US Department of Justice said it is launching a national pilot program in a number of cities to try and detect...
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953Latest Headlines[WATCH] US Navy nurse facing expulsion and losing career after refusing to force feed Gitmo detainees
A Navy nurse who refused to force feed hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees over the summer, once threatened with court-martial, could now lose his...
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873Latest HeadlinesFBI’s facial recognition program hits ‘full operational capability’
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Next Generation Identification System, a biometric database reliant on tens of millions of facial-recognition records, is now...
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998In The NewsSUPREME COURT JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: ‘Drones will create Orwellian future’
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has voiced concerns that, without sufficient protections, the age of unmanned drones and ubiquitous surveillance will...
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891In The News[WATCH]DC cop under fire by own chief after harassing man filming arrest
The Police Chief in Washington, DC, is speaking out against one of her officers and in support of a man who stopped...
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855Latest Headlines[VIDEO]’His hands were up!’ New footage shows Ferguson witnesses reacting to teen’s death
New footage of the moments just after Ferguson, Missouri teenager Michael Brown was killed by a local police officer indicates that a...
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923Latest HeadlinesVETO: Missouri lawmakers approve 72-hour wait for abortions
Missouri’s Republican-dominated Legislature voted late Wednesday to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s earlier veto of a bill that institutes a 72-hour waiting period...