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US Customs and border protection plans vast expansion of tech-based surveillance (3)
Apr 14, 2021 09:59US President Joe Biden might not be building a physical border wall, but he is continuing to expand an infrastructure designed to deter migrants from crossing into the U.S. Though he has distanced himself from Donald Trump’s immigration policy, the Biden administration’s plan would see the U.S. government lean into its reliance on technology at the southern border, where Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is currently expanding one of the most ambitious surveillance systems ever created.
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Biden’s inhumanity on Syria
Apr 13, 2021 12:22The U.S. hypocrisy to come will be even greater than anything tried by the Trump administration.
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Get out of Afghanistan
Apr 13, 2021 12:20US political and military leaders are allergic to admitting failure no matter how overwhelming the evidence of that failure may be. An entire generation of politicians and officers has been involved in selling the war with misleading and false claims of progress.
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US Customs and border protection plans vast expansion of tech-based surveillance (2)
Apr 13, 2021 04:36US President Joe Biden might not be building a physical border wall, but he is continuing to expand an infrastructure designed to deter migrants from crossing into the U.S.
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‘A tremendous complication’: G.O.P. dances around Trump’s lingering presence
Apr 12, 2021 04:58The first spring donor retreat after a defeat for a political party is typically a moment of reflection and renewal as officials chart a new direction forward. But with former President Donald Trump determined to keep his grip on the Republican Party and the party’s base as adhered to him as ever, the coming together of the Republican National Committee’s top donors in South Florida this weekend is less a moment of reset and more a reminder of the continuing tensions roiling the G.O.P.
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‘Clear the Capitol’: Pence plea amid riot retold in dramatic Pentagon document
Apr 12, 2021 04:51A previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use reveals dramatic new details about how authorities sought to quell the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and re-establish order – and how such help took agonizing hours in coming.
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More than two-thirds of American students want police out of schools
Apr 11, 2021 15:33A new survey of more than 600 middle and high school students across four American states finds that 41 percent feel “very unsafe” or “unsafe” when they see police officers at their public schools.
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Moth-eaten eviction moratorium leaves hundreds of thousands of Americans without a roof
Apr 11, 2021 15:28During the pandemic, American landlords have filed for 284,490 evictions – and that’s just in five states and 27 cities. But how could this be? After all, a moratorium shouldn’t allow for hundreds of thousands of households to fall through the cracks.
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Khanna criticizes Biden for proposing Pentagon budget larger than Trump's
Apr 11, 2021 04:10US Congressman Ro Khanna of California was the first House Democrat to speak out against President Joe Biden's request for a $715 billion Pentagon budget for Fiscal Year 2022, an increase from the current $704 billion level approved under former President Donald Trump.
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Scientists warn 4°c world would unleash 'unimaginable amounts of water' as ice shelves collapse
Apr 11, 2021 04:01A study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found that over a third of the area of all Antarctic ice shelves—including 67% of area on the Antarctic Peninsula—could be at risk of collapsing if global temperatures soar to 4°C above pre-industrial levels.