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Who will hold prosecutors accountable?
Dec 06, 2021 12:35Prosecutors are among the most powerful players in the criminal justice system. They can send a defendant off to years in prison, or even to death row. Most wield this power honorably. Yet, when prosecutors don’t, they rarely pay a price, even for repeated and egregious misconduct that puts innocent people behind bars.
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Pfizer is lobbying to thwart whistleblowers from exposing corporate fraud
Dec 06, 2021 12:30Pfizer is among the Big Pharma companies trying to block legislation strengthening whistleblowers’ ability to report corporate fraud.
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New report urges Biden to stop arms sales fueling Saudi 'devastation' of Yemen
Dec 06, 2021 12:24As the ongoing Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen's war continues to kill, maim, and displace civilians—over 300,000 of whom have died during more than seven years of fighting—a report published recently urges the Biden administration to end critical U.S. support for the atrocity-laden campaign by blocking pending arms sales and stopping future weapons transfers.
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Report says US military academies remain plagued by racism
Dec 06, 2021 12:16A new report reveals US military academies remain inundated by institutional racism despite minor gains since proclaiming anti-discrimination policies a decade ago to bring in more racially diverse students.
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Human rights groups call on Pentagon to reinvestigate civilian deaths in Yemen
Dec 05, 2021 14:22Activists want US War Secretary Lloyd Austin to open new investigations of past airstrikes, apologize for civilian deaths, and compensate relatives.
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Biden rebuked for plan to implement 'even worse' version of Trump's 'remain in Mexico' policy
Dec 05, 2021 14:20After the U.S. government announced that it has reached an agreement with Mexico to restart the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" program, immigrant rights advocates criticized the Biden administration for "hiding behind a flawed court order to justify" reviving a policy that forces asylum seekers to wait in makeshift camps along the southern border pending legal review of their cases.
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Russia, China poised to forge a greater alliance
Dec 05, 2021 07:07The Chinese President Xi Jinping's exceptional gesture toward the Russian President Vladimir Putin by personally conveying the invitation to the 2022 Winter Olympics in a phone call in August bears testimony to the high quality of the two countries’ “comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era.”
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Does the Omicron variant mean COVID is going to become more transmissible?
Dec 05, 2021 07:00In the case of coronavirus, there is also an obvious hole in the argument: transmission normally occurs before symptoms start or during the earliest stage of symptoms, meaning that severity of illness has little influence on the spread of the virus.
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Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden's victory
Dec 04, 2021 06:40Sources tell The Guardian former US President Donald Trump pressed lieutenants at Willard hotel in Washington about ways to delay certification of election result on 6 January.
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How many wars does Washington want? And for what?
Dec 03, 2021 15:35Over the last two decades US policymakers have blundered through Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen, frivolously sacrificing thousands of lives, wasting trillions of dollars, diverting essential resources, misusing patriotic personnel, and damaging national credibility – as well as killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions of people in foreign lands.