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Judge Strikes Down Key Provision Of Texas Anti-Choice Law

Ruling overturns sweeping cuts to abortion access but leaves restrictions on medical abortions in place.

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In what reproductive justice advocates are hailing as a partial victory, a federal court struck down Monday a provision of the controversial Texas HB 2 anti-choice law that would have made abortion inaccessible for a third of all Texas women. Yet the ruling upheld the bill's provision for reduced access to medical abortions. U.S. District

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UK Tried To Obtain NSA Documents From New York Times

New York Times editor claims U.K. officials tried obtaining NSA related documents from the publication.

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New York Times editor Jill Abramson confirmed this weekend that UK officials had tried to convince her to hand over secret documents, which had been leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, after they found out the Times was working with the Guardian newspaper to sift through the materials. Abramson told the Guardian she was approached by the

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Acting With Impunity: The Case Of General Electric

Can the world’s biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to the eighth largest U.S. corporation, the answer appears to be “yes.”

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  By: Lawrence Wittner Can the world’s biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric (GE) -- the eighth largest U.S. corporation, with $146.9 billion in sales and $13.6 billion in profits in 2012 -- the answer appears to be “yes.” Let us begin with a small-scale case in upstate New York, where in late

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A Global Lost Generation: Youth Unemployment ‘Epidemic’ Is Borderless

International investigative report shows how financial crisis has set back an entire generation of workers.

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If you think high unemployment, especially youth unemployment, is a major problem in the country you live in—you're almost certainly right. But if you're not looking beyond the borders of your country, you're not seeing the big picture. According to a new investigative report by the Huffington Post, the global jobs crisis among the youthful

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Swiss Show The World How To Take On Pay Inequality

Swiss activists for equal pay rights submitted more than 100,000 signatures needed to get a vote on a guaranteed income from Parliament.

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There's a growing movement in Europe against pay inequality and the right for a basic income. Switzerland is one of Europe's richest countries but does not have a minimum wage law. But growing public activism over pay inequality since the 2008 financial crisis has already led to two referendum drives on CEO pay. In March 2013, Swiss voters

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Presidents Of Iran And The US Speak For First Time Since Iranian Revolution

A brief phone conversation between Presidents Obama and Rouhani furthered speculation that a U.S.-Iran détente is at hand.

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President Obama and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone on Friday night, the first time the leaders from the two country's have communicated directly in more than 30 years. As McClatchy, calling it a "stunning and unexpected development," reports: Obama made the unplanned call to Rouhani as the Shiite Muslim cleric was being

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Typhoon Forces Dumping Of Radioactive Water At Fukushima

TEPCO officials indicate measures were taken to avoid worse disaster, but it remains unclear how much water was pumped into ocean

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As Typhoon Man-Yi crashed into Japan on Monday with heavy winds and rain, the owners of the Fukushima nuclear power plant were forced to hurriedly pump rising levels of stored radioactive water into the ocean in order to fend off the threat of a further disaster. Ahead of the storm's landfall, fears were that high winds and rising waters could

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