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Bernie Sanders Announces Anti-Outsourcing Bill

‘We need to send a very loud and very clear message to corporate America: the era of outsourcing is over’

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By Nadia Prupis
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has introduced legislation to ensure that a key campaign promise of President-elect Donald Trump comes to pass—keeping American jobs in America. In a statement issued Saturday, the former Democratic presidential candidate took a stand against the air conditioner manufacturer United Technologies (UTX), which is

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Nepotism Strikes Again: Ivanka Trump Joined Call With Argentina President

Charges of nepotism didn’t stop Ivanka Trump from joining meeting with a head of state for second time in a week

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By Nadia Prupis
Ivanka Trump, daughter of President-elect Donald Trump, arrives at Trump Tower, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Nepotism continues in the Trump administration, as the President-elect reportedly let his daughter Ivanka sit in on a call with neoliberal Argentinian President Mauricio Macri. Macri, who was elected last year in a runoff against leftist populist candidate Daniel Scioli, told the Japanese outlet Asahi Shimbun on Monday that he considered Trump

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Hundreds of Armed Police Descend On Water Protectors Trying To Reach DAPL Site

Amidst the standoff one peaceful demonstrator said she was telling officers that she “Loved them” when they began shooting her in the face with mace.

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By Nadia Prupis

Police descended on water protectors in North Dakota on Wednesday, as images on social media showed a dramatic standoff along a creek that borders a construction site for the long-opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Jordan Chariton, a political reporter with The Young Turks network, posted this video dispatch after covering events just east

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Court Reinstates Torture Case Against Abu Ghraib Military Contractor

Ruling rejects CACI’s argument that its conduct was outside the court’s bounds, stating, “It is beyond the power of even the president to declare [torture] lawful”

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By Nadia Prupis
ABU GHRAIB PRISON

An appellate court on Friday reinstated a lawsuit against a private military contractor accused of torturing detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, reversing a lower court decision that dismissed the case and rejecting the defendant's claim that the issue of torture was beyond the court's jurisdiction. The Fourth Circuit Court of

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ACLU Demands Secret Court Hand Over Crucial Rulings On Surveillance Law

“The people of this country can’t hold the government accountable for its surveillance activities unless they know what our laws allow”

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By Nadia Prupis
Surveillance

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a motion to reveal the secret court opinions with "novel or significant interpretations" of surveillance law, in a renewed push for government transparency. The motion, filed Wednesday by the ACLU and Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, asks the Foreign Intelligence

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Secret FBI Report: ‘Homegrown Terrorists’ Motivated By US Acts Abroad

Secret 2012 report also finds that prison time, military service, international travel did not “significantly contribute” to radicalization

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By Nadia Prupis
Smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following US airstrikes outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border Monday, Nov. 17, 2014.

Anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited factor in motivating "homegrown terrorists," according to a secret FBI study reviewed by The Intercept on Tuesday. The study, conducted in 2012 and titled Homegrown Violent Extremists: Survey Confirms Key Assessments, Reveals New Insights About Radicalization, also found that

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New Documents Show US Knew Helping Saudis in Yemen Could Be War Crime

Officials doubted Saudi military could target Houthi militants without hurting civilians or destroying infrastructure, Reuters reports.

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By Nadia Prupis
President Barack Obama meets new Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015.

As the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia comes under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the Gulf nation's weekend bombing campaign in Yemen, a Reutersexclusive published Monday reveals that the Obama administration approved a $1.3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia last year despite warnings that it could implicate the U.S. in war

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