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Suit Alleges IRS Improperly Seized 60 Million Personal Medical Records

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The Internal Revenue Service is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that more than 60 million personal medical records were improperly seized by agents...   Read More

Only Six Percent of Americans Think Marijuana Possession Should Be Punished With Jail Time

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Only six percent of Americans think minor marijuana possession should be punishable by jail time, according to a new Reason-Rupe poll. The poll also found...   Read More

Iraq in ruins: Post-war life overshadowed by crumbling infrastructure, corruption, poverty

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Despite Iraq being rich in natural resources and the US pouring money into its economy for over a decade, Iraqi infrastructure is constantly failing...   Read More

A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting

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Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits and...   Read More

Richest Man Slim Cited for Profiting From Phones for Poor

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Congressional Republicans want to rein in a $2.2 billion U.S. mobile-phone subsidy for the poor, saying it’s riddled with fraud and benefits the world’s richest...   Read More

South Korea: Close Friend Of The U.S., And A Defense Welfare Queen

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Despite North Korea’s many threats to turn South Korea’s capital of Seoul into a “lake of fire,” the city acts pretty normal. Residents say...   Read More

America can’t afford the real cost of Guantánamo

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In his April 30 press conference, President Obama responded to a reporter’s question about the hunger strikers at Guantánamo with a promise to reengage...   Read More

DOJ: We don’t need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats

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The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI believe they don’t need a search warrant to review Americans’ e-mails, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages,...   Read More

IRS scrutiny went beyond Tea Party, targeting of conservative groups broader than thought

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An IRS campaign to apply additional scrutiny to conservative groups went beyond targeting “Tea Party” and “patriot” groups to include those focused on government...   Read More

Government seizes AP phone records

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The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top...   Read More

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