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Duane Buck: Death Penalty Appeal Denied
The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Texas death row inmate who was sentenced to death after a psychiatrist told jurors that his race made him more likely to pose a “future danger” to the public…
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MARIJUANA is now legal under state law for medical purposes in 16 states and the District of Columbia, encompassing nearly one-third of the American population. More than 1,000 dispensaries provide medical marijuana; many are well regulated by state and local law and pay substantial taxes. But though more than 70 percent of Americans support legalizing medical marijuana, any use of marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
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Most Of U.S. Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits | Fox News
The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.
Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America’s 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.
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Airport screening process may be revamped, TSA chief says – latimes.com
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Death may close Occupy Vancouver encampment | MarketWatch.com
Vancouver, Canada, mayor says the tent city must be disbanded after death of protester.
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The Islamist Bloc? | Foreign Policy – By Ahmed Charai and Joseph Braude
Just because you think you know one of the Arab World’s new Islamists doesn’t mean you know them all.
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BBC News – Sharon Bialek accuses Herman Cain of groping her
She is the fourth woman to accuse him of sexual misconduct in the last week.
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Mike Huckabee Compares Sexual Harassment To Ordering Chicken At Popeyes
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The Next Chapter: Municipalities Are Using Chapter 9 to Fend Off Creditors – Magazine – ABA Journal
Rex Wall was a firefighter and fire marshal in Prichard, Ala., for more than three decades. He always said he could have made more money in the private sector, but he loved being a fireman.
Plus the city offered comfortable pension benefits after only 30 years of consecutive service. The lower paychecks and the long hours were rewarded with the ability for him to retire in his late 50s. In addition, state law required Prichard to pay his pension.
“It’s not like the government can go bankrupt,” he jokingly told friends. “What could go wrong?”
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Anti-Abortion Violence Missing In Government’s Main Terrorism Database
Though the database includes the 2009 murder of prominent abortion doctor George Tiller by an anti-abortion extremist, it is effectively whitewashed, making no reference to abortion in the entire entry. In the summary, Tiller is described merely as a “medical doctor,” even though he and his clinic had been a target of anti-abortion activists for years. …
The question of whether to include attacks on abortion providers is more than a matter of keeping score. As the conservative blow back over a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report warning of rising right-wing extremism illustrated, even talking about a link between certain ideologies and violence can cause politically problems.
The report, which did not specifically address anti-abortion groups, sparked a firestorm of protest from conservatives and veterans groups, which objected to the conclusion that extremist groups may try to recruit veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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…a poll of 1,619 people on Oct. 5 debunked the stereotype that supporters of Occupy Wall Street are mostly unemployed. The poll found that only 12 percent of the protesters were unemployed. Forty-seven percent of the protesters reported having a full-time job and 20 percent reported having a part-time job.
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US Drones Killing Children in Pakistan: One Reporter’s Story | AlterNet • Pratap Chatterjee
The death of Tariq Aziz and his 12-year-old cousin Waheed Khan brought the total number of children killed in drone strikes to 175. …As part of an ongoing investigation, the Bureau has documented 306 strikes from remotely piloted drones that have killed between 2,359 and 2,959 people. Over 85% of them have been launched by the administration of President Barack Obama.
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Many dead and missing in Colombia landslides | AJE
Landslides in several cities, caused by unusually heavy rain, leave 29 people dead and dozens missing.
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Arab League plans emergency talks on Syria | AJE
Foreign ministers schedule new meeting for Saturday after they say the government has failed to implement peace plan.
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Death toll in Thailand floods crosses 500 | AJE
Advancing pools of polluted black water now threaten Bangkok’s underground railway system.
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