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11-Year-Old Transgender Girl Sadie Croft Writes Response to Obama Inaugural...

A young transgender girl who transitioned from male to female when she was in kindergarten has written to President Obama seeking recognition for her people. Gay rights advocates were positively...

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Drones, Targeted Killing of Americans, Torture Dominate John Brennan Senate...

Questions regarding enhanced interrogation, drone strikes and targeted killings dominated Thursday’s Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing for John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s...

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Obama Expected to Announce Major Cuts to US Nuclear Arsenal

President Barack Obama is expected to use Tuesday’s State of the Union address to announce plans to drastically slash the number of nuclear weapons in the nation’s arsenal. The New York Times reports...

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UN Report Slams US Killing, Torture of Children; Obama Support for Countries...

A new United Nations report slams the United States and the Obama administration for killing and torturing children, for allowing the paramilitary recruitment of US children as young as 11, and for...

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Chicago Teen Mom Janay McFarlane Shot Dead Hours after Sister Attends Obama...

A young Chicago mother was shot to death just hours after her younger sister attended President Barack Obama’s speech condemning gun violence. The Chicago Tribune reports that Janay McFarlane, 18, was...

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Association of 34,000 Black Churches Condemns Obama’s “Evil” Drone Policy

A national association of black churches has issued a strongly-worded condemnation of President Barack Obama’s use of unmanned aerial drones in the War on Terror. Colorlines reports that the National...

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Obama Administration Asserts Power to Kill Americans on US Soil without...

The Obama administration has officially served notice to all Americans that it has the power to kill you, in your home or anywhere in your country, without charge or trial, if it really wants to....

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‘The Moral High Ground’: Rand Paul Delivers Epic Senate Filibuster Against...

It’s a sad day in America when a Tea Party Republican is the most progressive congressional voice defending our civil liberties. But all political prejudice aside, a Tea Party Republican has pretty...

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White House Spokesman Jay Carney: Obama Won’t Use Drones Against Americans on...

President Obama does not have the authority to order lethal drone strikes against Americans on US soil, the White House announced today in response to Sen. Rand Paul’s epic filibuster. Politico reports...

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Obama Signs Pro-GMO ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ Into Law

Hidden inside a short-term congressional resolution that averts a government shutdown is an alarming rider that protects genetically modified seeds from lawsuits in the event of potential health risks....

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Senate Rejects Expanded Gun Background Checks

The US Senate rejected a compromise deal that would have expanded background checks on firearms purchases after the measure’s sponsors failed to collect enough votes to avoid a Republican filibuster....

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Torturing Guantánamo’s Hunger Strikers

Hunger striking detainees at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, many of them deemed no threat and cleared for release for years, are being tortured by their American captors through...

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White House: Obama Could Order Attack on Syria

The White House announced that President Barack Obama could authorize a military attack against Syria following reports that government forces used chemical weapons against rebel fighters. White House...

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New York Times Calls Guantánamo Bay a “Political Prison”

The New York Times published an editorial on Thursday in which it called the US military detention center at Guantánamo Bay “essentially a political prison.” The editorial board of the nation’s...

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Obama Delivers Major Foreign Policy Speech on Drones, Targeted Killing,...

President Barack Obama delivered a major foreign policy speech on Thursday in which he addressed hot-button issues including drones, civilian casualties, force-feeding of hunger striking Guantánamo...

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Spinning Surveillance via Discredited NSA Talking Points

Steve Rendall, FAIR Appearing on the Charlie Rose show last night (6/17/13), Barack Obama said the NSA’s secret domestic surveillance program is “transparent” because all requests are reviewed by a...

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Obama: Like Nixon, But Worse

Timothy Karr, Free Press Is Barack Obama like Richard Nixon? Until recently that pairing seemed odd. Obama and Nixon are leaders from different generations, leading different parties with distinctly...

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Obama Cancels Meeting with Russia’s Putin over Snowden Decision

Susan Heavy and Mark Felsenthal, Cyprus Mail U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday abruptly canceled a Moscow summit with President Vladimir Putin planned for next month in a retaliation for...

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Racism Rears Its Ugly Head at Phoenix Anti-Obama Protest

Racism reared its ugly head in Arizona on Tuesday at a protest against President Barack Obama’s visit to a Phoenix high school. The president visited Desert Vista High School on Tuesday, part of an...

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Obama’s Hypocrisy Re: Russia’s Anti-Gay Law

Once again, President Barack Obama has demonstrated the sort of staggering hypocrisy for which US leaders are so often criticized around the world. This time, it was about gays and Russia, specifically...

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