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Federal Judge To Vets Sick From Chemical Weapons Testing: Get In Line

Veterans sickened from chemical weapons testing must seek treatment through VA hospitals, despite enormous backlogs.

Mint Press News Desk
Por Mint Press News Desk

Thousands of U.S. military veterans exposed to chemical weapons such as mustard gas and lewisite as part of the military’s secret weapons testing programs may be entitled to updated information from the government about the health hazards they may face, but a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that veterans won’t be able to receive government-funded

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Faith-Based Group Challenges Cuban Embargo, One Humanitarian Trip At A Time

Pastors for Peace has defied the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba for the 24th consecutive year.

Martin Michaels
Por Martin Michaels

For the 24th consecutive year, Pastors for Peace, a faith-based organization with headquarters in New York, is in Cuba delivering humanitarian aid and defying a 51-year-old embargo on virtually all forms of U.S. aid and travel to the island. It continues a decades-long tradition by thousands of Americans who have challenged the travel ban and

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6 Ways Congress Might Reform NSA Snooping

There’s significant support in Congress to reform NSA surveillance programs. Here are six other legislative proposals on the table.

Kara Brandeisky
Por Kara Brandeisky

Although the House defeated a measure that would have defunded the bulk phone metadata collection program, the narrow 205-217 vote showed that there is significant support in Congress to reform NSA surveillance programs. Here are six other legislative proposals on the table.   1) Raise the standard for what records are considered

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Another Public Hospital Goes Private

Employees at a Louisiana State University hospital will be laid off as the hospital transitions to private ownership.

Katie Rucke
Por Katie Rucke

Hospital employees at Louisiana State University’s Health Shreveport hospital will be laid off as the hospital transitions to private ownership later this fall, but they will be able to begin re-applying for their jobs starting at the beginning of August. While much of the world has universal health care systems that rely on publicly owned or

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Justice Department Fights Back After Supreme Court, GOP Target Voting Rights

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to take aim at a string of restrictive voting laws across the U.S.

Mint Press News Desk
Por Mint Press News Desk

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to take aim at a string of restrictive voting laws across the U.S. following a 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act earlier this summer. At the heart of the controversy is Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which required nine states -- mostly

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Phishing Schemes, Feds Demanding Passwords Make For A Scary Internet

Privacy invasion on the web has reached a new level.

Katie Lentsch
Por Katie Lentsch

Privacy invasion on the web has reached a new level. The federal government has demanded web firms provide access to user passwords, and phishing emails have been filling email inboxes at an ever-increasing rate -- making Internet security even more shaky in the wake of the leak of details about National Security Agency surveillance

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