Articles focusing on politics

First female black student-president at nation’s most expensive prep school is forced to resign after ‘offensive’ photographs of her mocking ‘typical white classmates’ emerge online

Maya Peterson was Lawrenceville School’s first black, female student body president By James King Article Reprint The former black student body president at a pricey New Jersey prep school was forced to resign from her

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Could Drones Finally Expose One Of The Country’s Most Secretive Industries?

By Tara Culp-Ressler Article Reprint Are aerial drones the answer we need to a wave of state laws seeking to criminalize efforts to expose health hazards and inhumane practices on corporate farms? One animal rights

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Obama to seek $2B for border control

mprnews.org Article Reprint President Barack Obama will seek more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas and ask for new

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Federal judge upholds Colorado gun laws, dismisses lawsuit

DENVER (Reuters) – A federal judge upheld gun laws on Thursday introduced by Colorado in the wake of deadly shooting rampages there and in Connecticut, dismissing a lawsuit brought by sheriffs, gun shops, outfitters and

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City Hall Rapper Fixes Potholes, Kills Rats and Geeks Out on Infrastructure

  By Mark Konkol Article Reprint [CHICAGO THE LOOP] — The most important person at City Hall is an opera-singing rapper — and, thank goodness, it’s not Mayor Emanuel.

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Central Park Five Settlement: Would you sit in Jail for a Million Dollars a Year?

By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Last Thursday an settlement was reached in the wrongful conviction case of five men accused of raping a Central Park jogger in 1989. Forty million dollars was rewarded to the

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Rep. Issa Expects ‘Long Night’ Questioning IRS Commissioner

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com   By Wanda Carruthers Article Reprint Rep. Darrell Issa, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, said he expects a long night Monday, as the committee questions IRS Commissioner

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Secret trade agreement covering 68 percent of world services published by WikiLeaks

endthelie.com Article Reprint The text of a 19-page, international trade agreement being drafted in secret was published by WikiLeaks on Thursday as the transparency group’s editor commemorated his two-year anniversary confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy

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