Articles focusing on politics

Haitians Risk Their Lives to Reach the U.S.

By Daphne R Article Reprint When severe weather strikes in the Caribbean causing hazardous sea conditions and winds capable of large waves, the last thing you want to do is leave the harbor to sail

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Federally Funded Catholic Relief Services Paid Future Obama Ambassador $384K

By Michael W. Chapman Article Reprint – Ken Hackett, the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, previously headed the non-profit charity Catholic Relief Services (CRS), which receives hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. government

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On the Death of Nelson Mandela – from Revolution newspaper

On December 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95. In the coming period, revcom.us/Revolution will have more reporting and analysis of the significance of the struggle against the brutal racist apartheid regime

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Nelson Mandela, revered statesman and anti-apartheid leader, dies at 95

By: Yahoo News Article Reprint Former South African President Nelson Mandela has died at age 95 of complications from a recurring lung infection.

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Federal Drug Defendants Who Don’t Plead Guilty Spend Three Times Longer In Prison, Report Finds

By Nicole Flatow Article Reprint In a landmark 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the right to a lawyer during plea bargaining, Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that 95 percent of convicted U.S. criminal defendants enter

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The Greatest Trick The Supreme Court Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World Roe v. Wade Still Exists

By Ian Millhiser and Tara Culp-Ressler Article Reprint We first heard from Marni Evans a few days after she’d received an ominous voicemail. “I am calling from your doctor’s office,” the message began. An appointment

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Egypt to Settle $1.5 Billion Owned to Oil Firms

abcnews.go.com Article Reprint Egypt is committed to pay nearly a quarter of the total arrears it owes foreign oil companies and increase economic growth to 3.5 percent by the end of the fiscal year, in

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Detroit bankruptcy given green light as judge says it should have happened years ago and thousands of workers and retirees protest over pension cuts

Judge Steven Rhodes ruled that city is eligible to shed billions of dollars of debt that accumulated during the city’s decades-long decline By Associated Press Reporter Article Reprint Detroit is eligible to shed billions of

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