The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Pentagon Supplies School Districts with Assault Rifles, Grenade Launchers, M.R.A.P.'s
School districts nationwide are debating whether to keep their Pentagon-issued arsenals.
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Florida City Makes It Illegal To Sleep In Public, Cracking Down On Homeless
Life is tough when you're homeless. This city wants to make it tougher.
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Police Intelligence Targets Cash, As Training By Firm Fuels Questionable Law Tactics
Like elsewhere across America, the deputy sheriff of Kane County, Ill., has urged police to use cash seizures to bolster municipal coffers.
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Albuquerque Creates New Civilian Police Oversight Agency In Response To Killings
The decision comes after a Department of Justice report showed city police routinely engage in unconstitutional policing – and that a majority of recent fatal shootings were unjustified.
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California Lawmakers Want to Limit Police Drones, but Activists Want Them Banned
California lawmakers just passed new limits on how police can use drones, but some argue that only legitimizes their use and that police shouldn't have them at all.
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Protesters Beware: Don’t Get Stung By Stingrays
If you're planning to take to the streets in New York City or elsewhere this week, know that today's IMSI technology used by police or the FBI could greatly affect the privacy of your cell phone and protest communications.
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Snowden: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Isn’t Telling the Truth About Mass Surveillance
Any statement that mass surveillance is not performed in New Zealand is categorically false. If you live in there, you're being watched.
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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Unable to Account for Missing Military Style Weapons
The department was given equipment to fight terrorism but it's now being used to fight local communities.
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35 Arrested As Police Block Ferguson Highway Protest, and New Video of Killing Is Released
Three dozen people were arrested during a largely peaceful protest near Interstate 70
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Stop and Seize: How Aggressive Police Are Bilking Hundreds of Millions from Innocent Motorists
Thousands of people have been forced to fight legal battles that can last more than a year to get their money back since private police-training firms helped make “highway interdiction” the norm.
