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Tensions Flare Over Controversial Fracking Bill In Germany
The newly proposed law takes a middle-of-the-road approach to the polarizing issue – imposing strict rules on fracking while failing to outlaw the gas drilling process outright.
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A Surge of Student Strikes Upsets Romania
Protesting students are demanding 6% of Romania's gross domestic product be allotted to education.
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The FBI Violated Its Own Rules While Spying On Keystone XL Opponents
Internal documents reveal that the agency failed to get approval before it cultivated informants and opened files on individuals protesting against the construction of the pipeline in Texas.
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Senate Democrats Knock Down Obama's Trade Agenda, Saying No to Fast Track
Members of the party banded together to prevent the Senate from considering legislation that would give the president the authority to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership unamended.
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Homelessness in Los Angeles Rises 12%
A sluggish economic recovery has left the poorest residents of the second-largest U.S. metropolitan area falling farther behind.
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Police at the Freddie Gray Protest in Austin Proved Just How Much They Love Pepper Spray
An unexpected use of chemical weapons by officers in the Texas capital has a police accountability expert questioning their training.
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Baltimore Revelations: Thousands of Suspects Arrive Too Injured To Go To Jail
Records obtained by the Baltimore Sun show that correctional officers refused to admit nearly 2,600 severely injured detainees who were in police custody between 2012 and 2015.
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California Leads New Community Energy Model Speeding U.S. Move To Renewables
Sewage and solar power may be odd bedfellows in the race to save the climate. But in Sonoma County, Calif., an experiment is underway to install the nation’s largest floating solar array on wastewater treatment ponds.
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Dodd-Frank Is Working – That's Why Congress and Wall Street Are Trying to Kill It
Wall Street hates reform for a reason – and a closer look shows why.
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We're Building a Moral Commons, and We're All in This Together
The scars of our fear smolder in Baltimore and other cities, but as we turn towards one another we need to feed another part of ourselves – collective justice, economic justice, materialized empathy.
