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Death Toll Continues to Rise After Devastating Oklahoma Tornado

AFP

The Oklahoma medical examiner's office gave the latest death toll, which was carried by all the major US television networks, which said the number of fatalities was expected to rise.

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Horrifying New Trend: Posting Rapes to Facebook

By Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Elderly Woman Dies in Court "Gasping for Breath" After Sheriff's Deputies "Callously" Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims

By Iulia Filip / Courthouse News

Moyers/Winship: Corporate Greed Is Poisoning America — Literally

By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

Drug Testing Purveyor Absurdly Tries to Blame Boston Bombing on ... Pot?

By Russ Belville / AlterNet

Drug Testing Purveyor Absurdly Tries to Blame Boston Bombing on ... Pot?

Tourists Encouraged to Gawk At, Mock Poor in Horrifying "GHETTO" Bus Tour in Bronx

12-Year-Old Girl Raped, Video Posted to Facebook by Alleged Attackers

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80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator: Why I Got Arrested Protesting Right-Wing Agenda for Schools

Barbara Parramore / AlterNet

There's a Major Assault on Democracy and the Public Good in Chicago, Led by Rahm Emanuel

Henry A. Giroux / Truthout

The Similarities Between the Charter School Movement and the War on Drugs

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / TruthOut.org

GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should Starve Rather Than Get Food Stamps

Justin Doolittle / Daily Kos

Tourists Encouraged to Gawk At, Mock Poor in Horrifying "GHETTO" Bus Tour in Bronx

Alex Kane / AlterNet

9 Things You Should Know About the New Farm Bill

Patty Lovera / Food and Water Watch

12-Year-Old Girl Raped, Video Posted to Facebook by Alleged Attackers

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Towns' Latino Community Totally Unsurprised That Police Beat Man to Death for No Reason and Tried to Cover it Up

Sandy Close and Raj Jayadev / New America Media

New York City Principals: 'We Won’t Use Test Scores to Screen Students'

Philissa Cramer / Gotham Schools

Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Would Force Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police -- Or Face 1 Year in Jail

Ian Millhiser / Think Progress

Just How Many Journalists Is the Justice Department Spying On?

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Corporations Are Stealing Billions in Tax Breaks, While the Confused, Screwed Citizenry Turn On Each Other

Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog

Pot Opponents' New Plan: Ban Images of Pot, Even Where Pot Is Legal

David Sirota / Salon

Teen Girl Faces Felony Charge Over Lesbian Relationship, Mom Blames "Religious Zealot Parents"

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Former "Hero" Cop Accused of Raping Women at Gun Point

AlterNet

Shocker: Republicans Fight Obama Plan to Privatize the Hugely Popular, Cheap Energy Source of the TVA

Gar Alperovitz, Thomas Hanna / AlterNet

What is Paper Terrorism? Anti-Gov't Nuts File Tens of Thousands of False Docs as "Sovereign Citizens"

Jillian Rayfield / Salon

Four Examples from the Last Week Prove Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Climate Protection

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks

Deborah Burger / AlterNet

4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

7 Teenagers Arrested for End-Of-Year Water Balloon Prank

AlterNet

The Other IRS Scandal: Outright War Against Marijuana Dispensaries

Clarence Walker / Drug War Chronicle

NYPD Arrested and Committed Woman to Psychiatric Ward for Legally Baring Breasts

Courthouse News

Republican Congressman: 'Abortion on Demand' Causes School Shootings

Ian Millhiser / Think Progress

Colbert Deconstructs 3D Printed Guns

AlterNet

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