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“We’ve looked at it and any impact at all would be non-material and we’re comfortable with our guidance as we go forward.”

The exaggerated fears that presaged Obama's new overtime rules are belied by retail executives telling investors the costs will have only modest impact.
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A new report details a stunning pattern of incompetence and disregard for protocol at every stage of Oklahoma's execution process.

Amid lingering doubts over Richard Glossip’s guilt, a new report slams the state’s bungled execution protocol while proposing new, improved ways to kill.
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Yahdih, whose brother has been held in Guantánamo for 14 years without being charged with a crime, came to the U.S. to meet with journalists and to thanks his brother's supporters.

Yahdih attempted to discuss his brother's case in DC but was questioned for hours on arrival and sent back to Germany.
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The indictments were hailed as a sign that justice is possible and helped ease tensions on the streets, but many question whether we can really expect police officers to be held accountable in court.

Prosecutors had sought to prove that Gray’s arrest was not only illegal, but that Officer Edward Nero’s role in it amounted to assault.
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Clinton State Department officials planned to spread fracking to 12 countries on four continents, even as some local governments expressed opposition to the drilling technique.

Newly disclosed emails show Clinton State Department officials working alongside fossil fuel companies aggressively pushing for fracking.
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"What they don’t realize is just how exceptional [Snowden] is. He actually got his message out and he lived to tell the tale."

A former assistant inspector general at the Pentagon who was responsible for protecting whistleblowers became one himself when the process failed.
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Leaked transcripts between a Brazilian senator and an oil executive, both implicated in the corruption scandal, provide proof that Rousseff's impeachment was really about ending the corruption investigation.

Until now, most new outlets have avoided calling the president's removal a "coup."
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The former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said whether or not the U.S. should kill terrorists' families is a "difficult political decision."

Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan responded: “Are you kidding me? What circumstances would justify the killing of a family – a wife and a child?”
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In 2014, 68,000 unaccompanied minors came to the U.S. to escape gang violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

In Los Angeles, refugees struggle to convince U.S. immigration authorities that they will be killed by gangs if they are sent home to El Salvador.
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The event is the latest example of how foreign policy no longer neatly aligns with party politics.

Charles Koch Institute hosts speakers you would be more likely to associate with a left-wing anti-war rally than a gathering hosted by a long-time right-wing institution.
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"Unless you get [Morley] Safer out of there, he’s liable to end up with a bullet in his back,” the Pentagon told CBS executives.

Arthur Sylvester, the Pentagon's PR chief, told Safer the facts of life in 1966 in Vietnam.
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Where does Texas get its execution drugs if not through companies like Pfizer? We’re not allowed to know the answer.

As Pfizer imposes a ban on using its products for execution, states continue to seek drugs in secret, from dubious sources.
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We're inviting outside journalists, including from foreign news outlets, to work with us to explore Edward Snowden archive.

We’ve begun to release large batches of Snowden documents to the public — and to open the archive to greater access by foreign and U.S. journalists.
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POEA, an undisclosed ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, is up to 2,000 times more toxic than the active ingredient.

As scientists have begun to puzzle out the mysterious “inert” ingredients of Roundup, evidence that these chemicals are harmful has begun to hit U.S. courts.
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The ballot initiatives may be the state's last best chance to slow fracking development.

Oil and gas companies are spending heavily to crush three Colorado ballot initiatives that would limit fracking. Some powerful Democrats are joining them.
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In the first months of the Iraq War, SIDtoday articles bragged about the NSA’s part in the run-up to the invasion and reflected the Bush administration’s confidence that Saddam Hussein had hidden weapons of mass destruction.

We combed through more than 160 internal NSA documents and found disclosures about interrogations at Guantánamo, the Iraq War, satellite-communications monitoring, the challenges of spying on the internet, and much more.
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From 2002 to 2012, California law enforcement agencies reaped $181.4 million from marijuana-related asset seizures.

Police and prison guard groups are terrified that they might lose some of the drug war money to which they have become so deeply addicted.
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Throughout his campaign, Trump has advocated for building two walls. One of those walls appears to be crumbling.

Trump is suddenly open to changes to all federal programs "including entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare,” as part of a deficit reduction effort.
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The young debaters dissected the topic with more intensity and sophistication than Congress ever has.

It was the culmination of a 2016 competitive debate season that saw nearly 20,000 young people across the country debate the pros and cons of surveillance.
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“Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.”

Arthur Sylvester, the Pentagon's PR chief, told Safer the facts of life in 1966 in Vietnam.
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