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New Report: Blacks are ‘Beyond Broke’

Death Of Another Unarmed US Citizen Tests Border Patrol’s Use Of Force Policy

Bob Bergdahl Remains Calm at Center of Storm Over Son Released by Taliban

CIA Blows Up Twitter With First Tweet

GOP’s Firing Squad Idiocy: The Hypocrisy of “Humane Executions”

Feds Step Up Pressure for LA County Jail Reforms

University Presidents Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank While the People Who Work for Them Are on Food Stamps

How Eliminating Tar Sands Fuel Would Make Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper Climate Change Leaders

You Wouldn't Believe How Easily a Domestic Abuser Can Get a Gun

Death Throes: The Mainstream Media Is Hanging By a Thread

The Right's Turn Away from Representative Government

America’s White Supremacists Ecstatic Over Results of European Parliamentary Elections
-- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Recognition, Representation, Redistribution: "A Precariat Charter" for Systemic Change

At Least One Federal Judge Got Tough on Wall Street, but His Ruling Got Overturned
-- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

Occupy: How Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Victory Began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park

Ben Carson: Obamacare Is Worse Than 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

Hobby Lobby President's Bible Curriculum Provides Faulty Lessons On Slavery, Women's Suffrage And Albert Einstein

Deadly Shooting at Seattle University

Is It Legal to Try Executing Someone Twice?
The Ohio Supreme Court will decide whether Romell Broom should put to death—again.

Electoral Extremism: A Look at Five More Far-Right Candidates

The Lessons Maureen Dowd's Weed Sherpa Wants Everyone to Take From Her Bad Trip
"I think this is an example of why we need to follow directions."

US Adds 217K Jobs in May

Activists Target House Members Who Oppose Medical Marijuana

Sanders, McCain Reach VA Deal
Sens. Bernie Sanders and John McCain announced a deal on legislation to reform the VA’s troubled health system amid a scandal over long wait times for treatment.

Bowe Bergdahl: "We Don't Even Care... About Running Their Children Down in the Dirt Streets"

Questions Raised About Integrity of Keystone XL's Southern Route After Conditions Added for Northern Leg

Did A Tea-Party Group Just Illegally Coordinate With Chris McDaniel?

Stop-and-Frisk Comes to Jackson?
At about 11 p.m. on the evening of May 20, Tolu Olorunda was walking back to his west Jackson residence from a late dinner when a Jackson police officer stopped him and started asking questions.

Public Banking & Economic Democracy

Keystone XL Is an Easy Terror Target, Says Retired Navy SEAL Chief

Mississippi Police Probe Actions by Tea Party Senate Candidate's Supporters

Officials: Congress Not Told of Swap Because Taliban Threatened to Kill Bergdahl if It Leaked

The World is Yours: Kids Take the Lead in the Climate Fight

SATIRE: America Finally Surrenders to Britain

Paul Krugman | The Unlucky Unemployed

No Water, No Toilet Paper, No Tampons: How the US Treats Border Detainees
A new lawsuit reveals the awful conditions migrants face in Customs and Border Protection custody.

How Acidification, Overfishing and Plastics Threaten the World’s Oceans
-- Dr. David Suzuki of EcoWatch on BuzzFlash at Truthout

If You Needed Further Proof Racism Is Not Dead

Obama’s Climate Regulations: A Step in the Right Direction, but Nowhere Close to What We Need
How about a 40 percent cut by 2030 based on 1990 levels?

For Immigrants Who Return After Deportation, Little Chance at Due Process, Say Advocates

The Obama Administration's Ongoing Assault on Freedom of the Press
-- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Democrats Unveil Program to Boost Voter Registration

CNN Trots Out Wingnut Islamophobe Birther-King Frank Gaffney as Foreign Policy Expert

Failed Senate Candidate Arrested for Perjury, Election Fraud

A Flood of Indifference
A hundred thousand buildings were destroyed and a million people affected by a devastating cyclone in the Balkans earlier this month. Why didn’t the media notice?

Court to Censure Montana Judge Over Rape Comments

Reverend William J. Barber: Why I Marched on McDonald’s

The Real Reason the US Didn’t Rescue Bowe Bergdahl
After a second escape attempt, the American hostage was being moved so often, American commandos would’ve had to raid a dozen safe houses in Pakistan at once.

Officials in Bergdahl's Hometown: Stop the Hate

480 Miles, 37 Days, 1 Mission: The California March for Democracy

New EPA Carbon Standards Give Kids a Fighting Chance

Guantanamo Closure Still In The Works As U.S. Reduces Backlog Of Detainees, Official Says

US Secret Service Wants Software to “Detect Sarcasm” on Social Media

Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies

Bill Maher Points Out The Obvious On Why Gitmo Prisoners Can't Be Tried - We Tortured Them

It Wasn’t Abortion That Formed the Religious Right. It Was Support for Segregation

William Rivers Pitt | "Men's Rights" and the Septic Tank of History

Hope After Violence
Women are twice as likely as men to experience PTSD. We just don’t talk about it.

Tennessee Man Accidentally Shoots, Kills Self While Driving

Locked in the Courthouse
Can the race for the Mississippi Republican Senate nomination look any more like playground pretense of what a political campaign should be?

Paul Krugman | Energy Choices

The Corporate War Media’s Cruel and Irresponsible Lynching of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
-- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout

John Oliver Crashes FCC Comments System After Net Neutrality Segment

92-Year Old Woman Loses Right To Vote Due to Expired Drivers License in Alabama

Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires That Allow State Surveillance

70 Years Ago Today: Memories From Normandy
Seventy years later, four veterans of the largest amphibious invasion in history recall their experiences.

Hillary Clinton and the Weaponization of the State Department

The Derailment of the SEC – Part IV: New Allegations That a Former SEC Official Lied to Federal Investigators; the Unlikely Source Is His Own Law Partner

The Common Roots of Misogynist Culture in Pakistan and the US

SATIRE: First Draft of Maureen Dowd's Marijuana Column

David Swanson | Mass Murderers Brazenly Hold Conference, Discuss Tools of Trade

The GOP Will Regret Overreaching on Bergdahl
It's unseemly. It's hypocritical. And it's going to backfire.

The GOP Is Heading For a World of Hurt on Bergdahl, Here's Why

Report: Cliven Bundy Owes US Gov't More Money Than All Other Ranchers Combined

White House Working Closely With Sen. Sanders on VA Bill

DREAMers Can Renew Deferred Deportations, But Press For More

Someone Left A Loaded Gun in the Toy Aisle of a Target in South Carolina

"Border Patrol Nation": How US Creates War Zones at Boundaries With Mexico, Canada

World’s Worst Bergdahl Hypocrite: The Despicable Return of Oliver North
You haven't heard it all until you've heard disgraced Iran-Contra official Oliver North blast the Bergdahl deal

Late Libertarian Icon Murray Rothbard on Charles Koch: He "Considers Himself Above the Law"
One of Charles Koch's most vocal detractors was an intellectual forefather of the Libertarian movement.

Trickle-Down Economics Confronts an Insurmountable Challenge: Reality
-- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

Radio Host to CA Shooting Victim’s Dad: "Stupid Son of a Bitch" Should Give Your Kid a Gun

How a Millionaire, a Socialist, and Some Taco Bell Workers Brought a Living Wage to Seattle

VA Also Not Telling the Truth About Veteran Disability Claims

‘Clandestine’ Conspiracy Documents Become Court Battleground in High Frequency Lawsuit

NSA Whistleblower Snowden Seeks Brazil Asylum

Charles P. Pierce | Don't Take Your Guns to Vote

Obama: 'I Make No Apologies' For Bergdahl Release

Anti-Choice Extremism: Cultural Denial and Political Consequences

Scarborough And Todd Get Into On-Air Shouting Match Over Bergdahl's Dad

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How Republicans Blew It on Climate Change
The host of Cosmos dishes on our warming planet, why science is "trending" in our culture, and the meaning of a groundbreaking science TV experiment.

Republicans, the Taliban, and an Epic POW Head Fake

McCain Called Out on Prisoner Swap Shift

Lara Logan Returning to 60 Minutes After Absence
After a months-long absence over a controversial, discredited Benghazi report, CBS’ Lara Logan has returned to work

Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Block Same-Sex Marriage in Oregon
Anti gay-marriage group had sought to overturn ruling of federal judge, who declared Oregon's ban to be unconstitutional

Families of Drone Victims: No Hope for Justice in US Courts

Tiananmen Anniversary Reflections

German Nuclear Waste May Be Headed to South Carolina Site
Dep't. of Energy said it will study the environmental risk of importing spent nuclear fuel from Germany that contains highly enriched uranium, a move believed to be the first for the US.

Feds’ Bizarre Marijuana Spite: How Big Ag and Water Shortage are Conspiring Against Stoners