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Wow, that was fast. UN Women cancels partnership with Uber
Remember how confused we all were last week when UN Women, the United Nations' entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, announced a partnership with Uber? You know, the company whose drivers have been accused of...
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Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singapore, Dies at 91
As prime minister for 31 years, Mr. Lee transformed the tiny island outpost into a modern, affluent city-state admired for its efficiency and low level of corruption.
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“Not true and they knew it”: What Rahm Emanuel’s Wall Street craze cost Chicago
Chicago's struggling public school system had a golden chance to reap billions. Here's where it went wrong. By David Dayen.
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Burma's bizarre capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse suburbia
The purpose-built city of Naypyidaw – unveiled a decade ago this year – boasts 20-lane highways, golf courses, fast Wi-Fi and reliable electricity. The only thing it doesn’t seem to have is people, report Matt Kennard and Claire Provost.
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A Family Business of Perpetual War
Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan have a great mom-and-pop business going. From the State Department, she generates wars and – from op-ed pages – he demands Congress buy more weapons. There’s a pay-off, too, as grateful military contractors kick in money to think tanks where other Kagans work, writes Robert Parry.
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TEPCO believes nearly all nuclear fuel melted in Fukushima reactor
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said almost all the nuclear fuel in the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima plant likely melted in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
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Learning My Lesson
Marina Warner on the disfiguring of higher education.
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Appalachia: The Fifty Years War
What has changed since the federal government went to war in the hollows
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9 Billionaires Are About to Remake New York’s Public Schools—Here’s Their Story
A Nation investigation reveals how a group of hedge funders are about to get exactly what they paid for.... By George Joseph
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Super PAC Men: How Political Consultants Took a Texas Oilman on a Wild Ride
The head of a Texas oil dynasty joined the parade of wealthy political donors, aiming to flip the Senate to Republicans. By the time consultants were done with him, the war chest was drained and fraud allegations were flying.
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Who's funding palm oil?
Palm oil may be the single most important crop that you never heard of. A vegetable fat that resembles reddish butter at room temperature, palm oil is derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree. Both nutritious and highly versatile, palm oil is now an important component of products ranging from biofuels and food to soaps and cosmetics. Estimates indicate that as much as 50 percent of the products used by the average Western consumer every day contain palm oil or its derivatives...
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House Republican budget: There’s a mysterious $1.1 trillion in spending cuts in the House GOP’s budget
An elusive being has haunted Washington for decades now. Part gimmick and part punctuation mark, this mysterious creature has consistently baffled researchers and budget wonks who have sought to penetrate the fields of distortion it seems to create around the federal budget...
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Culture of brutality reigned at state prison in Florida Panhandle
Long before six corrections officers were charged with beating and stomping an inmate at a Panhandle prison, a culture of brutality flourished, inmates and guards say.
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Nation's largest ocean desalination plant goes up near San Diego; Future of the California coast?
With technology improving and the drought worsening, momentum is gathering for more desalination projects along the California coast. But high costs and environmental impacts loom large.
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Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the oceans — with potentially dire consequences
According to a new study just out in Nature Climate Change by Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a group of co-authors, we’re now seeing a slowdown of the great ocean circulation that, among other planetary roles, helps to partly drive the Gulf Stream off the U.S. east coast. The consequences could be ...
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After years in Guantanamo, ex-detainees find little solace in Uruguay
Six housemates say their years in prison left them with ailments — and anger — that make it hard to adapt.
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Philadelphia Police Department needs reforms, Justice Department finds
A federal review of the Philadelphia Police Department's use-of-force policy found shortfalls in the way the agency investigates fatal police shootings as well as inadequate training that has led to...
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Pentagon Panel Proposes Sweeping Changes that Could Impact Guantanamo Force-Feeding
A committee that advises the Secretary of Defense has recommended that military healthcare workers be allowed to bow out of medical procedures that violate their profession's code of ethics.
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Documents Reveal Canada’s Secret Hacking Tactics
Canada's spy agency has developed an arsenal of cyberweapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversaries’ infrastructure, Snowden files reveal.
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His chemical romance: Tom Udall teams up with the chemical industry, with explosive results
Enviros thought this senator was on their side. Now they accuse him of shilling for the chemical industry.
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