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Legal Pot Delivered To Your Front Door
SAN FRANCISCO — Amid a bare-knuckle fight with the federal government to keep his medical marijuana dispensary open, Steve DeAngelo had an idea: if federal ...
Big Step Forward For Senate Immigration Bill
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bipartisan “gang of eight” immigration bill on Tuesday in a 13 to 5 vote after a marathon ...
U.S. Seized Phone Records For Fox News AND White House
WASHINGTON –- The Justice Department seized phone records for numbers associated with Fox News and the White House as part of a leak investigation, according ...
Social Media ‘Storm Chasers’ Take Grave Risks
When Tim Baker began racing to the front lines of unfolding natural disasters 18 years ago, it was just him, his video cameras and the ...
Matt Baume: 12 States Have Marriage Equality… Can We Get to 13? (VIDEO)
Marriage equality is on a winning streak, and it may not be over yet: Illinois may soon join Rhode Island, Delaware and Minnesota in passing ...
Colorado Officials Decline To Detail How Dunlap Will Be Executed
From The Colorado Independent’s Susan Greene. While political observers speculate on the factors shaping Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s thinking on whether or not to prevent ...
Critics Of Guantanamo Force-Feeding Dismissed As ‘Political’
WASHINGTON — A military physician who oversees the nurses who force-feed Guantanamo’s hunger-striking detainees told reporters visiting the remote naval base last week that the ...
Jerry Waxman: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’
Pigging out with Koch In case you haven’t heard the news, the Chicago Tribune reported that headline the day that Truman won the election in ...
Immigration Bill Approved By Senate Panel
WASHINGTON — Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee ...
Bill Rosendahl: Coming out of the (Cannabis) Closet
It’s true. I use cannabis. First I used it to treat neuropathy in my feet and now it provides incredible relief from the severe and ...
Tom Hayes: Why has Washington Become Such a Cluster Frag? Blame It on the iPhone
When our founding fathers framed our representative form of government, they could not imagine a time when individuals would become so damn powerful. In the ...
Bad News For Immigration Amendment On LGBT Couples
WASHINGTON — Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had to make what the New York senator called an “excruciating” decision on Tuesday to ...
World News
Canadian Killed In Iraq Violence
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says a Canadian is among those killed in a spate of recent sectarian violence in Iraq. A string ...
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Military Rape Survivor Collects 113,000 Signatures Demanding Action
Navy veteran Trina McDonald, a survivor of rape during her service, is calling on Congress to amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice by moving ...
La Carmina: Steampunk in Japan: Tokyo Subculture Style (PHOTOS)
The concept of Steampunk is only beginning to gain recognition in Japan, even though there have been multiple works that incorporate the brass-Victorian aesthetic, such ...