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Wealth in the United States can buy many things: education, homes, vacations. It can even buy the best doctors and diet, but it can't buy health. Why not?
An obscure board charged with facilitating the retention of records quietly made significant changes to Wisconsin's open records law without required public notice.
A Taser gun used by firearms officers during training demonstrations at the Jackton training center in Glasgow, Scotland, where police leaders from throughout the US gathered to discuss department tactics, on November 12, 2015. (Photo: Kieran Dodds / The New York Times)
The national trend of sanctioning the increased use of police Tasers and stun guns, and the argument that using weapons other than guns may save lives or reduce injuries, ignore the underlying problems of how police use force against civilians.
In Hebron, on New Year's Day, 17 Palestinian families started their year by reclaiming the dead bodies of their children from an Israeli government that had withheld them for months.
Some of the same armed "militia" involved in the Cliven Bundy affair in Nevada have occupied federal land in Oregon formerly reserved for the Northern Paiute.





















