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Is Alaska Losing Its Snow?
Snow accumulation in and around Anchorage is about 30 inches below average for this time of year, and it’s affecting daily life in the area.

We still know little about when and why police use their weapons. That’s about to change.

Global Drone Assassination Program on verge of collapse

As Houston Islamic Center Burns, Firefighter Posts, "Let it burn...block the fire hydrant."

Rachel Corrie's Family Denied Justice From Israel's Highest Court
Decision 'amounts to judicial sanction of immunity for Israeli military forces when they commit injustices and human rights violations,' said Corrie's family.

South Carolina Prisoner Receives 37 Years in Solitary Confinement for Updating Facebook

A Black Mississippi Judge's Breathtaking Speech To 3 White Murderers

Arkansas House Votes In Favor Of LGBT Discrimination

Leading Regional LGBT Group Slapped With a "Foreign Agent" Fine in Russia

Our Purpose Is to Love

Five years after a mine explosion killed 29, few expect ustice

Angry, armed and white: Why Craig Stephen Hicks is the face of America’s violent extremism

Digital Darkness and Silence for Sex Offenders in the Information Age

Surprisingly, a Voluntary Climate Treaty Could Actually Work

Palestinians want to join investigation of Chapel Hill shootings

The emerging trend of innocent black men and boys dying after calls to 911

Debating US Foreign Policy: Where Are the Women?

"Carceral Conglomerate" Makes Millions From Incarcerated, Their Friends and Families

Four Years After the Meltdown, Investigating Fukushima’s Ecological Toll

Bernie Sanders: Keeping US From Becoming Oligarchy Is "A Struggle We Must Win"

At My Oil Refinery, My Life Is Worth the Price of a Pie
We don’t want to be exposed to potentially fatal hazards unnecessarily. That’s why we’ve organised the largest strike since 1980 to demand worker safety

Netanyahu Dreams of Riding an Elephant Into Congress

With These Hires, Congress Becomes Even More Like a Corporation

A Peace Activist in Federal Prison

Women Pick Up the Slack as Fishing Declines on India’s Southern Coasts

As Gay Marriage Bans Fall, LGBT Rights Come Under Fire From State Legislatures

Boehner Can't Rule Out Homeland Security Department Shutdown

HSBC Files: Swiss Bank Hid Money for Suspected Criminals

Proposed Bill Has Everyone Confused About Whether You Can Arrest People for Wearing Yoga Pants

GM Confirms Plan to Build Long-Range Electric Car in Michigan

The Bush Family: Where Style Trumps Substance
-- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Urban Violence Under the Microscope: The Sociology of Dead Kids
-- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout

GOP Delays Vote on Attorney General Nominee

Charles P. Pierce | Conservatives Celebrate Death of ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller

Tens of Thousands of San Francisco Commuters Possibly Exposed to Measles

What Is Citigroup Hiding From Its Shareholders Now?

NSA Spy Program So Secret Judge Can't Explain Why It Can't Be Challenged

How the Little Guys Beat the Monopolists on Net Neutrality

Obama's ISIS War-Authorization Request "Alarmingly Broad, Excessively Expansive"

Hobby Lobby 2: Inside Republicans' Plan to Kill America's Most Effective Anti-Teen-Pregnancy Program
An innovative program has reduced the abortion rate and saved a state millions. Here's why it's doomed.

Climate Change, ISIS, and the Idiocy of Mike Huckabee

Bank Whistleblower: I Tipped Off Taxmen in 2008
"Offshore banking is out of control."

Rush of Obamacare Enrollees Expected Before Sunday Deadline

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf issued a moratorium on death-penalty executions

The country’s last black-owned banks are in a fight for their survival

Obama pitches cybersecurity agenda to Silicon Valley
President Obama took to Stanford University on Friday to sell the tech community on his plan to expand the cybersecurity partnership between the government and private sector.

Protests around the South target fossil fuels in run-up to Global Divestment Day

FBI director acknowledges ‘hard truths’ about racial bias in policing

More than 170 whales stranded on New Zealand beach

Mexican Political Family Has Close Ties to Ruling Party, and Homes in the U.S.

With Riyadh, How Much Longer Can Washington Look The Other Way?

NASA Scientists: Future Megadroughts Could Last 30+ Years ‘Thanks to Human-Induced Climate Change’

Rebels fighting for more territory ahead of Ukraine ceasefire: Kiev military

Five Surprises About American Internment During World War II

Lawsuit: NY Cop Broke Leg Of Boy, 10, For Filming Him

Muslim American caught up in post-9/11 sweep gets an apology

Senate report confirms CIA had ‘black site’ at Guantánamo, hid it from Congress

Deep in the Amazon, a Tiny Tribe Is Beating Big Oil

Five Reasons No Progressive Should Support Hillary Clinton
If we allow ourselves to fall in line behind the Democratic establishment, progressives will remain beholden to a political system slanted to the right.

Photographers Take to Instagram to Show the Toll of Climate Change

Political Meltdown In Macedonia Shows Destabilizing Effect of Massive Government Surveillance

President Obama, Stop Selling Us Out: End Oil, Gas and Coal Extraction on Public Lands
-- John Horning of EcoWatch on BuzzFlash at Truthout

Charles P. Pierce | Analyzing the Rise of the Lone Wolf

Obama Still Believes in Unlimited War

Northeast Forecast to Suffer Lowest Temperatures in 20 Years
...plus more snow.

Palestine Remembers ISIS Captive Kayla Mueller Killed in Raqqa

Rush Limbaugh: Scott Walker Should Say He Dropped Out of College to Avoid Being "Accused of Rape"
Shock jock alleges that men can't attend college anymore without facing rape charges

Surviving the Nazis, Only to Be Jailed by America

US Faces Worst Drought in 1,000 Years, Predict Scientists

As Oscars Near, "American Sniper" Draws Protest

Paris Votes to Sue Fox News for Erroneous "No-Go Zone" Coverage

NASA Study Finds Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk of US Megadroughts

Why Don’t Americans Know What Really Happened in Vietnam?

The Grand Canyon: Natural Wonder or the Next Great American Mall?

Police in Washington State Fatally Shoot Man Running Away, Witnesses Say

Scott Walker Would Rather Talk About Cheese Than Foreign Policy or Evolution

Keystone XL, Cold War 2.0 and the GOP Vision for 2016

On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood

Republicans Dropped That Whole Over-the-Counter Birth Control Thing Really Quickly

Toxic Orange Cloud Spreads After Chemical Blast Near Barcelona

The Most Common Type of American Terrorist Is a White Man With a Weapon and a Grudge

FBI Probes Rash of Fraudulent State Tax Returns Filed Through TurboTax

Jeb Bush’s Web Chief Quits After Report on Embarrassing Post About Martin Luther King Jr.

No Rest for the Weary: New England Expecting More Snow