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The typhoon that hit the Philippines over the weekend continues to bedevil aid workers. The devastation wrought has caused bottlenecks in the delivery of much-needed aid.

KOB 4, a New Mexico news outlet, reports thatthe American Civil Liberties Union is representing a New Mexico resident who says that law enforcement agents subjected her to invasive searches in a fruitless quest for drugs.

How can legal safeguards be maintained when the money these institutions spend taints the political process from beginning to end? How can bank executives learn “respect for law, regulation and the public trust” when they are subject to the flattery of journalists, rather than the scrutiny of journalists?

That's the marketing slogan of the latest iOS app Hula, which is making waves in the digital dating world by allowing users to share their STD results in a “fun, millennial-friendly way—or as fun as you can possibly get when you’re talking about chlamydia.”

Right. Nothing racist or bigoted about that. It's just that they want to throw up at the sight of interracial marriage and biracial kids, especially when one of the negroes in question is a deviant. And can you blame them?

The Republican House is gearing up for their latest version of Obamacare repeal, allowing people to keep their crappy health insurance that doesn't provide actual health coverage.

The Republican Party is not only the party of plutocrats and oligarchs; it’s also the party of the South. The party’s leaders are predominantly southern.

Dissent is once again a criminal act in America. People who object to right-wing lunacy used to be called “communists” and treated as enemies of the state. Now “anarchist” is the label of choice used to harass those who disagree.

All of this leads to an obvious conclusion: If America was serious about fixing the troubled parts of its education system, then we would be having a fundamentally different conversation.

The war on drugs is out of control. How do we know this? Look no further than the disturbing story that just broke about a New Mexican resident whose routine traffic stop turned in a 14-hour living nightmare that led to him being medically violated, all in the name of the drug war.

Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton all acknowledge illicit marijuana use in their younger years. Of the three, who do you suppose was most at risk for arrest and all of the associated negative consequences, including truncating his political aspirations?

Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson pled guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife.

Tampons are used by up to 85 percent of menstruating women and may contain dioxins or pesticide residues linked to cancer, hormone disruptors, allergens and irritants from fragrance.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) made the appeal today to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. On October 31, the court decided to suspend the ruling made by Judge Shira Scheindlin in August that concluded that the New York police were using stop and frisk tactics in unconstitutional ways that constituted racial profiling.

The $2.2 billion figure seems large at first glance. However, compared to the money that the company made off of the drug, it’s just another cost of doing business in an out-of-control pharmaceutical industry hell-bent on bringing in massive profits no matter the consequences for the patients who take the drugs.

After adjusting for all explanatory variables in the model, symbolic racism was significantly related to having a gun in the home.