Deirdre Fulton

Despite Widespread Concerns, DOJ Spreads Election Monitors Thin

2013 gutting of Voting Rights Act means fewer full-access election observers will be stationed at polling places.

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Inflatable figures direct voters at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, Oct. 24, 2016, in San Jose, Calif.

The 2013 gutting of the Voting Rights Act means the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will deploy just 500 election monitors to polling places in 28 states on Tuesday—hundreds less than in 2012, and imbued with limited powers. The DOJ made its announcement Monday amid escalated concerns about voter intimidation and discrimination. "The bedrock

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Hillary Clinton Finally Weighs In On Dakota Access Pipeline

Response comes the same day militarized police forcibly cleared hundreds of water protectors from protest site.

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland.

No longer able to sit on the sidelines and remain silent about the battle raging in North Dakota over Indigenous rights to clean water and sacred land, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton released a statement on Thursday about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) fight—and it says "literally nothing." The statement was delivered via

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Latest Pipeline Leak Underscores Dangers Of Dakota Access Pipeline

A major crude oil pipeline in Oklahoma sprung a leak late Sunday night; the company has yet to provide an estimate of volume spilled

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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2005 file photo, the marker that welcomes commuters to Cushing, Okla. is seen. Canadian company TransCanada says it will build an oil pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas after President Barack Obama blocked the larger Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. The company says the new project does not require presidential approval since it does not cross a U.S. border. The shorter pipeline is expected to cost about $2.3 billion and be completed in 2013. The Obama administration had suggested development of an Oklahoma-to-Texas line to alleviate an oil glut at a Cushing, Okla., storage hub. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Matt Strasen, File)

Underscoring once again the dangers of America's unreliable fossil fuel infrastructure, a significant U.S. oil pipeline has been shut down after a leak was reported Monday morning. Enterprise Products Partners said Monday it had shut its Seaway Crude Pipeline, a 400,000-barrel per day conduit that transports crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to

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‘I Was Doing My Job’: Climate Reporter Facing 45 Years Speaks Out

Deia Schlosberg, filmmaker arrested for documenting climate protest, says she believes felony charges are ‘unjust’

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Emmy-winning filmmaker Deia Schlosberg was arrested in North Dakota and charged with three felonies on Thursday.

The filmmaker facing a lengthy prison sentence for documenting a nonviolent civil disobedience action last week has spoken out on behalf of journalism, the First Amendment, and the global climate movement. Deia Schlosberg, an independent filmmaker and climate reporter, was arrested last week in Walhalla, North Dakota for filming the

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Wells Fargo CEO Steps Down With $134M Payout, Faces No Charges For Fraud

‘A bank CEO should not be able to oversee a massive fraud and simply walk away to enjoy his millions in retirement,’ said Sen. Elizabeth Warren

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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Financial Services Committee investigating Wells Fargo's opening of unauthorized customer accounts.

The announced retirement of Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf on Wednesday wasn't enough for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who said the top executive must face more consequences for his role in the recent fake-account scandal. According to a Wells Fargo statement released late Wednesday afternoon, Stumpf had informed the company's board he was

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Seeking To Keep Control Of Senate, NRA Betting Big On Gun-Loving Republicans

« If Republicans maintain control of the Senate this November, they’ll have to be sure to thank the gun lobby »

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Par Deirdre Fulton
A clip from an NRA ad targeting Democratic Senate candidate Deborah Ross, who is challenging incumbent Republican Richard Burr in North Carolina. (Photo: Screenshot)

With the U.S. Senate majority at stake, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is pumping record amounts of money into races across the country, according to Reuters on Friday. The news agency reports that the NRA "is on track for record spending this year on U.S. political campaigns," having already spent $23.4 million in this election cycle

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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For The NSA

Rights groups said the news proves « the failure of U.S. government reforms to curb NSA’s tendency to try and indiscriminately vacuum up the world’s data. »

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Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.

In an astounding and "unprecedented" new account of U.S. government surveillance, Reuters reported Tuesday that Yahoo secretly scanned all of its customer's incoming emails for a specific set of characters, per request of the National Security Agency (NSA) or FBI. The news agency broke the investigation after speaking with "two former employees

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