Study: States That Refused Medicaid Expansion Will Lose Billions
December 6th, 2013When the Supreme Court ruled in the summer of 2012 that individual states did not have to participate in a federal expansion of Medicaid, many Republican governors rejoiced. “We don’t need the federal government telling us what to do when it comes to meeting the needs of the citizens of our states,” wrote Florida governor
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Obama: Mandela Bent History Towards Justice
December 6th, 2013Washington (United States) (AFP) – America’s first black president Barack Obama mourned Nelson Mandela as a “profoundly good” man who “took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice.” Obama — who met the former South African president briefly only once in 2005, but was inspired to enter politics
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NSA ‘Tracks Mobile Phone Locations Worldwide’
December 5th, 2013Washington (AFP) – The National Security Agency is collecting billions of records on the location of mobile phones around the world, The Washington Post reported, citing documents from U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. The information is added to a gigantic database that shows the locations of “at least hundreds of millions of cell phones” worldwide,
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U.S. Teacher Shot Dead In Libya’s Benghazi
December 5th, 2013Benghazi (Libya) (AFP) – An American teacher was shot dead in Benghazi on Thursday, 15 months after a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya’s second city, medical and security officials said. The dead man was a U.S. citizen who taught at the city’s international school, security services spokesman Ibrahim al-Sharaa said. He was
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U.S. Releases 911 Calls In Newtown School Shooting
December 4th, 2013New York (AFP) – U.S. authorities on Wednesday released audio recordings of emergency calls made to police from the elementary school in Newtown where a lone gunman shot dead 20 children and six adults last year. Recordings of a series of 911 calls made from within and nearby the school were released nearly a year
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