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Honduran soldiers stand next to a plane in Brus Laguna , Honduras. A joint Honduran-U.S DEA drug raid targeted civilians in the remote jungle area, killing four riverboat passengers and injuring four others. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)

Five Years Later, US Admits It Lied About DEA Role In Deadly Honduran Shooting

Archives for May 2017

Trial Of Cop Who Killed Philando Castile Kicks Off

Officer Jeronimo Yanez is charged with one count of second-degree manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm, he’s pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Dionne Cordell-Whitney
By Dionne Cordell-Whitney
Police form a line in response to protesters who blocked a highway while rallying in response to the killing of Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by a suburban St. Paul police officer on July 6. (AP/Joe Danborn)

The much-anticipated manslaughter trial of the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a routine traffic stop last summer is set to begin Tuesday with jury selection. The immediate aftermath of the July 2016 shooting was live-streamed on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who was a passenger in the car

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California Votes To Ban Drug Manufacturers From Giving ‘Gifts’ To Doctors

In 2014, California doctors received $1.4 billion in gifts from drug manufacturers, more than any other state in the country.

Amelia Kinney
By Amelia Kinney

The California Senate has voted to ban drug manufacturers from incentivizing doctors with gifts. This was accompanied by evidence that over $1.4 billion was spent last year on gifts to Californian doctors, including expensive meals and airline tickets. “While we have witnessed the cost of drugs rise over the past decade, industry profits have also

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Witnesses: US Military Killed Fleeing Child In Latest Botched Yemen Raid

Human rights group, Reprieve say the raid went wrong from the start when US Navy Seals opened fire on a partially blind 70-year-old man.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Yemen US drone war

The Pentagon said last week that there were "no credible indications of civilian casualties" from the latest U.S. Navy SEALs raid on a village in Yemen. Yet new reporting by The Intercept, citing eyewitness accounts, offers more evidence to contradict the military's claim. Residents of the village in Mareb province said that there were in

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Leak: Despite Brexit, UK Actively Lobbying To Weaken EU Climate Goals

Documents obtained by Energydesk reveal UK government attempts to significantly weaken draft EU climate and energy rules, even as Brexit is underway.

Zachary Davies Boren
By Zachary Davies Boren
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks with Donald Tusk, President of the EU Council on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street in London. (AP/Frank Augstein)

On the very day Theresa May triggered Article 50, her government quietly issued another bold statement to Brussels. Documents obtained by Energydesk reveal UK government attempts to significantly weaken draft EU climate and energy rules, even as Brexit is underway. Key renewable energy and energy efficiency targets proposed by the European

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Trump Is Planning To Reverse Obama’s Policies On Cuba

During last year’s campaign, Trump repeatedly threatened to terminate all of Obama’s deals on Cuba.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Javier Yanez stands on his balcony where he hung a U.S. and Cuban flag in Old Havana Cuba, Friday, Dec. 19, 2014

New reports out of the Daily Caller suggest that President Trump is planning to soon make an announcement that he is reversing all of President Obama’s moves to reopen US-Cuba relations, which saw a reestablishment of diplomatic ties, a slight loosening of business restrictions, and even talked about permission to allow Americans to visit the

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S. Korea’s President Orders Probe Over Increasingly Unpopular US Missile Launchers

Many of South Korean President’s supporters don’t want the missile system, which Donald Trump suggested Seoul should pay for.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
South Korean protesters stage a rally to oppose the plan to deploy the advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, April 29, 2017 (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

Calling it a "very shocking" incident, South Korea's new president on Tuesday demanded an investigation into why his office wasn't told by defense officials about the arrival of several additional launchers for a contentious U.S. missile defense system meant to cope with North Korea's nuclear threat. Before taking office on May 10, Moon Jae-in

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