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Program Used to Stop Voter Fraud Is Allegedly Flawed
Republican election officials in some states have been cracking down on what they believe is massive voter-fraud activities under way in some districts. The officials are championing the Interstate Crosscheck program—an initiative that allows states to crosscheck their voter-registration files to see which individuals are registered to vote in more than one state and which individuals have, in fact, voted…
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Young Midterm-Election Voters Will Likely Vote for Republicans
Not so fast, Democrats. You don’t have young voters in the bag. A new Harvard University poll reveals that slightly more than half of young Americans (ages 18-29) who say they’ll definitely be voting in the upcoming midterm elections are planning to vote red. That’s right—for the Republicans. “The new survey, released Wednesday, found a preference for Republican…
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Nigerian Soldiers Arrested for Working as Spies for Boko Haram
It’s almost unfathomable, but some soldiers in Nigeria’s military might be working as moles for Boko Haram, giving the terrorist group vital information about the military’s strategies and tactics. That’s what the Nigerian military is claiming, and it has arrested those soldiers who it suspects are working as double agents for Boko Haram, AllAfrica.com is…
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3 NYC Corrections Officers Fired After Reports of Corruption at Rikers
Heads are rolling in the upper ranks of New York City’s Department of Correction because of the way it has handled allegations of violence and corruption at the city’s Rikers Island prison. The New York Times is reporting that three executives, including the department chief, William Clemons, got pink slips earlier this week. “The department has been…
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6 Reasons Down-Ballot Races Are Just as Important as the Top of the Ticket
Oh, OK. You’re not too concerned about the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 4. You don’t mind sitting this cycle out because you’ve convinced yourself that presidential elections are what matters the most. Think again. In addition to a slate of U.S. Senate races that could determine which party controls Congress for the next two…
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Boko Haram’s Recent Abductions Suggest That Negotiations Have Failed
Boko Haram keeps abducting more and more civilians, leading people to believe that the settlement reached between the insurgent group and the Nigerian government to return the more than 200 schoolgirls the group abducted in April will not happen, Al-Jazeera reports. The cease-fire was reached on Oct. 17, but then just one day later, there…
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Nurse Threatens to Sue Over ‘Inhumane’ Ebola Quarantine
The nurse who was confined in a New Jersey hospital because of concerns that she might have contracted Ebola while treating patients in West Africa said that her quarantine was inhumane, and she’s considering filing a lawsuit against the state, Al-Jazeera reports. Kaci Hickox, a nurse from Maine who landed in Newark, N.J., after her…
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Calif. Prisons Will No Longer Punish All Inmates of the Same Race for the Actions of 1
Prison reform is alive and well, and it can start from the inside out. According to an Al-Jazeera report, an inmate filed a civil rights lawsuit against California’s prison system and got it to reverse a policy that caused every inmate of a particular race to lose privileges whenever an inmate of that race got…
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Activists Want the FBI to Track Police Misconduct on Database
Activists who have been protesting over incidents in which law-enforcement officers killed unarmed black men are calling on the FBI to do a better job tracking incidents of police brutality by having those numbers logged into a national database and broken down by race, Al-Jazeera reports. Activists and researchers believe the current system is not comprehensive…
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Cuba and the US Hug It Out Over Responses to Ebola
Who could have known that it would take an Ebola outbreak in West Africa for Cuba and the U.S. to pat each other on the back about something? Here’s how it happened: First, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry singled out Cuba on Friday as one of the nations that are “stepping up in impressive ways…
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