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More than 10,000 websites are blocking Congress from accessing them in protest
More than 10,000 websites are blocking Congress from accessing them as a protest of the Patriot Act, according to The Hill.Participants have embedded a small snippet of code into their websites that...
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Ukraine owes billions of dollars and everyone wants a piece of it
Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine's finance minister said on Friday that Kiev and its private creditors were about to launch direct debt restructuring negotiations that could save the war-torn country from a...
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Key Patriot Act provisions will expire at midnight unless senators can come...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Key Patriot Act anti-terror provisions, including bulk collection of Americans' phone records, expire at midnight unless senators come up with an 11th hour deal in an extraordinary...
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Republicans are torching Rand Paul for letting the Patriot Act expire
Republicans, furious at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), are accusing him of jeopardizing national security to further his presidential campaign.Paul used Senate procedure to successfully — and temporarily...
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Rand Paul blames 'heat of battle' for claiming his critics secretly hope for...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) quickly backed off a comment he made on Sunday that some of his critics "secretly want there to be an attack" against the US. "I think sometimes in the heat of battle,...
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I grew up in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, and the government scares me...
I was 12 on September 11, 2001.That day was the first of my political memory, for all intents and purposes. There are snippets here and there of Clinton-era nights of watching CNN, but I was too young...
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Mitch McConnell is confusing his friends and allies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, generally seen as a master congressional deal-maker, walked into a legislative dead end on domestic surveillance that left some of his friends...
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Obama just made a big move to restore Americans' trust in the government
Yesterday the Senate passed and President Obama signed into law the USA Freedom Act, a piece of legislation meant to curb the government’s ability to conduct widespread surveillance.Now that the dust...
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The NSA wants to keep its massive spying program going a little longer
Looks like the National Security Agency isn't ready to wrap up its controversial telephone spying program just yet. The National Journal reports the Obama administration plans to request temporary...
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Timothy Snyder is the author of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" and the Levin professor of history at Yale University. Snyder explains how governments use tragedies to...
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Congress has just days to extend, reform, or repeal the controversial law...
A controversial surveillance law is set to expire at the end of the month.But Congress is still bitterly divided over whether to reauthorize it, reform it, or completely repeal it.FISA Section 702,...
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Early data on Hasan Minhaj's 'Patriot Act' suggests it could succeed where...
"Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj" is Netflix's latest foray into talk-show territory, and a social-media analysis from Crimson Hexagon suggests it has a shot at success.Netflix's other talk shows, such...
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3 great TV shows to watch on Netflix this week
Every week, INSIDER puts together a list of great shows on Netflix you should watch.This week, we recommend the Netflix original comedy "One Day at a Time," weekly news show "Patriot Act," and the...
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A top GOP senator won’t vote for Trump attorney general nominee William Barr...
GOP Sen. Rand Paul said he will not vote to confirm President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee William Barr. Paul cited Barr's stance on government surveillance in justifying his position. Barr...
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The El Paso shooting has reignited a debate over whether the federal...
Congress and the FBI are under more pressure than ever to enact and enforce a federal domestic-terrorism statute in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,...
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7 ways that 9/11 created a dystopian security landscape that Americans are...
The American public was angry and frightened after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that killed 3,000 people, a seismic event which fueled calls for immediate government action to hunt down the...
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Trump is not a fan of civil liberties, and Americans are more willing to give...
Throughout US history in times of crisis, infringements on civil liberties by the government are not just to be expected — they're also distressingly popular with the public. In the almost two decades...
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A governor ordered the state police and National Guard to hunt for New...
On Saturday, military police of the National Guard — armed, camouflaged, and clad in flak-jackets — went door to door in Rhode Island where cars with New York license plates, or no plates at all, were...
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The House just ditched a bill that would renew and expand the FBI's...
The House of Representatives just canceled a vote on a controversial bill that would have renewed the Patriot Act and expanded the FBI's surveillance powers after President Donald Trump said he'd veto...
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Saudi Arabia allowed sexually explicit Netflix shows like 'Sex Education' in...
Summary List PlacementSaudi Arabia agreed to host explicit Netflix shows in exchange for the removal of a satirical episode that criticized the kingdom, the streaming giant's CEO said.On January 1,...
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