Lauren McCauley

Who Bought This Influential Newspaper? Its Own Journalists Don’t Even Know

Secrecy behind Las Vegas Review-Journal sale even more troubling because of the role Nevada holds in the upcoming 2016 presidential election.

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作者 Lauren McCauley
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A scandal with potentially national implications has erupted at a Las Vegas newspaper. Someone bought the publication, said to be Nevada's largest and most influential news source, and nobody will say who. In fact, according to reports, the buyer's anonymity was a stipulation of the $140 million cash sale. That secrecy is being challenged by the

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Chicago On The Brink After Release Of New Police Killing Video

Attorney for family of Ronald Johnson decried decision not try officer, calls internal investigation a “whitewash,”

Lauren McCauley
作者 Lauren McCauley

Outraged citizens of Chicago say they are taking to the streets Monday night after the Cook County State's Attorney on Monday announced there will be no charges filed against the police officer who fatally shot Ronald Johnson III, a black man, last year—a decision that was prompted by what Johnson's family attorney described as "a whitewash, a

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Former Drone Pilots To Obama: Civilian Killings Driving ‘Terrorism, Instability’

Air Force whistleblowers say US drone program “is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world.”

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Yemenis walk past graffiti showing a US drone. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

Four former U.S. Air Force drone operators issued a public letter on Wednesday warning that the United States' ongoing targeted killing program "is one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world." The letter (pdf), addressed to U.S. President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, and CIA

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Falling Short Of Boycott, EU Moves To Label Products Made In Illegal Israeli Settlements

American and Israeli peace activists protest against th […]

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作者 Lauren McCauley
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Though falling substantially short of the boycott campaigners have been calling for, the European Union on Wednesday adopted new measures (pdf) to label products made in Israeli settlements. "Since the Golan Heights and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are not part of the Israeli territory according to international law, the indication

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National Outrage As Video Of Brutal Police Assault On Black Student Go Viral

The attack speaks to ongoing issues such as school-to-prison pipeline and police violence on minority communities.

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Classmates said they were "scared for their lives" as they watched Officer Ben Fields assault an unnamed female student at Spring Valley High in Colombia, South Carolina. (Screenshot via Reginald Seabrooks/Youtube)

A brutal attack by a male officer on a black, female high school student in Columbia, South Carolina on Monday has spurred widespread outrage after a number of cell phone videos of the incident went viral. In the videos, Spring Valley High School resource officer Ben Fields, who is white, is shown briefly reproaching the student, who refuses to

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Amid New Reports Of Teen Shootings, Thousands Call For Peace In Palestine

Solidarity actions, planned in over sixty locations, come as three more Palestinian teens shot as a result of new ‘live fire’ rules.

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Israeli police stand near the body of a Palestinian who, according to the police, stabbed two police officers, then other police forces opened fire and killed him, but also wounded one of their own, at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. Palestinians carried out two stabbing attacks in Jerusalem on Saturday before being shot dead by police, while another two Palestinians were killed during a violent demonstration near the Gaza border fence. The violence, including the first apparent revenge attack by an Israeli Friday and increasing protests by Israel's own Arab minority, has raised fears of the unrest spiraling further out of control. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

While tensions between the Israeli army and youth protesters neared an apparent breaking point, thousands of protesters rallied outside the Israeli embassy in London on Saturday to declare solidarity with Palestinians amid this "escalating attack" on their rights and lives. The London demonstration, which is one of over 60 actions scheduled this

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Freed Canadian Journalist Slams Stephen Harper For ‘Abandoning’ Him In Egyptian Prison

Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy says he’ll continue to advocate for press freedoms and the rights of other detained journalists.

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作者 Lauren McCauley

Freed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of looking the other way during the nearly two years he was held captive by the Egyptian government. "While you here citizens in Canada and around the world clearly understood the urgency of the situation we faced in prison in Egypt, the Harper government

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