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National Security Brief: Obama Admin Looks To South Carolina For Gitmo Detainee Military Trials

President Obama on Thursday announced initial steps his administration will take in a renewed effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, including transferring some detainees and appointing a special envoy tasked with coordinating Gitmo’s closure.

Ten Right Wingers Freak Out Over Boy Scouts Policy Change

After more than three-fifths of delegates to the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council voted Thursday to lift the organization’s ban on openly gay youth — a move that preserved the ban on LGBT adult leaders and volunteers — groups ranging from GLAAD to the LDS Church embra

Ryan Hart"s Lawsuit Against Electronic Arts And Who Gets The Money From NCAA Games

Earlier this month, Travis Waldron wrote about the lawsuit against EA Sports, which creates avatars of college athletes that closely match their physical appearance and performances in games, but changes their names so they don’t have to pay up the way they normally would if they were benefiti

Governor Finally Remembers He Has One Latino On His Staff

Tom Corbett (R) remembered the one Latino in his administration on Thursday, one day after ThinkProgress highlighted an exchange in which he said “we do not have any staff members” who are Latino.

Top Senate Republicans Want To Keep Playing Into Al Qaeda"s Strategy

Back in 2004, in a video addressed to the American people, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden described his “bleed until bankruptcy” strategy.

Meet The People Who Are Subverting Wall Street Reform

Three years after Congress passed sweeping reforms of Wall Street, the industry has successfully widened a variety of cracks in the Dodd-Frank law.

NYPD Stop-And-Frisks Lead To More Marijuana Arrests Than Anything Else

In 2012, more people subject to the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisks were arrested for marijuana than for anything else, according to a new analysis by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Boehner Still Opposes Special Committee To Investigate Benghazi

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said on Wednesday that he does not think there needs to be a special select committee to investigate the Obama administration’s handing of the terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya last year. Rep.

Illinois Bans Abstinence-Only Sex Ed: "In Fantasy Land, We Teach Our Kids Abstinence"

Illinois public schools will be required to include medically accurate information about birth control in their sex ed classes under a measure that the state legislature passed this week. HB 2675, which Gov.

More And More Americans Are Feeling The Impact Of Sequestration Cuts

A new poll for ABC by Langer Research Associates finds that nearly four in ten Americans say sequestration has hurt them personally, up from just a quarter in March. About half of those impacted say the harm has been major.