Jailed Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Seeks Compassionate Release over Worsening Cancer; Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government’s “Big Brother” Seizure of AP Phone Records; Dr. Paul Farmer on Rwanda’s Health Leap, Haiti’s Struggles & How Communities Can Repair the World.
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May 14, 2013
Obama Admin Secretly Obtains Trove of Associated Press Phone Records in “Unprecedented Intrusion”
Search for Bodies at Collapsed Garment Building in Bangladesh Ends; Death Toll at 1,127
Worker Describes 17 Days Trapped in Garment Building’s Rubble
European Firms Commit to Plan for Improving Bangladesh Factory Safety
Report: IRS Commissioner Knew About Targeting of Right-Wing Groups in May 2012
Supreme Court Sides Unanimously With Monsanto in Seed Patent Case
Minnesota Governor to Sign Bill Allowing Same-Sex Marriage
Document Reveals New Protocol for Force-Feeding Guantánamo Hunger Strikers
Obama, Cameron Vow to Increase Pressure on Syrian Gov’t
Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell Found Guilty of First-Degree Murder
Court Delays Unrestricted Sale of Emergency Contraception
Former Guatemalan Dictator Ríos Montt Hospitalized After Fainting
Mexican Authorities Arrest 2 for Beating Death of Malcolm Shabazz