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May 24, 2013 - President Obama, in yesterday's major defence policy speech, failed to provide any meaningful assistance to the hunger-striking detainees being held without charge at Guantanamo Bay. The speech comes amid revelations that prisoners are b...

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 24, 2013 - Today, leaders of the Committee for the American Clean Energy Agenda praised Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and 22 of her House colleagues for publicly urging U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to release a long-overd...

May 23, 2013 - As President Obama gives a speech on national security — including defending U.S. use of drones to combat terrorism — Leila Sadat, JD, international law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, argues that s...

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 - Given the implications for the overall health, development, and academic success of children, schools should play a primary role in ensuring that all students have opportunities to engage in at least 60 minutes per day of vig...

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 - Youth plaintiffs vow to appeal a string of decisions in their precedent-setting federal litigation over climate change. The case places the youth of America against the federal government and the fossil fuel industry over the...

WASHINGTON, DC, May 21, 2013 — The New America Foundation's National Security Studies Program announced today its newly upgraded database of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan. The site includes an interactive map that plots the approximate locations of a...

May 23, 2013 - Hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay detainees have made direct pleas to President Obama ahead of today's speech in which he is expected to outline his plans for the US prison. Among them is Shaker Aamer, a British resident, who calls on the P...

NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint and motion for preliminary injunction asking a federal district court in Baltimore to order the military judge in the court-martial of Bradley Manning to grant...

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 22, 2013 - Today a coalition led by Americans Against Fracking, 350.org, Democracy for America and Food & Water Watch, among others marched at the Spring Policy Conference of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) calling for a...

NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 - Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Congress confirming that the government has killed four Americans since 2010 in strikes overseas, and claiming that the government's actions were justified. "This letter is evidenc...