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Pentagon’s Yemen Raid Video Turned Out To Be 10 Yrs Old

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Defense Department spokesman, stuck by the Pentagon’s main argument: Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula remains dangerous and wants to recruit and train people to attack the West. «Even though the video is old, it shows their intent,» he told reporters.

4 февраля, 2017
National Public Radio
4 февраля, 2017
От National Public Radio

A terrorist video released on Friday by the Pentagon to show what it called intelligence gleaned by the recent raid in Yemen actually was made about 10 years ago, it acknowledged. Defense officials canceled a briefing they had called to discuss the value of the information recovered from Yemen and took the video off the website of the U.S.

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More Than 1 Million ‘Check In’ On Facebook To Support The Standing Rock Sioux

Most of the «visitors» are not actually at the protest camp in North Dakota, where the tribe and its supporters are gathering to oppose the pipeline. The planned route crosses the Missouri River just upstream of the reservation, and the tribe says it could contaminate drinking water and harm sacred lands.

2 ноября, 2016
National Public Radio
2 ноября, 2016
От National Public Radio
Over 200 Indigenous Nations are facing a brutal police crackdown in Canon Ball, ND where they've gathered to take a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

More than 1 million people have "checked in" on Facebook to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation page, in a show of support for the tribe that has been rallying against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Most of the "visitors" are not actually at the protest camp in North Dakota, where the tribe and its supporters are gathering to

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Conservative Christians Grapple With Whether ‘Religious Freedom’ Includes Muslims

People walk pass an unidentified Christian protester in Salt Lake City. (AP/Rick Bowmer) Religious liberty is a rallying cry for many evangelical voters, and it has been popping up repeatedly throughout this presidential campaign. But in the current political climate, some conservative Christians are struggling with how to apply religious freedom to other faiths — […]

30 июня, 2016
National Public Radio
30 июня, 2016
От National Public Radio
Blackwater Guards Face Trial In Iraq Shootings

Religious liberty is a rallying cry for many evangelical voters, and it has been popping up repeatedly throughout this presidential campaign. But in the current political climate, some conservative Christians are struggling with how to apply religious freedom to other faiths — like Islam. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz made religious freedom a hallmark of

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U.S. Ranks 41st In Press Freedom Index Thanks To ‘War On Whistleblowers’

Countries ahead of the U.S. in the rankings include Canada (18), Ghana (26), Chile (31) and the U.K. (38). The U.S. is ranked higher than France (45) and Italy (77).

21 апреля, 2016
National Public Radio
21 апреля, 2016
От National Public Radio
Daniel Ellsberg

The U.S. is ranked 41 out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index, which measures the "level of freedom of information in 180 countries." According to the organization, the U.S. moved from 49 in 2015 to 41 this year, though it warned that the "relative improvement by comparison hides overall negative

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Utah Nearly Abolishes Chronic Homelessness

By implementing a model known as Housing First, Utah has reduced the number of the chronically homeless from nearly 2,000 people in 2005, to fewer than 200 now.

11 декабря, 2015
National Public Radio
11 декабря, 2015
От National Public Radio
A Homeless man sleeps on the steps of St. Bartholomew's Church

A decade ago, Utah set itself an ambitious goal: end chronic homelessness. As of 2015, the state can just about declare victory: The population of chronically homeless people has dropped by 91 percent. The state's success story has generated headlines around the country, and even The Daily Show With Jon Stewart looked to Utah to understand

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Despite Optimistic Claims, Brazil’s Amazon Rain Forest Is Disappearing Fast

Brazil is losing about 2,000 square miles of jungle each year.

6 ноября, 2015
National Public Radio
6 ноября, 2015
От National Public Radio
Strain forest: This file photo shows a deforested area near Novo Progresso in the northern Brazilian state of Para | AP

Brazil isn't lying to the world about how bad deforestation is in the Amazon. But it is, according to the very people employed by the government to protect the rainforest, "misleading" the international community. According to the government figures, the rate of deforestation is down dramatically over the past decade. And there's a general

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Saudi Arabia Farming Arizona Land After Depleting Domestic Water Sources

The remarkable thing about Saudi Arabia’s story is that it’d done something similar in the desert until the water ran out. The aquifers essentially went dry. Ancient springs that were mentioned in the Bible began drying up, and the Saudi Arabian government told its dairy companies to start importing their hay and their wheat from other parts of the world.

3 ноября, 2015
National Public Radio
3 ноября, 2015
От National Public Radio

Outside of Phoenix, in the scorching Arizona desert, sits a farm that Saudi Arabia's largest dairy uses to make hay for cows back home. That dairy company, named Almarai, bought the farm last year and has planted thousands of acres of groundwater-guzzling alfalfa to make that hay. Saudi Arabia can't grow its own hay anymore because those crops

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