Civic Alert

For the first time since 1983, the House of Representatives held a secret session to vote on the revision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill. The result was a 213-197 vote backing of the Democratic changes, which would prohibit immunity for telecommunications companies involved in warrantless wiretapping and allow them to be sued.
However, the [...]

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Not much time is left for the world’s glaciers, according to the U.N. Environment Program. After measuring glaciers, scientists found they lost mass at record rates in 2006 (4.9 feet on average), and some may disappear completely within 10 years.
“The latest figures are part of what appears to be an accelerating trend with no [...]

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