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Unidentified gunmen opened fire at an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens. Reuters reports Some Kenyan television stations are reporting that hostages have been taken, but these reports are not verified, according to Reuters. Kenya Red Cross reports that local hospitals are overwhelmed at the numbers…

Protesters scaled the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Monday and dropped banners calling for greater transparency and an end to “corporatocracy” over the ongoing and secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement currently in the works between the United States and several Pacific nations. Those negotiations, which have been brokered entirely behind closed doors, are…

The explosion of hydraulic fracturing in the last several years, according to a new report, is creating a previously ‘unimaginable’ situation in which hundreds of billions of gallons of the nation’s fresh water supply are being annually transformed into unusable—sometimes radioactive—cancer-causing wastewater. According to the report, , produced by Environment America, the scale and severity…

Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s Electoral College victory on Nov. 8 will likely go down as one of the largest political surprises in…

A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is granted a presidential permit from U.S. President Barack Obama. The report, titled Billionaires’ Carbon Bomb, produced by the think tank International Forum on Globalization (IFG), finds that…

President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE is expanding his search for secretary of State, according to former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Click Here:…

If you want access to the overseas communication data held by one of the nation’s largest telecommunication firms, you can get it… for a price. Click Here: New Zealand rugby store As the New York Times reports Thursday, the CIA has been paying AT&T approximately $10 million a year for continued access to its overseas…

That children in the U.S., from newborns to 8-year-olds, are spending less time in front of traditional television and computer screens than they were two years ago is the good news found in a new report released Monday. The bad news? Most of those children are now spending increasingly more time in front of newer—and…

New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman (D) is introducing legislation that would require presidential candidates to release five years of tax returns in order for their name to appear on the state’s ballot, according to a report in BuzzFeed News.  If the T.R.U.M.P. (Tax Returns Uniformly Made Public) Act were signed into law, New York’s…

Student leader, activist and communist Camila Vallejo, who became the face of a populist uprising calling for a free and quality education for all, was elected to a seat in Chile’s Congress on Sunday. Ahead of the election results, the 25-year-old told the UK’s Observer that the movement that began in 2011 was key in…