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By | 05/21/2013 | News

Top Stories on IVN Follow the Money Act Draws Criticism by Alex Gauthier Announced last month by Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the Follow the Money Act was received.

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By | 04/01/2013 | IVN, Movements, News, Organizations

Imagine if quality journalists from all over the country joined together to create a decentralized non-profit news source that rises above the partisan chatter, where contributors are bound only by a simple etiquette.

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By | 02/05/2013 | Breaking News, News, Policy Reform, War and Foreign Policy | 2 Comments

A U.S. Department of Justice white paper on targeted drone strikes, obtained and released by NBC’s Michael Isikoff, outlines the Obama administration’s guidelines for a lawful strike on an American citizen overseas.

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headlines of the week
By | 02/02/2013 | IVN, News

Each week, the IVN editorial team will pick interesting, thought-provoking, and sometimes unusual stories that caught our attention during the previous week. Here are the picks of the week beginning.

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By | 12/27/2012 | Health Care, News | 40 Comments

Last week, the Superior Court of Fulton County temporarily suspended an abortion ban in Georgia that would have made pre-viability abortions illegal. The law would have criminalized most abortions starting at twenty weeks of pregnancy.

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By | 12/06/2012 | Activism, Breaking News, Movements, News, Organizations, US Senate | 21 Comments

US Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) announced on Thursday that he is resigning his seat in the Senate to head the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

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berman sherman debate
By | 10/12/2012 | California, Congressional, Elections 2012, Legislation, Legislators, News, States

The Berman Sherman debate was held on October 11 at Pierce College as part of their Politics at Pierce series. The conversation turned sour when the candidates’ attempts to out-Democrat each other quickly dissolved into a near-physical altercation.

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