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FOCUS | Elizabeth Warren: $1.2 Trillion Debt Is Crushing Students

Paula J. Owen, Telegram.com
Owen reports: "U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren visited Fitchburg State University Friday morning to discuss with students, faculty and state and local officials the $1.2 trillion in student loan debt that she says is crushing students and putting a strain on the economy."
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Inside the NSA's Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators

Ryan Gallagher and Peter Maass, The Intercept
Gallagher and Maass report: "Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order - and this has turned them into unwitting targets of the National Security Agency for simply doing their jobs."
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Rand Paul Denounces NSA Surveillance in Fiery Speech to Berkeley Crowd
Rory Carroll, Guardian UK
Carroll reports: "Senator Rand Paul has launched another broadside against government surveillance from the liberal bastion of University of California, Berkeley."
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Koch Brothers Are the Largest Land Owners of Canada's Tar Sands
Ari Phillips, ThinkProgress
Phillips reports: "A Koch Industries subsidiary holds leases on 1.1 million acres in the northern Alberta oil sands, an area nearly the size of Delaware."
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US Boycotts UN Drone Talks
Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy
Lynch reports: "Pakistan is trying to push a resolution through the United Nations Human Rights Council that would trigger greater scrutiny of whether U.S. drone strikes violate international human rights law. Washington, though, doesn't want to talk about it."
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Fred Phelps Preached Hate, But His Death Is No Reason to Celebrate
Steven Petrow, The Washington Post
Petrow writes: "Phelps rose to fame (or infamy) for his decades-long work of 'opposing the homosexual lifestyle of soul-damning, nation-destroying filth,' according to the church Web site."
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Fukushima's Shameful Cleanup
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "A pattern of shirking responsibility permeates the decommissioning work at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant."
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