When the city down Temple Courts five years ago, staff assured her that she and her neighbors would return. That there was a plan. That this time wouldn’t be like the others, when poor, black neighborhoods were paved over in the name of progress.
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In rural Tennessee, a new way to help hungry children: A bus turned bread truck
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After Supreme Court ruling, southern States rush to establish new laws requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, which would make it harder for many poor people and members of minorities to vote
State officials across the South are aggressively moving ahead with new laws requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls after the Supreme Court decision striking down a portion of the Voting Rights Act.
A coup? Or something else? $1.5 billion in US aid is on the line
WASHINGTON — By all accounts, the generals removed the democratically elected president, put him in detention, arrested his allies and suspended the Constitution. Army vehicles and soldiers in riot gear roamed the streets, while jet fighters roared overhead.
Ahead of elections, India’s cabinet establishes food security program that grants the right to food
NEW DELHI – Frustrated by delays in Parliament, and eager to gain favor with rural voters ahead of national elections, India’s cabinet has approved a sweeping executive order that establishes a legal right to food and will create what is likely to be the world’s largest food subsidy system for the poor.
Barring of Bolivan plane infuriates Latin America as Snowden case widens
CARACAS, Venezuela — The geopolitical storm churned up by Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American intelligence contractor, continued to spread on Wednesday as Latin American leaders roundly condemned the refusal to let Bolivia’s president fly over several European nations, rallying to his side after Bolivian officials said the president’s plane had been thwarted because of suspicions that Mr. Snowden was on board.
Bolivia complains to UN after Evo Morales’ plane ‘kidnapped.’ US refuses to comment on Morales plane but admits contact with other nations over potential Snowden flights.
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US postal service logging all mail for law enforcement
WASHINGTON — Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home.
Military reasserts its allegiance to its privileges
CAIRO — For most of his year in power, President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood thought they had tamed Egypt’s military, forcing out top generals and reaching a deal with their successors that protected the armed forces from civilian oversight.
Army ousts Egypt’s president; Morsi is taken into military custody
CAIRO — Egypt’s military officers removed the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on Wednesday, suspended the Constitution and installed an interim government presided over by a senior jurist.
