Inside Jesse Jackson's negotiation to win release of US Vet

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A member of the Cuba council of churches, the group that had invited Jackson to Havana, offered the use of his phone to contact the rebels. But Gomez politely declined, thinking it wouldn't be wise to make the group's cellular telephone number …
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Discipline problems soar in Dallas ISD schools

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Trustees received a detailed report on the number of placements in disciplinary alternative education programs, which are used for more serious infractions. Those placements … Nonfelony drug violations went from 974 to 1,295. Fewer students were sent …
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Ladar Levison was Edward Snowden's email provider, until the FBI came calling …

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The FBI surely knows this fact, because, until recently, Levison ran the email service used by Edward Snowden, the infamous leaker of National Security Agency secrets. In its pursuit of Snowden—a target I'm guessing at, because the FBI won't … He …
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