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Today's lead stories:
Alfredo Gonzalez Seeks to Make Patriot Act Permanent
Email Center of Controversy in Yucca Mountain Hearing
Yucca Mountain Proposal Plagued by Problems
Left-Wing Regional Victories in Italy
California Debates Revision to Worker's Compensation Law
Community Launches Low Power FM in Nashville
FSRN Headlines
More $ for Nukes?
The Nation's top nuclear weapons administrator wants additional
money from Congress to develop more advanced systems. Kelly
Giddens has more from D.C.
Lousiana Court Says $ Considered in Poor's Prosecutions
The Louisiana state Supreme Court says that prosecutions of
the poor can be halted until there is enough money to pay
public defenders. Mabíli Ajaní reports from
La Place, Louisiana.
Feminist Party In Sweden
A new party calling itself the Feminist Initiative was introduced
in Sweden. Ezgi Sirtas has more.
More Capital Punishment Worldwide Than Ever Before
According to Amnesty International, there are more state sponsored
executions world wide than there have been in the past 25
years. China leads the list of nations with more than 34-hundred
out of a global total of more than 7-thousand. China, Iran,
Viet Nam and the United States perform 97-percent of all state
sponsored executions. On the flip side, five countries abolished
the death penalty for all crimes in 2004 - Bhutan, Greece,
Samoa, Senegal and Turkey. Kristin Houle with Amnesty International
says the real problem is that it is virtually impossible to
know about all executions. (SOUND) 120 countries have abolished
the death penalty in law or practice. In the United States
six people were sentenced to death and later released on the
grounds of being found innocent. Houle says the U.S. Supreme
Court also put the United States on the list of countries
that outlaws juvenile exectutions.
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Alfredo Gonzalez Seeks to Make Patriot Act Permanent
(4:16)
Congress is beginning its debate on whether to renew over
a dozen sections of the USA Patriot Act that expire by the
end of the year. While some lawmakers are calling for either
the end or the modification of provisions that give federal
authorities access to library records and sneak and peak surveillance,
Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez testified today in the Senate
that all provisions set to expire must be made permanent and
that some parts of the Patriot Act must be strengthened. Mitch
Jeserich was at the hearing and he brings us this report.
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Email Center of Controversy in Yucca Mountain Hearing
(1:36)
Emails are now at the center of a scandal that could affect
the use of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump site. House
members of the Federal Workforce and Agency Organization Subcommittee
met today to hear whether allegations of false data created
by United States Geological Survey employees were true. Selina
Musuta of the DC Radio Co-op gives an update from the capitol.
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Yucca Mountain Proposal Plagued by Problems
(5:01)
As fraudulent science within the US Geological Survey threatens
to bury the plan to make Nevada's Yucca Mountain the nation's
repository for spent nuclear waste, other factors are also
under investigation, including cost over-runs and safety concerns
in transporting the waste across the country. Alan Naumann
has more.
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Left-Wing Regional Victories in Italy (1:23)
Regional elections were held in 13 out of 20 Italian regions
during the weekend. Given the right wing's majority in the
Italian government, the left wing coalition's overwhelming
gain in 10 regions came as surprise. FSRN's Diletta Varlese
reports.
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California Debates Revision to Worker's Compensation
Law (4:17)
Last week, the Texas House of Representatives passed legislation
to overhaul the state's compensation system for injured workers.
Missouri governor Matt Blunt signed a similar bill reforming
that state's worker's comp guidelines. Meanwhile, hundreds
of injured workers and their attorneys rallied in San Francisco
yesterday, as California's Division of Workers' Compensation
held the last public hearing on proposed cuts in permanent
disability payments for workplace injuries. FSRN correspondent
Vinny Lombardo has the story.
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Community Launches Low Power FM in Nashville
(3:44)
Independent media activists and community members have launched
a low-power FM radio station in Nashville, Tennessee. Ingrid
Drake from the DC Radio Co-op reports.
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