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Waters have dams at risk of failing, the wwe losing a legend, china is dead at the age of 45, the latest on this tragedy this morning, the automaker buying back 5000 diesel cars. A major makeover, the treasury replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the front of the bill. An incredible play, aaron hicks breaking a record for the fastest ball ever flown. At home plate, beat the runner coming up and turning to markets, mixed reaction in asia with news on the economy, the nikkei average is ...

Amy we will discuss Merrick Garlands record with terry oneill, president of the National Organization for women and Ian Millhiser, author of, injustices the Supreme Courts history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. Then to one of the Worst Supreme Court rulings in history. We will speak to adam cohen, author of, imbeciles the Supreme Court, american eugenics, and the sterilization of carrie buck. This was a case about a poor woman, nothing was wrong with her but being fe...

Nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize it for purposes of the election. Amy we will discuss rrick garlands record with terry oneill, president of the National Organization for women and Ian Millhiser, author of, injustices the Supreme Courts history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. Then to one of the Worst Supreme Court rulings in history. We will speak to adam cohen, author of, imbeciles the Supreme Court, american e...

This is Al Jazeera America, good morning and live from new york city, im Randall Pinkston, a kentucky clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs faces a judge today, kim davis and her staff will appear in federal court to face contempt charges for davis continued defiance of the law, she refuses to issue licenses to anyone to avoid giving them to gay couples and we have more at the woman at the center of the controversy. Kim davis is hoping this federal judge w...

Explosives has been found but its a suspicion shared by britain. We obviously have a strong desire to get to the bottom of what exactly happened there. Noone is ruling out a technical fault as the cause the black box recorders are still being worked on. Well the egyptians are really kicking back now. The government minister saying he simply doesnt accept the us theory as fact. But egypt has now fired the head of the airport from where the plane took off and investigators have found really lax se...

Theyre doing hard work cleaning up a cluttered closet to the First Amendment where lower courts are in disagreement and everyone is a little bit at sea. The first of these, a case involving the socalled truth rats doctrine. There is a lot of speech protected by the First Amendment, there is a lot of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment and this is a question of when is threatening language protected and when is it not protected . The question is in order to be unprotected by the F...

Because its the right thing to do but i cant. And i said i wouldve voted against it because it would help me politically but i cant. But everyone knew it was going to be listed. All of the rhetoric would take place, the accusations. But eventually we would vote to raise the debt ceiling as we always did. And it was amazing to me that eventually became such a critical issue that it could have resulted as the country going into default, an issue that the Previous Congress had been debated and peop...

Of us. Hes not conservative enough for us. Conservatives sayin say this whh obviously is a front group, but when you saw, and this is different but tells you an example of how this is can work effectively, you saw Senate Democrat effectively nominate a [inaudible] lowder, rick. [inaudible] in indiana, yet. Missouri i mean. Todd akin, thank you. This is where the sleep deprivation is ticking and. Remember, they ran tv ads, somebody, i dont know who, todd akin is too conservative for missouri. In ...

Redefine fulltime as working 40 hours a week. Move on the keystone x. L. Pipeline. They write theyll focus first on jobs and the economy. That means a renewed effort to debate and vote on the many bills that passed the republicanled house in recrept years with bipartisan support but were never even brought to a vote by the Democratic Senate majority. It also means renewing our commitment to repeal obamacare which is hurting the job market along with Americans Health care. Youll find more online ...

Hear from you about. President obama addressed that in his postelection News Conference at the white house this week. A portion of that News Conference. Congress will pass some bills i cannot sign. I am pretty sure i will take some actions that some in congress will not like. That is how our democracy works. But we can surely find ways to Work Together on issues where there is broad agreement among the american people. I look forward to republicans putting forward their governing agenda. I will ...