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Four years after she fled her family's gay-hating Westboro Baptist Church, Libby Phelps-Alvarez's journey is far from complete. Scale of government's AP records seizure surprises manyThe Obama administration has zealously prosecuted leaks involving national security, but the secret collection of records for 20 Associated Press phone lines reaches a new level. Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firmBiowarfare consultant Richard J. Danzig urged the government to stockpile a type of anthrax remedy. But he had a stake in one such drug's success. In a border town, a newspaper forced to be silentAfter violent attacks on its offices, El Manana backs off from reporting on drug cartels. 'There's no freedom of speech in Nuevo Laredo,' says a reader. |
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