TRNS News Notes By Victoria Jones
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Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday on the topic of Super PAC’s and the role of money in political campaigns, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) describes what he sees as a trend toward oligarchy in America, in which a smaller number of wealthy individuals have greater influence in elections.
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High-profile incidents have prompted an unusually widespread deployment of armed police officers across the country.
Thousands of civilians fleeing the war-ravaged country remain stuck along Syria’s Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish borders.
If we don’t fight for these changes now, they may never happen.
The president will reunite with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R), who praised Obama’s response last year to Hurricane Sandy.
Text messages and pictures were found on the 17-year-old’s cellphone. The text-message discussions included one about drug use and pictures of marijuana plants and a gun.
The percentages range from 62 percent in Atlanta to as high as 86 percent in Chicago.
