One Oregon militant is dead and six have been arrested after FBI and Oregon State Police officials pulled over their vehicles Tuesday following a three-week stand-off at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The identity of the person killed has not been released, but Ryan Bundy, 43, suffered a minor gunshot wound during the highway stop about 15 ( Read more... )

After pranksters sent the militia group occupying an Oregon federal bird sanctuary boxes of sex toys, the founder of Cards Against Humanity joined in on the fun by mailing the anti-government zealots a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant.


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The FBI has taken the lead in monitoring an armed standoff in Oregon where a group of militia members, along with some members of the family of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, are occupying a building on federal land at a national wildlife refuge.

The FBI is "working with the Harney County Sheriff's Office, Oregon State Police and other local and ( Read more... )

By Ashley Fantz and Holly Yan

Armed anti-government protesters have taken over a building in a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, accusing officials of unfairly punishing ranchers who refused to sell their land.

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(CNN)Ten people were killed when a gunman opened fire at Oregon's Umpqua Community College on Thursday, forcing the nation to face yet another mass shooting.

Seven other people were injured, and the shooter is dead, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin told reporters. Earlier estimates had put the number of people hurt much higher.

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As the Oregonian reported, residents in Portland’s New Columbia community are calling for reform of a policy that allowed two officers to take a nine-year-old girl into custody without a juvenile court order last year. The girl - who was wearing a wet bathing suit, flip flops, and a towel - was handcuffed, fingerprinted, and photographed without a ( Read more... )

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Oregon may have solved the student loan crisis
Debt-free higher education plan is like "an inverse of Social Security"

Last week Congress allowed the interest rate on subsidized federal Stafford student loans to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. This was just the latest in a series of indignities for students, whose debt burden has ( Read more... )

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15 States including Texas have filed a petition to secede from the United States
Texas files petition to secede from United States
November 11, 2012
By: Sheila Carroll

As of Saturday November 10, 2012, 15 States have petitioned the Obama Administration for withdrawal from the United States of America in order to create its own government.States ( Read more... )