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Video emerges of Mexican soldiers allegedly torturing detainee. "Do you remember now? Or do you want the bag again? Or water? Or (electric) shocks? Tell me what you want." http://www.cbsnews.com/…/mexican-soldiers-face-charges-aft…/

Microsoft reportedly suing government over secret warrants. "According to the complaint, Microsoft received 5,624 federal demands for customer information or data in the past 18 months. Almost half — 2,576 — came with gag orders, and almost half of those — 1,752 — had “no fixed end date” by which Microsoft would no longer be sworn to secrecy." https://theintercept.com/…/microsoft-says-u-s-is-abusing-s…/

CIA reportedly investing in companies that track social media. "PATHAR’s product, Dunami, is used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to “mine Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media to determine networks of association, centers of influence and potential signs of radicalization,” according to an investigation by Reveal." https://theintercept.com/…/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-…/

Court rules that police can track the location of your cell phone without a warrant. "The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in United States v. Carpenter that law enforcement can legally request cell site location information (CSLI) without a warrant on the grounds that routing data, which is not as accurate as GPS coordinates, is not protected under the Fourth Amendment." http://www.commondreams.org/…/disregarding-privacy-court-ru…

Oxfam claims $1.4 trillion hidden in tax havens by U.S. firms. "As a group, U.S. multinationals report that 43% of their foreign earnings come from five tax haven jurisdictions, yet these countries accounted for only 4% of the companies' foreign workforces and just 7% of their foreign investment." http://www.commondreams.org/…/1400000000000-oxfam-exposes-g…

Federal Bureau of Prisons claims no records of employee trips to CIA blacksite in Afghanistan, despite such visits being documented in Senate torture report. "We have to wonder why a team from that institution would give its approval to a place where prisoners are kept in solitary confinement in near-total darkness 24-7, shackled to the wall standing up, and with a bucket for human waste." http://www.commondreams.org/…/new-lawsuit-wants-know-why-bu…

Some income tax preparers accused of overcharging low income filers. "(Researchers) found that EITC filers would have spent between $309 and $509 in Washington D.C., and Baltimore, which accounted for between 13 percent and 21 percent of the total tax return." http://www.theatlantic.com/…/…/2016/04/eict-tax-prep/478305/

Some Occupy Wall Street activists are supporting Sanders campaign. "In Sanders and in his campaign, the more mainstream elements of Occupy Wall Street have found an ideological ally." http://edition.cnn.com/…/occupy-wall-street-bernie-sanders…/

Texas Dept. of Transportation allegedly denied buyout to family, overpaid real estate developers instead. "(U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Texas, John) Bales says the men profited nearly $13 million dollars from sales of six tracts of land to TxDOT." http://dfw.cbslocal.com/…/developers-charged-with-defraudi…/

Iowa electricity provider makes huge investment in wind power. "With the ($3.6 billion) investment, the Des Moines utility's largest, MidAmerican would get 85 percent of its energy from wind, CEO Bill Fehrman said Thursday at a press conference with Gov. Terry Branstad and Debi Durham, the state's economic development director." http://www.desmoinesregister.com/…/midamerican-en…/83021574/

Union pushing for $15/hour wage and unionization for McDonald's workers. "Protesters calling for pay of $15 an hour and a union were at McDonald's restaurants around the country and overseas Thursday as part of an ongoing push targeting the world's biggest hamburger chain." http://www.sltrib.com/…/mcdonalds-targeted-by-protests-for-…

Three month-old baby dies at daycare first day after mother's maternity leave ends. "There were no external signs of trauma on the infant's body, the Carbon County Coroner's Office confirmed to ABC News. A cause of death has not been determined." http://abcnews.go.com/…/pennsylvania-daycare-closed-…/story…

Peruvian election brings issue of forced sterilizations of indigenous women back into focus. "In the 1990s, at least 300,000 Peruvians were sterilized without their consent; former president Alberto Fujimori oversaw these abuses." http://www.latintimes.com/fujimoris-indigenous-sterilizatio…

UNICEF study finds growing gap in inequality in child welfare in developed countries. "The gap between rich and poor in most wealthy countries is at its highest level in three decades." http://www.voanews.com/…/un-wealthy-countries-…/3285173.html