Curiously, Cuba substitutes private property for communism in its new constitution

"The current draft omits a clause in the 1976 constitution on the ultimate aim of building a 'communist society', instead simply focusing on socialism. 'This does not mean we are renouncing our ideas,' Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly, was quoted as saying by state-run media. Cuba had simply moved into a different era following the fall of the Soviet Union, he added."

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California throws out petition to split into 3 states at environmental group’s prompting

"The California Supreme Court shot down the controversial initiative from appearing on the November ballot in a unanimous decision, writing that 'significant questions have been raised regarding the proposition's validity.'"

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N.S.A. Says It’s Purging Millions of Illegally Gathered Call and Text Records

"The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk."

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