The Republican Platform Hearings in San Diego got off to a controversial start yesterday as Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed won his battle to get language expressing tolerance for different views on abortion wiped off the platform document. Pacifica National Affairs Correspondent Larry Bensky is in San Diego covering the hearings, leading up to the Republican National Convention next week.
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The United States has formally confirmed for the first time that it killed four American citizens in Yemen and Pakistan, “outside of areas of active hostilities." Watch Democracy Now! Thursday when we get reaction from Jeremy Scahill, author of "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield."
