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The Bush Administration relies on secrecy to cover up illegal spying on Americans and the torture of Salim Hamdan in US custody.  Read more

  A Houston TV station presented the results of an investigation, on August 1st  showing military recruiters bullying schoolkids and threatening them with prison. The recruiters lie to the high schoolers, telling them that the 'delayed entry' program is a binding contract... Read more

 Could the legendary D.B. Cooper have actually been a woman?  That’s what two Washington Authors contend in their new book.  Kboo’s Jacob Anderson-Minshall has more on the story. Read more

  The Free Gaza movement is a group of international and Palestinian activists working to open the Gaza Strip, an area which is currently under siege by Israeli military forces.The group is currently in Cyprus loading medical supplies onto fishing ships. On Tuesday, they wi... Read more

 Last Tuesday, KBOO reported a story about an alleged kidnapping that was reported in the Salt Lake City media.Instead of a kidnapping, the story turned out to be a false accusation that resulted into brutal hate crime committed against two gay men. In a follow-up to this s... Read more

 Small Pacific islands are facing increasing pressure as global warming bring higher tides.KBOO’s Beth Crawford has the story.  Read more

 Today legacy emanuel hospital workers represented by S-E-I-U Local 49 are picketing in front of the north portland hospital to demand the same benefits and pay to their co-workers at Legacy Good Sam in North West Portland. After months of bargaining, legacy is offering a... Read more

Last Thursday, the Portland Tribune reported that the new indoor Day Labor Site run by Portland-based Voz Worker's Rights Education Project, hasn't been as popular with day laborers as they hoped. KBOO's Scott Pham spoke with Romeo Sosa of Voz. Read more

KBOO presents the latest on privacy issues from Civil Liberties Watch: Read more

 The Human Rights Campaign, or HRC, held a fund raiser in San Francisco last week to help defeat a November ballot measure that would ban gay marriage in California. The hrc is one of the largest national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organizations, ... Read more