May 16, 2013 (San Diego's East County) -- ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:
U.S.
- White House pushes media shield law (Washington Post)
- IRS: First heads roll (The Hill)
Companies won't face charges in condor deaths (Los Angeles Times)
- Senate overwhelmingly approves water infrastructure bill (Sacramento Bee)
- U.S. Safety board is proposing tougher drunk driving standards (CNN)
- Associated Press: Feds Secretly Obtained Reporter Phone Logs (NPR)
- Holder Defends Subpoena Of Journalists' Phone Logs
- Monsanto: The behemoth that controls 90 percent of soybean production (Marketplace.org)
- Exactly what did the IRS want to know? (NPR)
- Who is profiting from charters? The big bucks behind charter school secrecy, financial scandal and corruption (Alternet)
- Texas man held on pipe bomb charges denies role in fertilizer plant blast (Chicago Tribune)
- Tsarnaev 2011 murders? Boston-bombing brothers also could be linked to earlier deaths. (Christian Science Monitor)
WORLD
- Award goes to Pakistani girl shot by Taliban (U-T San Diego)
- Mexico sets shelters as volcano shakes, spews ash (U-T San Diego)
- Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala (U-T San Diego)
- Rat meat and Chinese food safety (BBC)
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