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Trouble the Water is one of the most powerful documentaries I've seen in a long time. It deservingly won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last year, and is now getting a broadcast run on HBO (I watched it last night). Watch it On Demand, rent it (when it comes out), do what you have to do, but don't miss it.

Almost 70 percent of all U.S. food aid goes to Africa, shipped on American-flagged vessels like the Maersk-Alabama, which was captured earlier this month by Somali pirates. Andrew Natsios, former administrator of the U.S Agency for International Development, the current distribution system of food aid is expensive, slow and vulnerable to pirates.

Preliminary results indicate that South Africa's ruling African National Congress appears to be leading in parliamentary elections. If the party wins, Jacob Zuma would become president.

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Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is calling for an independent panel to determine whether top officials who authorized the use of harsh interrogation tactics should be punished for doing so.

The American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of Hispanic groups have demanded that the city of Escondido change its driver's license checkpoints, calling them "fishing expeditions" that are intended to identify and deport illegal immigrants.

South African voters showed up at the polls in record numbers Wednesday in an election that has stirred more excitement than any since the election of Nelson Mandela ended the apartheid era 15 years ago.

The San Diego County Supervisors voted yesterday to enact a new plan meant to increase the number of people participating in the food stamp program. But critics say some of the steps required to get assistance actually deter people from signing up.

Abdolfatah Soltani, a leading human rights lawyer, tells NPR that Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi's legal team has been denied access to Roxana Saberi, the 31-year-old American journalist sentenced to eight years in Tehran's Evin prison on Saturday after being convicted of espionage.

A UCSD psychologist says kids with autism see the world in a different way, and that may actually cause their behavior problems.