"Armed troops do not belong near ballot boxes," the head of the District of Columbia ACLU told Common Dreams.

"Armed troops do not belong near ballot boxes," the head of the District of Columbia ACLU told Common Dreams.

Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.