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William Boardman | Only US Nuclear Weapons Waste Storage Site Still Closed and Hot

William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "More than two months after Plutonium and Americium leaked from the supposedly leak-proof underground nuclear weapons waste storage facility in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) still does not know what caused the leak almost half a mile underground, but on April 17, an exploration crew found increasing radiation levels before retreating to safety."
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High Court Upholds Michigan Affirmative Action Ban
Scott Neuman, National Public Radio
Neuman writes: "The Supreme Court has ruled that a Michigan ballot initiative to ban racial preferences in college admissions is constitutional, overturning a lower court decision."
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Todd Miller | The Creation of a Border Security State
Todd Miller, TomDispatch
Miller writes: "In our brave, new, post-9/11 world, as long as we're talking 'homeland security' or 'war on terror,' anything can be redefined. So why not a border?"
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How Chicago Became Chiraq, With 45 Shot Over Easter Weekend
Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Daly writes: "President Obama may have gotten our troops out of Iraq, but the gunfire in his hometown of Chicago is still earning it a searing nickname coined by young people who live there. Chiraq."
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Five Ways Arizona's Abortion Restrictions Are Hurting Women
Erika L. Sanchez, Rolling Stone
Sanchez writes: "Abortion rights are under attack across the country: Last year alone, the Guttmacher Institute has found that 70 abortion restriction measures were enacted in 22 states."
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'Piles and Piles' of Bodies in S. Sudan Slaughter
Jason Straziuso, Associated Press
Straziuso reports: "The ethnically targeted killings in a provincial capital are 'quite possibly a game-changer' for a conflict that has been raging since mid-December and that has exposed longstanding ethnic hostilities."
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Netflix Comes Out Against Comcast/Time Warner Merger
Brad Reed, Boy Genius Report
Reed writes: "In its letter to shareholders released Monday, Netflix said that a combined Comcast and TWC would 'possess even more anticompetitive leverage to charge arbitrary interconnection tolls for access to their customers.'"
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