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Elizabeth Warren | Why I Ran for Office
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren held a reading from her book 'A Fighting Chance' at Springfield Technical Community College on Friday evening. (photo: Dave Roback/The Republican)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Warren writes: "Big banks give their regulators certified financial statements every three months, year after year, showing that the bank is in good shape. Meanwhile, they sell billions of dollars' worth of mortgages that stink to high heaven."
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Cecily McMillan Jurors Tell Judge Occupy Activist Should Not Go to Jail
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine reports: "A majority of the jurors who this week convicted an Occupy Wall Street activist of assaulting a New York police officer have asked the judge in her case to not send her to prison."
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Putin Marks Victory in Crimea, More Bloodshed in Ukraine
Darya Korsunskaya and Alexander Winning, Reuters
Excerpt: "President Vladimir Putin flew in to Crimea on Friday, marking the Soviet victory in World War Two and proclaiming the success of the peninsula's seizure from a Ukraine that Russia says has been taken over by fascists."
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Why There's No Such Thing as a Private Facebook Chat
Lauren C. Williams, ThinkProgress
Williams reports: "If you think your messages to your Facebook friends are private, think again. The social network announced that it has plans to look at your personal conversations as a way to make more profits from targeted advertising."
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Rahm Emanuel Jumps on the Hillary Clinton Bandwagon
Philip Rucker, The Washington Post
Rucker writes: "Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel officially backed Hillary Rodham Clinton's prospective presidential campaign on Friday, calling the former secretary of state 'a champion for the American people.'"
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Vermont GMO Labeling Law Signed by Governor
Burlington Free Press
Excerpt: "Standing on the Statehouse steps before a legion of activists, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law a bill Thursday that could make Vermont the first state to require genetically modified foods to be labeled - and the first state to be sued over it."
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