Andy Borowitz
| Obama Signs Passive-Aggressive Executive Order
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Telling Congress, 'It's O.K., I don't mind doing everything myself,' President Obama prepared to sign a passive-aggressive executive order on Tuesday."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Telling Congress, 'It's O.K., I don't mind doing everything myself,' President Obama prepared to sign a passive-aggressive executive order on Tuesday."
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Michael
Winship | How DC Insiders Help Wall Street
Michael Winship, Consortium News
Winship writes: "Looking over the last few weeks of news, if you would seek a single headline that sums up the Hulk-like grip in which corporate America holds the U.S. Congress, this might be it: 'Eric Cantor's Loss a Blow to Wall Street.'"
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Michael Winship, Consortium News
Winship writes: "Looking over the last few weeks of news, if you would seek a single headline that sums up the Hulk-like grip in which corporate America holds the U.S. Congress, this might be it: 'Eric Cantor's Loss a Blow to Wall Street.'"
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Hong Kong
Government Arrests Hundreds of Democracy Protesters, Warns 'Violence Is
Imminent'
Hayes Brown, ThinkProgress
Brown writes: "Police in Hong Kong early Wednesday morning arrested more than 500 protesters after the city's annual protest to encourage more democracy in the territory."
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Hayes Brown, ThinkProgress
Brown writes: "Police in Hong Kong early Wednesday morning arrested more than 500 protesters after the city's annual protest to encourage more democracy in the territory."
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African
Leaders Vote to Give Themselves Immunity From War Crimes
Associated Press
Excerpt: "African leaders gathered for a continent-wide summit voted to give themselves and their allies immunity from prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide at a new African Court of Justice and Human Rights."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "African leaders gathered for a continent-wide summit voted to give themselves and their allies immunity from prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide at a new African Court of Justice and Human Rights."
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Do Public
School Teachers Have Any Friends in the Obama Administration?
Diane Ravitch, DianeRavitch.net
Ravitch writes: "Never before has there been a serious and sustained effort to defund public education, to turn public money over to unaccountable private hands, and to weaken and eliminate collective bargaining wherever it still exists. And this effort is not only well-coordinated but funded by billionaires who have grown wealthy in a free market and can't see any need for regulation or unions or public schools."
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Diane Ravitch, DianeRavitch.net
Ravitch writes: "Never before has there been a serious and sustained effort to defund public education, to turn public money over to unaccountable private hands, and to weaken and eliminate collective bargaining wherever it still exists. And this effort is not only well-coordinated but funded by billionaires who have grown wealthy in a free market and can't see any need for regulation or unions or public schools."
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Six LA County
Deputies Convicted of Impeding FBI's Jail Probe
Victoria Kim, Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "A jury Tuesday found six members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department guilty of attempting to impede a federal civil rights inquiry into the county jails, providing prosecutors with a decisive victory as they continue to investigate higher-level officials tied to the scandal."
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Victoria Kim, Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "A jury Tuesday found six members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department guilty of attempting to impede a federal civil rights inquiry into the county jails, providing prosecutors with a decisive victory as they continue to investigate higher-level officials tied to the scandal."
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An Entire
Island Nation Is Preparing to Evacuate to Fiji Before They Sink Into the
Pacific
Gwynn Guilford, QUARTZ
Excerpt: "This has to be the weirdest business deal of the week: The Church of England just sold a chunk of forest-covered land on the Fijian island Vanau Levu for $8.8 million to the government of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati."
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Gwynn Guilford, QUARTZ
Excerpt: "This has to be the weirdest business deal of the week: The Church of England just sold a chunk of forest-covered land on the Fijian island Vanau Levu for $8.8 million to the government of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati."
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