Andy Borowitz
| Furious Obama Says Calls to Putin Going Straight to Voice Mail
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In what he called 'a provocative and defiant act,' President Obama charged on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has started letting his calls go directly to voice mail."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In what he called 'a provocative and defiant act,' President Obama charged on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has started letting his calls go directly to voice mail."
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Pro-Russian
Rebels Lower Demands in Peace Talks
Al Jazeera America and Associated Press
Excerpt: "Pro-Russian rebels have reportedly softened their demand for full independence, saying they would respect Ukraine's sovereignty in exchange for autonomy."
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Al Jazeera America and Associated Press
Excerpt: "Pro-Russian rebels have reportedly softened their demand for full independence, saying they would respect Ukraine's sovereignty in exchange for autonomy."
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Halliburton to
Pay $1.1B for Destroying Deepwater Horizon Evidence
Kevin McCoy and Rick Jervis, USA Today
McCoy writes: "The settlement comes just over a year after Houston-based Halliburton admitted destroying evidence and agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge for its role in the oil spill disaster that occurred at a BP (BP) offshore well."
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Kevin McCoy and Rick Jervis, USA Today
McCoy writes: "The settlement comes just over a year after Houston-based Halliburton admitted destroying evidence and agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge for its role in the oil spill disaster that occurred at a BP (BP) offshore well."
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Wall Street
Favorite Eric Cantor Lands $3.4 Million Investment Banking Job
Taylor Wofford, Newsweek
Wofford writes: "Eric Cantor plans to join investment bank Moelis and Co. as vice chairman and managing director, where he will earn a salary of $3.4 million, the company announced in an SEC filing this morning. Cantor will also join the bank's board."
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Taylor Wofford, Newsweek
Wofford writes: "Eric Cantor plans to join investment bank Moelis and Co. as vice chairman and managing director, where he will earn a salary of $3.4 million, the company announced in an SEC filing this morning. Cantor will also join the bank's board."
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Tom Engelhardt
| How America Made ISIS
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Whatever your politics, you're not likely to feel great about America right now. After all, there's Ferguson (the whole world was watching!), an increasingly unpopular president, a Congress whose approval ratings make the president look like a rock star, rising poverty, weakening wages, and a growing inequality gap just to start what could be a long list."
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Whatever your politics, you're not likely to feel great about America right now. After all, there's Ferguson (the whole world was watching!), an increasingly unpopular president, a Congress whose approval ratings make the president look like a rock star, rising poverty, weakening wages, and a growing inequality gap just to start what could be a long list."
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Why Is
Homeland Security So Busy Arming Cops to Fight Americans?
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "For three weeks and counting, America has raged against the appalling behavior of the local police in Ferguson, Missouri, and for good reason: automatic rifles pointed at protesters, tank-like armored trucks blocking marches, the teargassing and arresting of reporters, tactics unfit even for war zones - it was all enough to make you wonder whether this was America at all."
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Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "For three weeks and counting, America has raged against the appalling behavior of the local police in Ferguson, Missouri, and for good reason: automatic rifles pointed at protesters, tank-like armored trucks blocking marches, the teargassing and arresting of reporters, tactics unfit even for war zones - it was all enough to make you wonder whether this was America at all."
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Australia
Abandons Plans to Dump Waste Into Great Barrier Reef
Joanna Heath, The Australian Financial Review
Heath writes: "Plans to dump 3 million cubic metres of material dredged from the ocean floor into the Great Barrier Reef area will be abandoned under changes to already approved plans to expand the Abbot Point coal terminal in Queensland."
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Joanna Heath, The Australian Financial Review
Heath writes: "Plans to dump 3 million cubic metres of material dredged from the ocean floor into the Great Barrier Reef area will be abandoned under changes to already approved plans to expand the Abbot Point coal terminal in Queensland."
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