Crowds Chant
"I Can't Breathe" in Protest of Grand Jury Decision in Eric Garner
Case
Brynn Gingras, Jonathan Dienst and Alexandra Leon, NBC News
Excerpt: "Hours after a grand jury cleared an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, crowds gathered at the site on Staten Island where the 43-year-old father died as others began a silent 'lie-down' protest at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan and still others marched toward Times Square shouting, 'I can't breathe!'"
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Brynn Gingras, Jonathan Dienst and Alexandra Leon, NBC News
Excerpt: "Hours after a grand jury cleared an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, crowds gathered at the site on Staten Island where the 43-year-old father died as others began a silent 'lie-down' protest at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan and still others marched toward Times Square shouting, 'I can't breathe!'"
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Officer Who
Fatally Shot Tamir Rice Deemed Unfit for Duty in 2012
Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK
McCarthy writes: "A police officer who shot a 12-year-old dead in a Cleveland park late last month had been judged unfit for police service two years earlier by a small suburban force where he worked for six months."
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Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK
McCarthy writes: "A police officer who shot a 12-year-old dead in a Cleveland park late last month had been judged unfit for police service two years earlier by a small suburban force where he worked for six months."
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DC City
Council Votes to Reform Civil Forfeiture Laws, Ban "Policing for
Profit"
Nick Sibilla, Forbes
Sibilla reports: "The Council of the District of Columbia voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of overhauling the city's civil forfeiture laws, which lets police seize property from people never charged with a crime. Law enforcement can then pocket all of the proceeds gained from forfeiture."
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Nick Sibilla, Forbes
Sibilla reports: "The Council of the District of Columbia voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of overhauling the city's civil forfeiture laws, which lets police seize property from people never charged with a crime. Law enforcement can then pocket all of the proceeds gained from forfeiture."
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NASA Is
Launching a Spacecraft That Will Take Humans to Mars
Justin Bachman, Bloomberg News
Bachman reports: "NASA is launching its boldest test flight in decades this week. An unmanned capsule will head off on Thursday to reach a distance of 3,600 miles from Earth - the farthest space mission with a craft designed to accommodate humans since the final Apollo 17 trip to the moon in 1972."
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Justin Bachman, Bloomberg News
Bachman reports: "NASA is launching its boldest test flight in decades this week. An unmanned capsule will head off on Thursday to reach a distance of 3,600 miles from Earth - the farthest space mission with a craft designed to accommodate humans since the final Apollo 17 trip to the moon in 1972."
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UK Introduces
"Google Tax" Aimed at Economic Activity Shifted Overseas
Lisa Fleisher, The Wall Street Journal
Fleisher reports: "The tax, dubbed a 'Google tax' by the British press, is expected to raise more than £1 billion ($1.56 billion) over five years, Mr. Osborne said."
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Lisa Fleisher, The Wall Street Journal
Fleisher reports: "The tax, dubbed a 'Google tax' by the British press, is expected to raise more than £1 billion ($1.56 billion) over five years, Mr. Osborne said."
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The Last Time
the Arctic Was Ice-Free During the Summer, Modern Humans Didn't
Exist
Eric Holthaus, Slate Magazine
Holthaus reports: "Scientists aren't exactly sure what happened during the most recent major ice-free period, but it's often considered an analog to our future, warmer Earth. The only difference is, the gap in Arctic sea ice that scientists believe will happen by midcentury is being caused by us."
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Eric Holthaus, Slate Magazine
Holthaus reports: "Scientists aren't exactly sure what happened during the most recent major ice-free period, but it's often considered an analog to our future, warmer Earth. The only difference is, the gap in Arctic sea ice that scientists believe will happen by midcentury is being caused by us."
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