Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar | Why I Converted to Islam
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Al Jazeera America
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "When you convert to an unfamiliar or unpopular religion, it invites criticism of one's intelligence, patriotism and sanity. I should know. Even though I became a Muslim more than 40 years ago, I'm still defending that choice."
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Al Jazeera America
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "When you convert to an unfamiliar or unpopular religion, it invites criticism of one's intelligence, patriotism and sanity. I should know. Even though I became a Muslim more than 40 years ago, I'm still defending that choice."
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Woman Who Says
She Miscarried Gets 20 Years in Prison for Feticide
Lisa De Bode, Al Jazeera America
De Bode writes: "Activists say the case highlights the way that prosecutors across the U.S. are increasingly using laws designed to protect expecting mothers to criminalize women for terminating a pregnancy or allegedly harming an unborn child."
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Lisa De Bode, Al Jazeera America
De Bode writes: "Activists say the case highlights the way that prosecutors across the U.S. are increasingly using laws designed to protect expecting mothers to criminalize women for terminating a pregnancy or allegedly harming an unborn child."
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Bernie Sanders
Endorses Rahm Challenger Chuy Garcia for Chicago Mayor
David McCabe, The Hill
Excerpt: "'I support them because we need a political revolution in this country and we need the kind of working-class coalitions that Chuy and Susan [Sadlowski] are pulling together.'"
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David McCabe, The Hill
Excerpt: "'I support them because we need a political revolution in this country and we need the kind of working-class coalitions that Chuy and Susan [Sadlowski] are pulling together.'"
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Naomi Klein
and Bill McKibben Call on Paris to Divest in Le Monde Letter
Emma Howard, Guardian UK
Howard writes: "The environmental activists have written an open letter to the Mayor of Paris, asking her to make it the first capital in the world to divest from fossil fuels."
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Emma Howard, Guardian UK
Howard writes: "The environmental activists have written an open letter to the Mayor of Paris, asking her to make it the first capital in the world to divest from fossil fuels."
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American
Pharmacists Association Votes Against Supply of Lethal Injection
Drugs
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A leading association for US pharmacists has told its members they should not provide drugs for use in lethal injections - a move that could make carrying out executions even harder for death penalty states."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "A leading association for US pharmacists has told its members they should not provide drugs for use in lethal injections - a move that could make carrying out executions even harder for death penalty states."
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Nashville
Prosecutors Made Sterilizations Part of Plea Deal Talks
Sheila Burke, Associated Press
"Sterilization coerced by the legal system evokes a dark time in America, when minorities, the poor and those deemed mentally unfit or 'deficient' were forced to undergo medical procedures that prevented them from having children."
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Sheila Burke, Associated Press
"Sterilization coerced by the legal system evokes a dark time in America, when minorities, the poor and those deemed mentally unfit or 'deficient' were forced to undergo medical procedures that prevented them from having children."
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Deepwater Oil
Spill: BP Steps Up PR Effort to Insist All Is Well in the Gulf
Peter Moskowitz, Guardian UK
Moskowitz writes: "But evidence is mounting that five years after millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, wildlife is still struggling to rebound."
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Peter Moskowitz, Guardian UK
Moskowitz writes: "But evidence is mounting that five years after millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, wildlife is still struggling to rebound."
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