Bernie Sanders
| I Will Be a Candidate for President
Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
"After a year of travel, discussion and dialogue, I have decided to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. But let's be clear. This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders. It about a grassroots movement of Americans standing up and saying: 'Enough is enough.'"
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Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
"After a year of travel, discussion and dialogue, I have decided to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. But let's be clear. This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders. It about a grassroots movement of Americans standing up and saying: 'Enough is enough.'"
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Freddie Gray:
Protests Across US as Baltimore Forced to Free 100 Suspects
Nicky Woolf, Oliver Laughland and Steven W. Thrasher, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray spread across the US overnight as the city at the centre of the storm used national guard troops to help maintain a curfew and authorities were forced into an apparent backdown after holding suspected rioters for days without charge."
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Nicky Woolf, Oliver Laughland and Steven W. Thrasher, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray spread across the US overnight as the city at the centre of the storm used national guard troops to help maintain a curfew and authorities were forced into an apparent backdown after holding suspected rioters for days without charge."
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Pope Francis
Calls for Equal Pay for Women
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Pope Francis added his voice Wednesday to calls for equal pay for women, saying it is 'pure scandal' that many of them earn less than men for doing the same jobs."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "Pope Francis added his voice Wednesday to calls for equal pay for women, saying it is 'pure scandal' that many of them earn less than men for doing the same jobs."
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Supreme Court
Asks if Execution Drugs Are Like Being 'Burned Alive at the
Stake'
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "The prospect of death row inmates being 'burned alive at the stake from inside' in the absence of effective anesthesia was invoked at the US supreme court on Wednesday as the justices wrestled with the nationwide crisis caused by the European-led boycott of lethal injection drugs."
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Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "The prospect of death row inmates being 'burned alive at the stake from inside' in the absence of effective anesthesia was invoked at the US supreme court on Wednesday as the justices wrestled with the nationwide crisis caused by the European-led boycott of lethal injection drugs."
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Lawmakers Seek
to End Spies' Mass Collection of Phone Data
Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to end spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone data, setting up a potential showdown over the program, which expires on June 1."
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Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to end spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone data, setting up a potential showdown over the program, which expires on June 1."
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US Doesn't
Know How Many Afghans Are Fighting the Taliban
Jonathan Broder, Newsweek
Broder writes: "After nearly a decade of training, equipping and paying for Afghanistan's security forces, the United States has no idea how many Afghan soldiers and police are currently serving or how effective they are at fighting the Taliban."
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Jonathan Broder, Newsweek
Broder writes: "After nearly a decade of training, equipping and paying for Afghanistan's security forces, the United States has no idea how many Afghan soldiers and police are currently serving or how effective they are at fighting the Taliban."
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Frack-Happy
Texas Forced to Face the Reality of Fracking-Related Earthquakes
Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch
Pantsios writes: "Texas is not known for using caution when it comes to oil and gas development. Fracking has swept the state like a hurricane, despite attempts by some environmental and community activists."
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Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch
Pantsios writes: "Texas is not known for using caution when it comes to oil and gas development. Fracking has swept the state like a hurricane, despite attempts by some environmental and community activists."
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