Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling
Karolin Schaps, Reuters
Schaps writes: "Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned its Arctic search for oil after failing to find enough crude in a move that will appease environmental campaigners and shareholders who said its project was too expensive and risky."
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Karolin Schaps, Reuters
Schaps writes: "Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned its Arctic search for oil after failing to find enough crude in a move that will appease environmental campaigners and shareholders who said its project was too expensive and risky."
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Elizabeth Warren Just Gave the Speech That Black Lives Matter Activists Have Been Waiting For
Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Lowery writes: "In a Sunday speech on racial inequality, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for broad policing reform - including de-escalation training and body cameras for all police officers - and likened the current Black Lives Matter movement to the civil rights movement that won black Americans the right to vote in the 1960s."
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Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Lowery writes: "In a Sunday speech on racial inequality, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for broad policing reform - including de-escalation training and body cameras for all police officers - and likened the current Black Lives Matter movement to the civil rights movement that won black Americans the right to vote in the 1960s."
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Trump Hotel Workers Use Candidate's Anti-Latino Rhetoric to Galvanize Union
Daniel Hernandez, Guardian UK
Hernandez writes: "In protests, Spanish language radio ads, press releases, and Facebook videos, organizers are highlighting Trump Hotel employees' own immigrant stories, and channeling the Nevada Latino worker community's outrage at the Republican presidential frontrunner into political and union engagement by a population that makes up the bulk of Trump's Las Vegas hotel employees - and a powerful swing state voting bloc."
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Daniel Hernandez, Guardian UK
Hernandez writes: "In protests, Spanish language radio ads, press releases, and Facebook videos, organizers are highlighting Trump Hotel employees' own immigrant stories, and channeling the Nevada Latino worker community's outrage at the Republican presidential frontrunner into political and union engagement by a population that makes up the bulk of Trump's Las Vegas hotel employees - and a powerful swing state voting bloc."
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The Pope's Favorite American Radicals
Virginia Cannon, The New Yorker
Cannon write: "Last week Pope Francis expressed fondness for people who have lived life raw and have complicated stories to tell. He seems to prefer their company to that of people who tend toward piety and entitlement-hence his decision to decline a Capitol Hill luncheon invitation in order to break bread with the homeless. Dorothy Day would have joined him at that table. Thomas Merton would have done so in spirit."
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Virginia Cannon, The New Yorker
Cannon write: "Last week Pope Francis expressed fondness for people who have lived life raw and have complicated stories to tell. He seems to prefer their company to that of people who tend toward piety and entitlement-hence his decision to decline a Capitol Hill luncheon invitation in order to break bread with the homeless. Dorothy Day would have joined him at that table. Thomas Merton would have done so in spirit."
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Owner of Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic Won't Stop Fighting for Her Patients
Max Blau, Guardian UK
Blau writes: "61-year-old abortion activist Diane Derzis has persevered in her field despite the murder of one abortion doctor, the bombing of her clinic, and the perpetual barrage of protesters seeking to shame her clients."
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Max Blau, Guardian UK
Blau writes: "61-year-old abortion activist Diane Derzis has persevered in her field despite the murder of one abortion doctor, the bombing of her clinic, and the perpetual barrage of protesters seeking to shame her clients."
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Despite Warning of Environmental Damage, Egypt Floods Gaza's Tunnels With Seawater
Mohammed Omer, Middle East Eye
Omer writes: "Egyptian military vehicles are transferring Mediterranean Sea water to the Rafah border, to fill a newly-built crude canal, flooding and destroying the lifeline tunnels connecting Egypt and blockaded Gaza. But the story goes deeper: the Egyptian government is trying to economically crush Hamas, an ally of the Muslim brotherhood."
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Mohammed Omer, Middle East Eye
Omer writes: "Egyptian military vehicles are transferring Mediterranean Sea water to the Rafah border, to fill a newly-built crude canal, flooding and destroying the lifeline tunnels connecting Egypt and blockaded Gaza. But the story goes deeper: the Egyptian government is trying to economically crush Hamas, an ally of the Muslim brotherhood."
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