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Iowans' Passion for Sanders Worries Clinton
Patrick Healy and Yamiche Alcindor, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Iowa Democrats are displaying far less passion for Hillary Clinton than for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont three weeks before the presidential caucuses, creating anxiety inside the Clinton campaign as she scrambles to energize supporters and to court wavering voters."
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Patrick Healy and Yamiche Alcindor, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Iowa Democrats are displaying far less passion for Hillary Clinton than for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont three weeks before the presidential caucuses, creating anxiety inside the Clinton campaign as she scrambles to energize supporters and to court wavering voters."
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owa Democrats are displaying far less passion for Hillary Clinton than for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont three weeks before the presidential caucuses, creating anxiety inside the Clinton campaign as she scrambles to energize supporters and to court wavering voters.
The enthusiasm gap spilled abundantly into view in recent days, from the cheering crowds and emotional outpourings that greeted Mr. Sanders, and in interviews with more than 50 Iowans at campaign stops for both candidates.
Voters have mobbed Mr. Sanders at events since Friday, some jumping over chairs to shake his hand, snap a selfie or thank him for speaking about the middle class. “Did you get to touch him?” asked one woman who could not get close enough after an event here on Saturday.
US Supreme Court: Florida Death Penalty System Is Unconstitutional
Sam Hananel, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Florida's unique system for sentencing people to death is unconstitutional because it gives too much power to judges - and not enough to juries - to decide capital sentences."
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Sam Hananel, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Florida's unique system for sentencing people to death is unconstitutional because it gives too much power to judges - and not enough to juries - to decide capital sentences."
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Maryland County Says 'No' to Obama's Deportation Raids
Clark Mindock, International Business Times
Mindock writes: "Just to the north of Washington, D.C., leaders in the adjacent Montgomery County in Maryland are warning President Barack Obama and his administration that they have no intention of complying with new deportation raids that target women and children who came from Central America, according to WUSA 9."
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Clark Mindock, International Business Times
Mindock writes: "Just to the north of Washington, D.C., leaders in the adjacent Montgomery County in Maryland are warning President Barack Obama and his administration that they have no intention of complying with new deportation raids that target women and children who came from Central America, according to WUSA 9."
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Powerball's $1.3 Billion Swindle of Americans
Judd Legum and Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Excerpt: "If you want to go to the corner store this week to pick up a gallon of milk, be prepared to wait. America has been gripped by lottery fever and lines are snaking out the doors of convenience stores across the county."
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Judd Legum and Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Excerpt: "If you want to go to the corner store this week to pick up a gallon of milk, be prepared to wait. America has been gripped by lottery fever and lines are snaking out the doors of convenience stores across the county."
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Why Hillary Clinton's Call-Out of the Hyde Amendment Is So Important
Christina Cauterucci, Slate
Cauterucci writes: "As she accepted Planned Parenthood's first-ever presidential primary endorsement at a New Hampshire rally on Sunday, Hillary Clinton recited a list of economic and social barriers that prevent women from obtaining abortions."
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Christina Cauterucci, Slate
Cauterucci writes: "As she accepted Planned Parenthood's first-ever presidential primary endorsement at a New Hampshire rally on Sunday, Hillary Clinton recited a list of economic and social barriers that prevent women from obtaining abortions."
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Deadly Suicide Blast Hits Istanbul Tourist Area; Officials Claim Islamic State Links
Erin Cunningham and Brian Murphy, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A suicide bomber believed linked to the Islamic State in Syria set off a powerful blast Tuesday in one of Istanbul's most popular tourist districts, killing at least 10 people and injuring 15, officials said. Most of the victims were Germans."
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Erin Cunningham and Brian Murphy, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A suicide bomber believed linked to the Islamic State in Syria set off a powerful blast Tuesday in one of Istanbul's most popular tourist districts, killing at least 10 people and injuring 15, officials said. Most of the victims were Germans."
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Activists Who Blocked Oil Train Will Argue in Court That It Was Necessary Because of Climate Change
Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "In September 2014, five climate activists with Rising Tide Seattle managed to halt the passage of a crude oil train at the BNSF Delta rail yard in Everett, Wash. After eight hours blocking the tracks, the five were arrested and charged with criminal trespass and blocking a train. Today, they go on trial."
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Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "In September 2014, five climate activists with Rising Tide Seattle managed to halt the passage of a crude oil train at the BNSF Delta rail yard in Everett, Wash. After eight hours blocking the tracks, the five were arrested and charged with criminal trespass and blocking a train. Today, they go on trial."
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Oil train protest. (photo: Light Brigading/Grist)
n September 2014, five climate activists with Rising Tide Seattle managed to halt the passage of a crude oil train at the BNSF Delta rail yard in Everett, Wash. After eight hours blocking the tracks, the five were arrested and charged with criminal trespass and blocking a train. Today, they go on trial.
In court, the activists — known as the Delta 5 — will argue their act of civil disobedience was necessary. A spokesperson for Rising Tide said the activists “will be the first ever to argue that their actions were justified because of the threat of climate change, using the ‘necessity defense’. The outcome of [the] trial could set national precedent for climate related civil disobedience and is being carefully watched.” The defendants will call on a rail safety expert and a climate scientist to argue that their actions were justified.
The train the Delta 5 stopped was carrying crude oil from the Bakken Formation in Montana and North Dakota. Bakken shale oil is particularly explosive, and was responsible for the 2013 conflagration that killed 47 people after a train derailed in Quebec.
The Pacific Northwest is rapidly becoming a hub for trains moving crude oil from the Bakken shale. Regulators in Washington state are currently considering six new oil-by-rail facilities. According to a reportcommissioned by the Sightline Institute, “Northwest oil train terminals could … lead to more oil drilling in the Bakken formation, as much as 114,000 barrels per day beyond what would be produced without the terminals. The resulting greenhouse gas pollution from this extra production could be as much as 30 million tons per year of carbon dioxide—the equivalent of doubling the number of cars on the road in Oregon and Washington.”
It was this fear that motivated the Delta 5.
“There came a point where I could no longer sit back and wait for the politicians to act,” said Delta 5 member Patrick Mazza. “I had to put my body on the line to demand not talk, but action on a massive scale to rapidly replace fossil fuels.”
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