Tuesday, May 17, 2016

RSN: Donald Trump's Name Appears 3,540 Times in Leaked Panama Document, Bernie Sanders Takes Anti-Wall Street Message to Puerto Rico




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Donald Trump's Name Appears 3,540 Times in Leaked Panama Documents
Donald Trump. (photo: AP)
Kevin G. Hall, Franco Ordonez and Vera Bergengruen, McClatchy DC
Excerpt: "The Trump name shows up on 3,540 of the leaked documents, many shedding light on what has become a business model. Some of his associates and business partners are also in the files."
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NSA Closely Involved in Guantanamo Interrogations, Documents Show
Cora Currier, The Intercept
Currier writes: "Personnel from the National Security Agency worked alongside the military, CIA, and other agencies on interrogations at Guantanamo in the early days of the war on terror, new documents show."
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Bernie Sanders Takes Anti-Wall Street Message to Puerto Rico
MaryAlice Parks, ABC
Parks writes: "Sanders called for an independent audit of the island's debt and for the U.S. Federal Reserve System to use its emergency authority and allow for Puerto Rico to restructure its debt through bankruptcy court."
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Can the Christian Left Be a Real Political Force?
Ruth Graham, Slate
Graham writes: "The cracking apart of evangelicalism's influence is more than the end of an era. It's an opportunity - for Democrats picturing a broad victory in November, yes, and for Republicans who think their party needs reinvention. But it's also an opening for another 'silent majority' within American society: liberal Christians."
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One Way to Help People Stay out of Jail? Sign Them Up for Health Insurance.
Alex Zielinski, ThinkProgress
Zielinski writes: "For the thousands of incarcerated Americans, prison may be the first place they've ever received comprehensive health care. But what happens after their sentence is up?"
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Canada to Introduce Transgender Rights Bill
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Canada will introduce a new bill to strengthen the rights of transgender people and protect them from discrimination, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday in Montreal."
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Plan to Store Nuclear Waste Near Great Lakes Proves Radioactive
Steve Friess, The Washington Post
Friess writes: "The planned Deep Geological Repository is controversial in part because it would sit about a mile from the bottom of Lake Huron. And that has prompted widespread activism throughout the Great Lakes region among those who see the concept as too risky for the 40 million people who rely on this, the largest freshwater network in the world."
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