Tuesday, August 16, 2016

RSN: Climate Change Will Make Choosing a City to Host the Olympics Almost Impossible, John Oliver Slams Trump's 'Bulls**t', Assange: DOJ Set 'New Standard' for Clinton,




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John Oliver Slams Trump's 'Bulls**t' 
John Oliver. (photo: HBO) 
Ryan Reed, Rolling Stone 
Reed writes: "On Sunday's Last Week Tonight, John Oliver called out Donald Trump for his 'douchebag's apology' to President Obama for calling him the 'founder of ISIS.'" 
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US Transfers 15 Guantanamo Detainees in Largest Single Release Under Obama 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "The largest single transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees of Barack Obama's presidency was announced on Monday, as 15 long-held men departed the infamous detention center." 
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New York City to Settle With Family of Akai Gurley for $4,100,000 
Breanna Edwards, The Root 
Edwards writes: "New York City has agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of Akai Gurley, who was fatally shot by an officer in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project, the New York Post reports." 
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Doctors Without Borders Hospital Bombing in Yemen Earns Rare Saudi Rebuke at State Department 
Alex Emmons, The Intercept 
Emmons writes: "After the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition bombed a hospital in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders on Monday, the U.S. State Department offered a rare condemnation of the coalition's violence." 
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Assange: DOJ Set 'New Standard' for Clinton 
Mark Hensch, The Hill 
Excerpt: "Our D.C. lawyers are delivering a letter tomorrow to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking her to explain why it is that the now six-year-long national security and criminal investigation being run against WikiLeaks, the reason I have political asylum, has not been closed." 
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Gareth Porter | Rigging the Coverage of Syria 
Gareth Porter, Consortium News 
Porter writes: "The major U.S. news media has consistently slanted its coverage of the Syrian conflict to back neocon desires for more U.S. military intervention in support of 'regime change.'" 
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Climate Change Will Make Choosing a City to Host the Olympics Almost Impossible 
Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress 
Geiling writes: "Preliminary results of an ongoing study published Friday in the journal Lancet warn that infrastructure and security issues could be dwarfed by another huge problem for potential host cities in coming years: it could become simply too hot and humid for many cities to host the games at all." 
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