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Jury Finds Bundy Brothers Not Guilty of All Federal Conspiracy, Gun Charges
Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive
Bernstein writes: "A federal jury on Thursday found Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and five co-defendants not guilty of conspiring to prevent federal employees from doing their jobs through intimidation, threat or force during the 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge."
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Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive
Bernstein writes: "A federal jury on Thursday found Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and five co-defendants not guilty of conspiring to prevent federal employees from doing their jobs through intimidation, threat or force during the 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge."
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North Dakota Pipeline Protesters Pushed Back From Site After 141 Arrested
Sam Levin, Nicky Woolf and Damian Carrington, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Law enforcement officials arrested 141 people in North Dakota after police surrounded protesters, deploying pepper spray and armored vehicles in order to clear hundreds of Native American activists and supporters from land owned by an oil pipeline company."
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Sam Levin, Nicky Woolf and Damian Carrington, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Law enforcement officials arrested 141 people in North Dakota after police surrounded protesters, deploying pepper spray and armored vehicles in order to clear hundreds of Native American activists and supporters from land owned by an oil pipeline company."
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Trump Campaign Boasts of 'Major Voter Suppression' Effort Targeting Women and Black People
Alice Miranda Ollstein, ThinkProgress
Ollstein writes: "With two weeks to go before Election Day and victory slipping further out of Donald Trump's reach, the hotel mogul's campaign is launching what they call a 'major voter suppression' effort aimed at driving down turnout among white progressives, young women, and African Americans."
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Alice Miranda Ollstein, ThinkProgress
Ollstein writes: "With two weeks to go before Election Day and victory slipping further out of Donald Trump's reach, the hotel mogul's campaign is launching what they call a 'major voter suppression' effort aimed at driving down turnout among white progressives, young women, and African Americans."
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David Sirota and Avi Asher-Schapiro | Teachers Unions Request Probe of Wall Street Connection to Pro-Charter School Ballot Measure
David Sirota and Avi Asher-Schapiro, International Business Times
Excerpt: "The two largest teachers unions in Massachusetts asked federal and state law enforcement officials to investigate whether large donations to a charter school ballot measure backed by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker violated anti-corruption rules."
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David Sirota and Avi Asher-Schapiro, International Business Times
Excerpt: "The two largest teachers unions in Massachusetts asked federal and state law enforcement officials to investigate whether large donations to a charter school ballot measure backed by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker violated anti-corruption rules."
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The Justice Department Closed This Troubled Private Prison. Immigration Authorities Are Reopening It.
Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post
Zapotosky writes: "When the Justice Department announced two months ago that it wanted to end the use of private prisons, Cibola County Correctional Center was exactly the kind of facility that officials desired to shut down. After a history of questionable deaths and substandard medical care, the New Mexico facility lost its contract. In recent weeks, it was emptied of inmates."
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Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post
Zapotosky writes: "When the Justice Department announced two months ago that it wanted to end the use of private prisons, Cibola County Correctional Center was exactly the kind of facility that officials desired to shut down. After a history of questionable deaths and substandard medical care, the New Mexico facility lost its contract. In recent weeks, it was emptied of inmates."
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15 Years After the US Invasion, Afghanistan Is Still the World's Leading Opium Producer
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Estimated opium production in Afghanistan has risen by 43 percent to 4,800 metric tonnes in 2016 compared with 2015 levels, according to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures released by the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)."
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Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Estimated opium production in Afghanistan has risen by 43 percent to 4,800 metric tonnes in 2016 compared with 2015 levels, according to the latest Afghanistan Opium Survey figures released by the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)."
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Fewer Polluters Criminally Prosecuted as EPA Cowers From GOP Attacks
Alleen Brown, The Intercept
Brown writes: "Fewer polluters were criminally prosecuted based on referrals from the Environmental Protection Agency this year than in any year in the past two decades, including during the George W. Bush administration."
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Alleen Brown, The Intercept
Brown writes: "Fewer polluters were criminally prosecuted based on referrals from the Environmental Protection Agency this year than in any year in the past two decades, including during the George W. Bush administration."
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