Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | How Boycotts Could Help Sway Trump
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Washington Post
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has given some Americans new hope. Not just alt-right racists who are openly shouting 'Hail Trump' while still finding time to rack up increasing numbers of hate crimes, but also celebrity wannabes who realize that America no longer demands any significant standard of qualifications to run except a good PR rep."
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Washington Post
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has given some Americans new hope. Not just alt-right racists who are openly shouting 'Hail Trump' while still finding time to rack up increasing numbers of hate crimes, but also celebrity wannabes who realize that America no longer demands any significant standard of qualifications to run except a good PR rep."
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Single Holdout Juror May Force Mistrial in Walter Scott Murder Trial
Ginger Adams Otis, New York Daily News
Otis writes: "A lone juror nearly caused a mistrial Friday in the South Carolina murder trial of Michael Slager, a white ex-cop caught on video gunning down an unarmed black man in 2015. The jury of 11 whites and one black man went through three days of deliberations before twice declaring on Friday that they were at an impasse."
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Ginger Adams Otis, New York Daily News
Otis writes: "A lone juror nearly caused a mistrial Friday in the South Carolina murder trial of Michael Slager, a white ex-cop caught on video gunning down an unarmed black man in 2015. The jury of 11 whites and one black man went through three days of deliberations before twice declaring on Friday that they were at an impasse."
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Trump Supporters Aggressively Challenge Stein Recount Efforts in Three States
Jerry Markon and Sean Sullivan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Trump and his backers have filed challenges the past two days in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which were critical to Trump's surprise victory last month because they punctured the so-called blue wall of states expected to carry Democrat Hillary Clinton to victory."
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Jerry Markon and Sean Sullivan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Trump and his backers have filed challenges the past two days in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which were critical to Trump's surprise victory last month because they punctured the so-called blue wall of states expected to carry Democrat Hillary Clinton to victory."
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Emboldened Republicans Push State-Level Voting Restrictions
Alice Miranda Ollstein, ThinkProgress
Ollstein writes: "Only four people - out of hundreds of millions - were found to have committed voter fraud this year. Yet Republicans are now using baseless claims of widespread voter fraud to, in the words of New York Magazine, 'declare permanent open season on voting rights.'"
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Alice Miranda Ollstein, ThinkProgress
Ollstein writes: "Only four people - out of hundreds of millions - were found to have committed voter fraud this year. Yet Republicans are now using baseless claims of widespread voter fraud to, in the words of New York Magazine, 'declare permanent open season on voting rights.'"
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Justice Department to Deploy Mediators to Standing Rock to 'Maintain the Peace'
Julia Carrie Wong, Guardian UK
Wong writes: "Attorney general Loretta Lynch has weighed in on the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, calling on all sides to avoid violence and announcing that the Justice Department is deploying 'conciliators' from its community relations service to North Dakota."
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Julia Carrie Wong, Guardian UK
Wong writes: "Attorney general Loretta Lynch has weighed in on the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, calling on all sides to avoid violence and announcing that the Justice Department is deploying 'conciliators' from its community relations service to North Dakota."
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Terrorism by Religion: Muslim Terrorists in San Bernardino, Ohio Not the Norm
Jason Le Miere, International Business Times
Le Miere writes: "In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, more lethal attacks have been carried out by non-Muslim extremists than Islamic militants, according to a report from New America, a Washington Research Center."
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Jason Le Miere, International Business Times
Le Miere writes: "In the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, more lethal attacks have been carried out by non-Muslim extremists than Islamic militants, according to a report from New America, a Washington Research Center."
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How the Pesticide Industry Has Wreaked Havoc on the Developing World
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "The documentary Circle of Poison examines how pesticides proliferated after World War II, the legal loopholes which allow the manufacture of insecticides - deemed unsafe for the American people - for export to developing countries, and the devastation caused by these toxic substances."
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Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "The documentary Circle of Poison examines how pesticides proliferated after World War II, the legal loopholes which allow the manufacture of insecticides - deemed unsafe for the American people - for export to developing countries, and the devastation caused by these toxic substances."
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