Donald Trump's Nazi Problem Has Gotten Out Again
Brakkton Booker, NPR News
Booker writes: "The alt-right was energized by the election of Trump and had been optimistic their controversial views, which embrace white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideas, were finding their way into mainstream politics."
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Brakkton Booker, NPR News
Booker writes: "The alt-right was energized by the election of Trump and had been optimistic their controversial views, which embrace white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideas, were finding their way into mainstream politics."
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US Court of Appeals Rules Against Standing Rock Tribe in Dakota Access Pipeline Case
Levi Rickert, Native News Online
Rickert writes: "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Sunday rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's request for an injunction to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners. The announcement was made public by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in a news release distributed within the past hour on Sunday evening."
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Levi Rickert, Native News Online
Rickert writes: "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Sunday rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's request for an injunction to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners. The announcement was made public by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in a news release distributed within the past hour on Sunday evening."
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Texas Looks Set to Follow North Carolina With Push for 'Bathroom Bill'
Tom Dart, Guardian UK
Dart writes: "The passage of a 'bathroom bill' last March sparked a maelstrom with severe political, economic and cultural consequences for North Carolina that continued through the end of 2016. Yet Texas is poised to propose a similar law in 2017."
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Tom Dart, Guardian UK
Dart writes: "The passage of a 'bathroom bill' last March sparked a maelstrom with severe political, economic and cultural consequences for North Carolina that continued through the end of 2016. Yet Texas is poised to propose a similar law in 2017."
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Vegas Prosecutors Seek Help in Identifying Convictions Won With Faulty Drug Tests
Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica and The Las Vegas Review-Journal
Gabrielson writes: "The Clark County District Attorney's Office in Nevada established a conviction review unit in October. In what appears to be one of its first efforts, the unit has been seeking information about problematic convictions resulting from one of the office's routine practices: accepting guilty pleas in drug cases that rely largely on the results of field tests done by police that can be unreliable."
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Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica and The Las Vegas Review-Journal
Gabrielson writes: "The Clark County District Attorney's Office in Nevada established a conviction review unit in October. In what appears to be one of its first efforts, the unit has been seeking information about problematic convictions resulting from one of the office's routine practices: accepting guilty pleas in drug cases that rely largely on the results of field tests done by police that can be unreliable."
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Senator Warren Seeks to Pull Pot Shops Out of Banking Limbo
Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press
LeBlanc writes: "U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, is leading an effort to make sure vendors working with legal marijuana businesses, from chemists who test marijuana for harmful substances to firms that provide security, don't have their banking services taken away."
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Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press
LeBlanc writes: "U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, is leading an effort to make sure vendors working with legal marijuana businesses, from chemists who test marijuana for harmful substances to firms that provide security, don't have their banking services taken away."
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Turkey Nightclub Attack: IS Says It Carried Out Shooting
BBC News
Excerpt: "The so-called Islamic State says it was behind the new year attack on a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people."
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BBC News
Excerpt: "The so-called Islamic State says it was behind the new year attack on a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people."
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Next Frontier in Recycling: Food
Lonnie Shekhtman, The Christian Science Monitor
Shekhtman writes: "Cities including San Francisco, where composting food waste has been mandatory since 2009; New York City; Austin, Texas; Cambridge, Mass.; and Milwaukee are piloting residential food composting programs. In all, more than 180 communities now collect residential food scraps up from only a handful a decade ago, according to a 2014 report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance."
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Lonnie Shekhtman, The Christian Science Monitor
Shekhtman writes: "Cities including San Francisco, where composting food waste has been mandatory since 2009; New York City; Austin, Texas; Cambridge, Mass.; and Milwaukee are piloting residential food composting programs. In all, more than 180 communities now collect residential food scraps up from only a handful a decade ago, according to a 2014 report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance."
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