Saturday, April 22, 2017

RSN: Dan Rather | Trump's Worst Week Yet



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Dan Rather | Trump's Worst Week Yet 
Dan Rather in his office in Manhattan in 2009. (photo: Jennifer S. Altman/The New York Times) 
Dan Rather, Dan Rather's Facebook Page 
Rather writes: "As far as I am concerned, this week brought perhaps the most dangerous and destabilizing events in the presidency of Donald Trump, and it has been almost completely overshadowed by a cavalcade of news such as elections in Georgia and the Bill O'Reilly story." 
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Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to Testify on Russian Interference in US Election 
Katie Bo Williams, The Hill 
Williams writes: "The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday asked several senior Obama administration officials, including former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, to testify publicly in the panel's probe into Russian interference in the U.S. election." 
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Why Scientists Are Marching on Washington and More Than 400 Other Cities 
Joel Achenbach, Ben Guarino and Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "The March for Science is not a partisan event. But it's political. That's the recurring message of the organizers, who insist that this is a line the scientific community and its supporters will be able to walk. It may prove too delicate a distinction, though, when people show up in droves on Saturday with their signs and their passions." 
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Damien Echols | When the State Gets It Wrong, Innocent People Die - I Was Almost One of Them 
Damien Echols, Medium 
Echols writes: "While several judges have stayed the executions for now, the mindset behind these rapid fire executions should scare all Americans. But perhaps one of the scariest parts, for me, is knowing I could have been the ninth man on the state's death list." 
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Sessions Won't Rule Out Prosecuting Media Outlets Besides WikiLeaks 
Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress 
Rupar writes: "Amid a swirl of reports that U.S. authorities 'have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,' Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn't ruling out the possibility that cracking down on WikiLeaks could lead to other media outlets being prosecuted for covering leaks." 
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According to the Government, People Under Arrest Have More Rights Than Travelers at the Border 
Ron Wyden, ACLU 
Wyden writes: "These searches are based on outdated legal interpretations created before most Americans were carrying around phones that hold nearly every detail of our lives." 
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BP Oil Spill Damage to Natural Resources Valued at $17.2 Billion, Scientists Find 
Denisse Moreno, International Business Times 
Moreno writes: "The April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to natural resources, a study published in the journal Science said." 
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