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Matt Taibbi | The Great College Loan Swindle
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "On a wind-swept, frigid night in February 2009, a 37-year-old schoolteacher named Scott Nailor parked his rusted '92 Toyota Tercel in the parking lot of a Fireside Inn in Auburn, Maine. He picked this spot to have a final reckoning with himself. He was going to end his life."
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "On a wind-swept, frigid night in February 2009, a 37-year-old schoolteacher named Scott Nailor parked his rusted '92 Toyota Tercel in the parking lot of a Fireside Inn in Auburn, Maine. He picked this spot to have a final reckoning with himself. He was going to end his life."
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Carter Page Confirms He Met With Russian Government Officials While Trump's Foreign Policy Adviser
Sophie Tatum and Jim Sciutto, CNN
Excerpt: "Carter Page met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich while in Moscow in July 2016, the former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's campaign confirmed to CNN on Friday."
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Sophie Tatum and Jim Sciutto, CNN
Excerpt: "Carter Page met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich while in Moscow in July 2016, the former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's campaign confirmed to CNN on Friday."
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Judge Gives Bergdahl No Jail Time After Ruling Trump Tweets a Mitigating Factor
Rebecca Kheel, The Hill
Kheel writes: "Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will not serve any prison time for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, a military judge ruled Friday."
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Rebecca Kheel, The Hill
Kheel writes: "Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will not serve any prison time for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, a military judge ruled Friday."
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State Department Letter Could Pave Way for Deporting 300,000 Immigrants With Protected Status
Nick Miroff and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "More than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living in the United States under a form of temporary permission no longer need to be shielded from deportation, the State Department told Homeland Security officials this week, a few days ahead of a highly anticipated DHS announcement about whether to renew that protection."
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Nick Miroff and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "More than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living in the United States under a form of temporary permission no longer need to be shielded from deportation, the State Department told Homeland Security officials this week, a few days ahead of a highly anticipated DHS announcement about whether to renew that protection."
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US and UK Could Face Afghanistan War Crimes Investigation
Andrew Buncombe, The Independent
Buncombe writes: "The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is to seek approval to open a formal investigation into allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, said to have been committed by both the Taliban and US forces."
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Andrew Buncombe, The Independent
Buncombe writes: "The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is to seek approval to open a formal investigation into allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, said to have been committed by both the Taliban and US forces."
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The Honduras DEA Killings Five Years Later: Collateral Damage of the Drug War
Kaelyn Forde, NACLA
Forde writes: "When he was 14 years old, Wilmer Lucas Walter's best friend, Hasked Brooks Wood, was shot and killed right next to him. The two were traveling with 14 other people along the Patuca River to Ahuas, deep in the Honduran Moskitia, when helicopters owned by the U.S. State Department opened fire on their boat. In an instant on that night in 2012, four people were killed. Lucas and three others were shot and survived."
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Kaelyn Forde, NACLA
Forde writes: "When he was 14 years old, Wilmer Lucas Walter's best friend, Hasked Brooks Wood, was shot and killed right next to him. The two were traveling with 14 other people along the Patuca River to Ahuas, deep in the Honduran Moskitia, when helicopters owned by the U.S. State Department opened fire on their boat. In an instant on that night in 2012, four people were killed. Lucas and three others were shot and survived."
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The US Government Just Released a Report Confirming Everything We Know About Climate Change
Amelia Urry, Grist
Excerpt: "On Friday, the U.S. Global Change Research Program - supported by 13 federal agencies - officially released the fourth National Climate Assessment. Its conclusion: Humans are, without doubt, the cause of global warming."
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Amelia Urry, Grist
Excerpt: "On Friday, the U.S. Global Change Research Program - supported by 13 federal agencies - officially released the fourth National Climate Assessment. Its conclusion: Humans are, without doubt, the cause of global warming."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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