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NPR Teaches Listeners About the Proper Care and Feeding of White Nationalists




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NPR Teaches Listeners About the Proper Care and Feeding of White Nationalists 
Jason Kessler in Charlottesville on Feb. 27. (photo: Zack Wajsgras/The Daily Progress/AP)
Karen Attiah, The Washington Post
Attiah writes: "Ahead of the one-year anniversary of Charlottesville, NPR decided to give an on-air lesson on the proper care and feeding of white nationalists and neo-Nazi ideology."
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Protesters march at the University of Virginia, ahead of the one year anniversary of the 2017 Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' protests, in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 11, 2018. (photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Protesters march at the University of Virginia, ahead of the one year anniversary of the 2017 Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' protests, in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 11, 2018. (photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Hundreds of Anti-Racists Take to Charlottesville Streets a Year After Far-Right Rally
Joseph Ax, Reuters
Excerpt: "Hundreds of students and left-wing activists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, as a rally to mark the anniversary of last year's white nationalist gathering turned largely into an anti-police protest."
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Central American family at the border. (photo: Getty Images)
Central American family at the border. (photo: Getty Images)

ACLU Claims ICE Withheld Deported Parents' Contact Info From Lawyers
Justin Wise, The Hill
Wise writes: "The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is claiming that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for more than a month purposefully withheld hundreds of migrant parents' contact information from their lawyers."
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NBA star Steph Curry helped raise more than $21,000 for the family of Nia. (photo: Yahoo News)
NBA star Steph Curry helped raise more than $21,000 for the family of Nia. (photo: Yahoo News)

Steph Curry Helps Raise More Than $21,000 for Nia Wilson's Family
Jenna Amatulli, Huffington Post
Amatulli writes: "NBA star Steph Curry helped raise more than $21,000 for the family of Nia Wilson, the 18-year-old woman who was killed on an Oakland train platform last month in an attack that shocked the country."
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Palestinians receive aid at a United Nations food distribution center in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip this week. (photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinians receive aid at a United Nations food distribution center in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip this week. (photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump May Cut Suspended Aid to Palestinians Soon
Daniel Estrin, NPR
Estrin writes: "The Trump administration could be on the verge of cutting millions of dollars of aid to the Palestinians, funds that could be critical at a time when there's a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip."
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A bed net treated with pyrethroid insecticide and pyriproxyfen, an insect growth regulator, is seen hanging up in a living space in Burkina Faso. (photo: Steve Lindsay/Durham University)
A bed net treated with pyrethroid insecticide and pyriproxyfen, an insect growth regulator, is seen hanging up in a living space in Burkina Faso. (photo: Steve Lindsay/Durham University)


EXCERPT: 
During the study, conventional bed nets in 91 villages in rural Burkina Faso were replaced with combination nets containing a pyrethroid insecticide and insect growth regulator, pyriproxyfen, which shortens the lives of mosquitoes and reduces their ability to reproduce.

Hodal writes: "A bed net designed to kill insecticide-resistant mosquitoes could prevent millions of cases of malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, scientists have found."
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Tom Perez. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Tom Perez. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DNC Chair Tom Perez Introduces Resolution Reversing Party's New Ban on Fossil Fuel Donations
Addy Baird, ThinkProgress
Baird writes: "Just two months after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) unanimously voted to ban donations from fossil fuel companies, DNC chair Tom Perez has introduced a resolution that would essentially reverse the ban."
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