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Charles Pierce | Nancy Pelosi Just Mocked the President* to His Face in the Oval Office
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "On Tuesday, right about at lunchtime, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer dropped down the street to the White House to have a chat with the president*. What followed was a piece of video that will live forever as a window into this sludgepot of a political moment."
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David J. Pecker, chairman and CEO of American Media, publisher of National Enquirer and others, at the company's headquarters in lower Manhattan in June 2017. (photo: Mark Peterson/Redux)
Publisher of National Enquirer Admits Paying Hush Money to Help Trump Ahead of 2016 Election
Tom Winter and David K. Li, NBC News
Excerpt: "The company that publishes the National Enquirer admitted that it paid $150,000 in hush money to silence alleged mistresses of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election, prosecutors said Wednesday."
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Tom Winter and David K. Li, NBC News
Excerpt: "The company that publishes the National Enquirer admitted that it paid $150,000 in hush money to silence alleged mistresses of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election, prosecutors said Wednesday."
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Thom Krystofiak, left, Inga Frick and Jonas Magram, climate change campaigners from Fairfield, Iowa, who were arrested at a protest in Whiting, Indiana, on 15 May 2016. (photo: Thom Krystofiak)
Revealed: FBI Kept Files on Peaceful Climate Change Protesters
Adam Federman, Guardian UK
Federman writes: "On 15 May 2016 three friends from Fairfield, Iowa, made the five-hour drive to an oil refinery on the shores of Lake Michigan to participate in what was part of a series of protests and acts of civil disobedience in the fight against climate change."
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Adam Federman, Guardian UK
Federman writes: "On 15 May 2016 three friends from Fairfield, Iowa, made the five-hour drive to an oil refinery on the shores of Lake Michigan to participate in what was part of a series of protests and acts of civil disobedience in the fight against climate change."
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A federal judge in Arizona on Tuesday stripped prominent immigration and reproductive-rights activist Alejandra Pablos of her green card and ordered her deportation nearly a year after she was arrested outside a protest in Virginia. (photo: National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health)
Immigration Judge Revokes Green Card, Orders Deportation of Virginia Activist Alejandra Pablos
Marissa J. Lang, The Washington Post
Lang writes: "An immigration judge in Arizona on Tuesday stripped prominent immigration and reproductive-rights activist Alejandra Pablos of her green card and ordered her deportation nearly a year after she was arrested outside a protest in Virginia."
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Marissa J. Lang, The Washington Post
Lang writes: "An immigration judge in Arizona on Tuesday stripped prominent immigration and reproductive-rights activist Alejandra Pablos of her green card and ordered her deportation nearly a year after she was arrested outside a protest in Virginia."
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State Medical executive Dr. Eden Wells is arraigned on charges stemming form the Flint water crisis. (photo: WDIV News)
Michigan Public Health Official Implicated in Flint Water Controversy Given Cushy New Government Job
Jason Linkins, ThinkProgress
Linkins writes: "A Michigan public health official currently facing charges of involuntary manslaughter stemming from her role in an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease during the Flint water crisis has managed to secure a cushy new job with the state, according to several reports."
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Jason Linkins, ThinkProgress
Linkins writes: "A Michigan public health official currently facing charges of involuntary manslaughter stemming from her role in an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease during the Flint water crisis has managed to secure a cushy new job with the state, according to several reports."
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Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi. (photo: AFP)
Why Do We Revere Malala but Not Ahed Tamimi?
Sarah Kastner, The Conversation
Kastner writes: "After Israeli forces shot her 15-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet last December, Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian girl from Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, stood up to the occupying Israeli forces and was arrested and charged for slapping a soldier. The story of the activist went viral."
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Sarah Kastner, The Conversation
Kastner writes: "After Israeli forces shot her 15-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet last December, Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian girl from Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, stood up to the occupying Israeli forces and was arrested and charged for slapping a soldier. The story of the activist went viral."
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Arches National Park. (photo: National Geographic)
Trump Auctions Off 150,000 Acres of Public Lands for Fracking Near Utah National Parks
Center for Biological Diversity
Excerpt: "On Tuesday the Trump administration offered more than 150,000 acres of public lands for fossil-fuel extraction near some of Utah's most iconic landscapes, including Arches and Canyonlands national parks."
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Center for Biological Diversity
Excerpt: "On Tuesday the Trump administration offered more than 150,000 acres of public lands for fossil-fuel extraction near some of Utah's most iconic landscapes, including Arches and Canyonlands national parks."
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