Garrison Keillor | The Old Man Manages a Manhattan Lenten Meditation

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06 April 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News LOOK AT WHAT RSN GIVES BACK - Look at the benefits of “Reader Supported News.” Somebody can report honestly, why? Because the people we are reporting to pay for the reports. That folks, is why you come here. The donation situation is really bad. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Garrison Keillor | The Old Man Manages a Manhattan Lenten Meditation  Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website Keillor writes: "In church on Sunday, we sang a hymn unfamiliar to me in which we asked the Lord to deliver us from 'love of pleasure,' which, as I sang it, I realized I have no intention of giving up." READ MORE Ilhan Omar. (photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA) Trump Supporter Arrested After Threatening to Kill Representative Ilhan Omar Associated Press Excerpt: "A western New York man has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota." READ MORE Jared Kushner and Donald Trump. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP) Ex-White House Staffers Say Trump's Decision to Overrule Security Clearance Denials Is Unprecedented Zack Ford and Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress  Excerpt: "Former White House staffers are warning that the Trump administration's unprecedented move to overturn at least 25 security clearance denials could open it up to significant security vulnerabilities." READ MORE Whistleblower Chelsea Manning. (photo: AP) Chelsea Manning Released From Solitary Confinement teleSUR Excerpt: "After 28 days of incarceration, United States Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been released from solitary confinement and moved into the general population unit of the Truesdale Detention Center in Northern Virginia." READ MORE An immigrant detention center. (photo: MN) Fourth Person in Six Months Dies in ICE Immigration Detention Center Rebekah L. Sanders, Arizona Republic Sanders writes: "A 54-year-old Mexican man held in a detention center by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement died Wednesday after showing signs of the flu, the federal agency said." READ MORE Jacinda Ardern. (photo: Getty Images) Jacinda Ardern on Response to New Zealand Terror Attack: 'Very Little of What I Have Done Has Been Deliberate. It's Intuitive' Toby Manhire, Guardian UK Manhire writes: "When Trump Called Jacinda Ardern up following the attack to offer his condolences, he asked what he could do to help. Ardern's suggestion was that he could provide 'sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.'" READ MORE Dr. Shawn Lockhart, a fungal disease expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holding a microscope slide with inactive Candida auris collected from an American patient. (photo: Melissa  A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times Excerpt: "Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ as deadly as it was mysterious. Doctors swiftly isolated him in the intensive care unit." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation