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RSN: Ronnie Dugger | Trump Is Acting Like a Dictator 
Nancy Pelosi. (photo: Stephen Crowley/NYT)
Ronnie Dugger, Reader Supported News
Dugger writes: "President Donald Trump has now unmistakably launched his all-out aggressive decision to abuse his power as president to turn, to the extent he can, the three co-equal branches of the American government, the Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court and the rest of the federal judiciary, into a dictatorship led by himself and his obeying officials."
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Adam Schiff. (photo: David Butow/Redux)
Adam Schiff. (photo: David Butow/Redux)

Even With Justin Amash's Comments, GOP Senate Isn't Willing to Remove Trump
Elham Khatami, ThinkProgress
Khatami writes: "House Intelligence chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday that even though Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash recently called for President Donald Trump's impeachment, it is unlikely that an impeachment trial will be successful in the Senate."
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (photo: Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal/AP)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (photo: Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal/AP)

Bernie Sanders Has a Plan to Fix Racial Segregation in American Schools
Molly Hensley-Clancy and Ruby Cramer, BuzzFeed News
Excerpt: "Sen. Bernie Sanders released a plan Saturday to repair the American public education system that focuses on ending school segregation and racial discrimination against students, recognizing a growing outcry over schools that have become increasingly re-segregated in the wake of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that was handed down 65 years ago Friday."
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In this Wednesday April 17, 2019 file photo, Bianca Cameron-Schwiesow, from left, Kari Crowe and Margeaux Hardline, dressed as handmaids, take part in a protest against HB314, the abortion ban bill, at the Alabama State House in Montgomery. (photo: Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser/AP)
In this Wednesday April 17, 2019 file photo, Bianca Cameron-Schwiesow, from left, Kari Crowe and Margeaux Hardline, dressed as handmaids, take part in a protest against HB314, the abortion ban bill, at the Alabama State House in Montgomery. (photo: Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser/AP)

'Women Will Die': How New Abortion Bans Will Harm the Most Vulnerable
Erin Durkin, Guardian UK
Durkin writes: "On the floor of the Alabama state senate this week, a robotic voice read nine pages of legalese that would define a new reality for women in the state: abortion would be a crime, starting from the moment a woman knows she is pregnant."
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Sybrina Fulton. (photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence)
Sybrina Fulton. (photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence)

Sybrina Fulton, Mother of Trayvon Martin, Is Running for Miami-Dade County Commission
Aliya Semper Ewing, The Root
Ewing writes: "Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen who was gunned down by racist coward George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012, is running for office in Miami-Dade county."
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Opposition has criticised Modi on his unfulfilled promise of creating 10 million new jobs every year. (photo: Deepa Kurup/Al Jazeera)
Opposition has criticised Modi on his unfulfilled promise of creating 10 million new jobs every year. (photo: Deepa Kurup/Al Jazeera)

Work Undone: How India Fails Its Young Job Seekers
Deepa Kurup, Al Jazeera
Kurup writes: "Shehla Blossom moves from one workstation to the other, collating the hourly production of branded Arabian thobes being manufactured at an export-oriented garment factory in Mandya, a small town about 100km from Bengaluru in south India."
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Belize's Barrier Reef. (photo: Chris Iovenko)
Belize's Barrier Reef. (photo: Chris Iovenko)

Reef Restored: How Belize Saved Its Beloved Coral
Chris Iovenko, Christian Science Monitor
Iovenko writes: "A choppy half-hour boat ride from the mainland lies a narrow, ribbon-like island ringed with granular coral sand beaches. In the distance, the azure sky seems to meld with the cobalt waters."
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