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Ronan Farrow | The Black Cube Chronicles: The Undercover Operative
Black Cube is a private intelligence firm with ties to the Israeli government. (photo: Soumil Kumar/Unsplash)
Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker
Farrow writes: "In October of 2016, a writer named Ben Wallace got a call from a number that he didn't recognize, with a U.K. country code. Wallace had spent the preceding weeks pursuing leads, for New York magazine, about rumors of sexual harassment and assault that were swirling around the movie producer Harvey Weinstein."
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Protests in front of the White House in 1974. (photo: Getty)
Protests in front of the White House in 1974. (photo: Getty)


17 Former Watergate Special Prosecutors | We Investigated the Watergate Scandal. We Believe Trump Should Be Impeached.
Former Watergate Special Prosecutors, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "We, former members of the Watergate special prosecutor force, believe there exists compelling prima facie evidence that President Trump has committed impeachable offenses. This evidence can be accepted as sufficient for impeachment, unless disproved by any contrary evidence that the president may choose to offer."
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Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. (photo: Getty)
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. (photo: Getty)

Lindsey Graham Dishes on Trump in Hoax Calls With Russians
Natasha Bertrand, Politico
Bertrand writes: "Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has in the last year become something of a congressional point man for President Donald Trump's negotiations with Turkey, leading discussions on everything from Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system over the summer to their more recent incursion into northern Syria."
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. (photo: Getty)
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. (photo: Getty)

Lock Her Up! Betsy DeVos Could Face Jail for Failing to Forgive Student Loan Debt
Monique Judge, The Root
Judge writes: "How corrupt is the Trump administration, you ask? So corrupt that the Department of Education, under the leadership of Trump appointee Betsy DeVos, has still been hounding former students of Corinthian Colleges Inc. to pay their student loan debts."
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A pedestrian walking past the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
A pedestrian walking past the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

A Declassified Court Ruling Shows How the FBI Abused NSA Mass Surveillance Data
Trevor Aaronson, The Intercept
Aaronson writes: "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found that the FBI may have violated the rights of potentially millions of Americans - including its own agents and informants - by improperly searching through information obtained by the National Security Agency's mass surveillance program."
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American military personnel in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, last month. (photo: Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
American military personnel in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, last month. (photo: Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)

US Drug Lab Strikes in Afghanistan Killed at Least 30 Civilians, Says UN
BBC
Excerpt: "A UN delegation that visited the site of the attacks and conducted face-to-face interviews with residents concluded that there were 39 verified casualties - including 14 children - of whom 30 died."
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If the world experiences 3C warming, the Baltimore oriole is predicted to lose 57% of its wintering habitat range, while also facing threats from fire weather, spring heat, heavy rain and urbanization. (photo: Kyle Horton)
If the world experiences 3C warming, the Baltimore oriole is predicted to lose 57% of its wintering habitat range, while also facing threats from fire weather, spring heat, heavy rain and urbanization. (photo: Kyle Horton)

Two-Thirds of Bird Species in North America Could Vanish in Climate Crisis
Emily Holden, Guardian UK
Holden writes: "Two-thirds of bird species in North America are at risk of extinction because of the climate crisis, according to a new report from researchers at the Audubon Society, a leading US conservation group."
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