RSN: Why Are We Still Asking if a Dying Woman Should Be Able to Get an Abortion to Save Her Life?, Sheldon Adelson Faces New Scrutiny as Documents Challenge His Testimony, America's Richest Congressman, Worth Almost $500 Million, Says Poor Americans Are Doing Great,

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David Swanson | Kathy Kelly Freed, Convictions of Oak Ridge 3 Overturned

David Swanson, David Swanson's blog
Swanson writes: "Kathy Kelly is just out of prison, where she'd been sent for nonviolently opposing drone murders."
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America's Richest Congressman, Worth Almost $500 Million, Says Poor Americans Are Doing Great
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "Congressman Darrell Issa, America's richest Congressman with a net worth of nearly $500 million, says the nation's poor are actually doing very well. Issa told CNN that 'our poor are ... the envy of the world.'"
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Sheldon Adelson Faces New Scrutiny as Documents Challenge His Testimony
Chris McGreal and Matt Isaacs, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Sheldon Adelson, the multibillionaire casino magnate and key Republican party donor, spent four combative days in a Las Vegas court this week defending his gambling empire from accusations of bribery and ties to organised crime."
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World Health Organization Declares Liberia Ebola-Free
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Liberia is now free of Ebola after going 42 days - twice the maximum incubation period for the deadly disease - without any new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Saturday. The virus killed more than 4,700 people in the West African nation during a year-long epidemic."
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Dems Demand Apology From CIA for Spying on Congress
Julian Hattem, The Hill
Hattem writes: "A trio of Senate Democrats is putting new pressure on CIA Director John Brennan to offer a full-throated apology for the agency's searches through congressional records."
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Why Are We Still Asking if a Dying Woman Should Be Able to Get an Abortion to Save Her Life?
Jennifer Dalven, ACLU Blog
Dalven writes: "A recent analysis of abortion attitudes by The New York Times came to the right conclusion: The divide on how Americans feel about abortion is much smaller than partisan politics would have us believe."
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Bernie Sanders Could Be the Greenest Presidential Candidate Ever
Ben Adler, Guardian UK
Adler writes: "The Democratic presidential primary race got its second major candidate last week, and its first true climate hawk: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, self-described democratic socialist."
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RSN: Bernie Sanders: 'If I Run, I Will Run to Win', Why America's Banks Are Still Above the Law

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Bernie Sanders: 'If I Run, I Will Run to Win'

Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
Stableford reports: "Fresh off his 2016 fact-finding trip to Iowa, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says if he runs for president, it will be for one reason."
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Dan Froomkin | After Lying and Apologizing, Brennan Qualifies Both
Dan Froomkin, The Intercept
Froomkin reports: "CIA Director John Brennan today petulantly denied that he lied in March when he publicly insisted that the CIA had not improperly accessed the computers of Senate staffers investigating the agency's role in torturing detainees."
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Occupy Offshoot Cancels $4 Million in Predatory Student Loans - and Starts a Debtors Union
Liz Pleasant, Christa Hillstrom and James Trimarco, YES! Magazine
Excerpt: "That's why Strike Debt, an organization that emerged out of Occupy Wall Street to protect debtors' rights, announced today it has purchased - and abolished - more than $4 million in student debt."
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Murder in the Mediterranean
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "Refugees fleeing wars and conflict in Syria, Gaza and Africa know the journey in smugglers' boats across the Mediterranean is fraught with perils. Add now the risk of mass murder by their traffickers."
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France Launches First Round of Airstrikes Against ISIS
BBC News
Excerpt: "A statement said planes had attacked an IS depot in north-east Iraq, and there would be more raids in the coming days."
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David Sirota | Why America's Banks Are Still Above the Law
David Sirota, Salon
Sirota writes: "A few months ago, in a press conference about the felony conviction of Credit Suisse, Attorney General Eric Holder said, 'This case shows that no financial institution, no matter its size or global reach, is above the law.'"
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Japan to File New Research Whaling Plan 'This Year'
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "Japan said Wednesday it would file a plan by the end of the year for the resumption of its controversial Antarctic whaling programme, ruled invalid by the UN's highest court in March."
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RSN: Calls for Brennan's Ouster as Senate Spying Details Emerge

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FOCUS: Dan Froomkin | Calls for Brennan's Ouster as Senate Spying Details Emerge

Dan Froomkin, The Intercept
Froomkin reports: "CIA Director John Brennan's decision to search Senate committee computers was such a blatant violation of the constitutional separation of powers that some pro-accountability groups in Washington are starting to seek his ouster."
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