RSN: Halliburton to Pay $1.1B for Destroying Deepwater Horizon Evidence, How America Made ISIS

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Andy Borowitz | Furious Obama Says Calls to Putin Going Straight to Voice Mail

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In what he called 'a provocative and defiant act,' President Obama charged on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has started letting his calls go directly to voice mail."
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Pro-Russian Rebels Lower Demands in Peace Talks
Al Jazeera America and Associated Press
Excerpt: "Pro-Russian rebels have reportedly softened their demand for full independence, saying they would respect Ukraine's sovereignty in exchange for autonomy."
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Halliburton to Pay $1.1B for Destroying Deepwater Horizon Evidence
Kevin McCoy and Rick Jervis, USA Today
McCoy writes: "The settlement comes just over a year after Houston-based Halliburton admitted destroying evidence and agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge for its role in the oil spill disaster that occurred at a BP (BP) offshore well."
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Wall Street Favorite Eric Cantor Lands $3.4 Million Investment Banking Job
Taylor Wofford, Newsweek
Wofford writes: "Eric Cantor plans to join investment bank Moelis and Co. as vice chairman and managing director, where he will earn a salary of $3.4 million, the company announced in an SEC filing this morning. Cantor will also join the bank's board."
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Tom Engelhardt | How America Made ISIS
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Whatever your politics, you're not likely to feel great about America right now. After all, there's Ferguson (the whole world was watching!), an increasingly unpopular president, a Congress whose approval ratings make the president look like a rock star, rising poverty, weakening wages, and a growing inequality gap just to start what could be a long list."
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Why Is Homeland Security So Busy Arming Cops to Fight Americans?
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "For three weeks and counting, America has raged against the appalling behavior of the local police in Ferguson, Missouri, and for good reason: automatic rifles pointed at protesters, tank-like armored trucks blocking marches, the teargassing and arresting of reporters, tactics unfit even for war zones - it was all enough to make you wonder whether this was America at all."
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Australia Abandons Plans to Dump Waste Into Great Barrier Reef
Joanna Heath, The Australian Financial Review
Heath writes: "Plans to dump 3 million cubic metres of material dredged from the ocean floor into the Great Barrier Reef area will be abandoned under changes to already approved plans to expand the Abbot Point coal terminal in Queensland."
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RSN: Deutsche Bank Rules Out Funding for Controversial Coal Project in Great Barrier Reef, Florida Prison Accused of Boiling Mentally-Ill Inmate Alive, Security Cameras "Malfunctioned" During Incident, et al

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Andy Borowitz | An Apology From Prince Charles

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In response to the international uproar created when he reportedly compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler, His Royal Highness Prince Charles today issued the following letter of apology to the Russian people."
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"Worse Than Reagan": Meet the Violent Chauvinist Now Leading India, Narendra Modi
Elias Isquith, Salon
Excerpt: "The result was a clear and potentially epochal victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the country's leading right-wing party, and its leader, the pugnacious, nationalistic and neoliberal Narendra Modi."
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Scott Walker, Opponent Mary Burke Tied in Latest Poll
Ruth Conniff, The Progressive
Conniff reports: "Possible reasons for the change in public opinion include Wisconsin's lackluster economic performance."
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Florida Prison Accused of Boiling Mentally-Ill Inmate Alive, Security Cameras "Malfunctioned" During Incident
Ashley Lopez, Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Lopez reports: "According to the Herald, three former employees of the psychiatric unit at Dade Correctional Institution have alleged that staff at the facility were tormenting and abusing mentally-ill inmates for years."
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Deutsche Bank Rules Out Funding for Controversial Coal Project in Great Barrier Reef
Jake Sturmer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sturmer reports: "One of the world's leading investment banks is refusing to consider funding the expansion of a Queensland coal terminal which would become the world's largest coal port."
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Ecuador Issues Drilling Permits for Untouched Corner of the Amazon
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "An untouched corner of the Amazon, one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth, is officially open for exploitation."
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