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Andy Borowitz | British Ambassador Concealed Insults From Trump by Writing Messages in English 

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "The British Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, explained on Monday that he had tried to conceal insulting remarks from Donald Trump by writing his cables in English."
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New York Clears Way for Release of Trump's State Tax Returns
Gabriella Borter, Reuters
Borter writes: "New York state on Monday cleared the way for Democrats in the U.S. Congress to obtain President Donald Trump's state tax returns, raising the possibility of fresh avenues of inquiry for lawmakers investigating his finances."
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Paul Ryan cackles with other Republicans in 2017. (photo: Getty Images)

Obamacare Faces a Death Panel on Tuesday
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "A conservative panel of an especially conservative federal appeals court will hear a case on Tuesday brought by Republican officials who seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act in its entirety."
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Overcrowding at the US border patrol station in McAllen, Texas, on 10 June. The team who visited the center in Clint found children did not have adequate access to drinking water or food. (photo: Handout/Getty Images)

Migrant Children Held in Texas Facility Need Access to Doctors, Says Attorney
Amanda Holpuch, Guardian UK
Holpuch writes: "Hundreds of children at a migrant detention center in Texas are being held in 'inhumane' conditions that amount to an 'emergency public health crisis' and should be allowed immediate access to doctors, according to an attorney who gained rare access to the facility."
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A protest about the census changes. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Trump's Racist Census Fight II: New Look, Same Bigotry
Sophie Weiner, Splinter
Weiner writes: "The dizzying and absurd saga over whether the 2020 Census will include a question about citizenship is still, somehow, ongoing."
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Two Guatemalan Campesino leaders were assassinated on Friday. (photo: @SantiagoteleSUR)

Two Guatemalan Indigenous Leaders Killed
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Guatemalan Indigenous leaders Isidro Perez and Melecio Ramirez, members of the Committee of Campesino Development (CODECA), were killed on Friday by armed men in the village of Nuevo Eden in the eastern municipality of Livingston."
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Catastrophic disasters like the pair of cyclones that devastated Mozambique earlier this year, seen here, can over shadow more commonplace, smaller-scale events, including intense heatwaves, storms and flooding. (photo: Emidio Jozine/AFP/Getty Images)

One Climate Crisis Disaster Happening Every Week, UN Warns
Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine
Solly writes: "A top United Nations official has issued a stark warning regarding climate change, pointing out that 'lower-impact' climate crisis disasters capable of causing death, displacement and suffering now occur at a rate of about one a week."
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Report: Senate Aides Knew of Second Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Claim and Tried to Rush His Confirmation

24 September 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO END THIS FUNDRAISER - We are at 17 days of fundraising for September and we barely raised $15K. In the past, we have raised nearly that much in a single day. I have to do everything in my power to end this fundraiser. We need to you to help. This is “Reader Supported News.” It’s what we do and it works. We need you to turn your attention to the September funding drive. Please. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Report: Senate Aides Knew of Second Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Claim and Tried to Rush His Confirmation  Democracy Now! Excerpt: "The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein, is calling for the immediate postponement of the nomination proceedings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a second woman has come forward alleging sexual assault by the judge." READ MORE 1st time voters register to vote. (photo: AP) National Voter Registration Day Set for Tomorrow Ken Krall, WXPR Krall writes: "The League of Women Voters of the Northwoods will be a partner hosting voter registration assistance tomorrow on National Voter Registration Day. The day was first observed in 2012. Community volunteers and organizations educate and assist voters to register on this day." READ MORE Amber Guyger. (photo: Reuters) Dallas Officer Amber Guyger Fired Over Botham Jean Shooting Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress Pyke writes: "Guyger was fired after the off-duty killing of Botham Jean." READ MORE Inez Bordeaux, who was once incarcerated in St. Louis's Medium Security Institution known as the workhouse, is an organizer fighting for the facility to be closed. (photo: Sid Hastings/Guardian UK) 'I Feel Like a Slave': St Louis' Workhouse Denounced as a Modern-Day Debtors' Prison Clark Randall and Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK Excerpt: "Inez Bordeaux was at times left broke, homeless, and living in a halfway house over the years of unpleasant interactions with the criminal justice system in St Louis, Missouri. But the only time she ever felt hopeless was during the month she was incarcerated in the city's infamous 'workhouse' jail in 2016." READ MORE A protest against Medicaid cuts. (photo: Getty Images) Medicaid Work Requirements Exist to Punish the Poor Libby Watson, Splinter News Watson writes: "There are a lot of problems you can imagine with meeting these requirements, not least finding a job or a volunteer placement in the first place, but other, much more basic problems: It seems that a lot of Medicaid recipients simply don't know about the requirements at all." READ MORE Guatemalan human rights prosecutor Jordan Rodas. (photo: AP) Guatemalan Human Rights Activist Shot to Death, 21st in 2018 Associated Press Excerpt: "Authorities in Guatemala say another indigenous rights activist has been killed in the Central American nation." READ MORE Dow Chemicals. (photo: Getty Images) Court Orders EPA to Implement Obama Chemical Plant Rule Timothy Cama, The Hill Cama writes: "A federal appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to start enforcing a chemical plant safety rule that the Trump administration tried to delay." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Marc Ash | Brennan Comes In From the Cold

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Marc Ash | Brennan Comes In From the Cold 

Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "It was interesting to see former CIA director John Brennan sitting down with Rachael Maddow, doing his best to be engaging and sincere. It's a new look for him."
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Michael Cohen exits the federal court in New York on Aug. 21. (photo: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg)

ALSO SEE: Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty, Implicates Trump
in Hush-Money Scheme to Influence Election

Cohen Lawyer Says His Client Has 'Knowledge' of Russia Campaign Conspiracy
Shannon Pettypiece, Jennifer Jacobs and Terrence Dopp, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has 'knowledge' about computer hacking and collusion that may interest Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Cohen's lawyer said."
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Mourners carry the coffin of a child at the funeral procession for those killed in an airstrike on a bus in Yemen. (photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

The US Helped Massacre Yemeni Schoolchildren
Belén Fernández, Jacobin
Fernández writes: "The slaughter of forty Yemeni schoolchildren was the direct result of US imperialism and the profit-hungry arms industry."
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LeeAnne Walters shows water samples from her Flint home. (photo: AP)

Michigan's Top Public Health Official to Stand Trial for 2 Deaths Connected With Flint Water Crisis
Amir Vera, CNN
Vera writes: "A Michigan judge issued a ruling Monday sending the criminal case of the state's Health and Human Services director to trial for the deaths of two men tied to the Flint water crisis, according to CNN affiliate WJRT-TV."
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A man looks over his shoulder at a cocktail waitress at a casino in Biloxi, Mississippi (photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The Vast Majority of Tipped Workers in America Suffer From Three Times the Poverty Rate of the Rest of US Workers
Janine Jackson, FAIR
Excerpt: "The vast majority of tipped workers in America, 70 percent in fact, are women who work at IHOP and Applebee's and Olive Garden, and earn a median wage of $9 an hour including tips, and suffer from three times the poverty rate of the rest of the US workforce."
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Funeral of Juana Raymundo, a nurse and activist murdered in Guatemala. July 30, 2018. (photo: Twitter)

Guatemalan Social Movements to Government: Stop Murdering Human Rights Defenders
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Over 40 social organizations, in a press conference Sunday, demanded the Guatemalan government to put a stop to the murder and criminalization of human rights defenders."
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The Trump administration's plan has been called 'a disaster for public health and the climate.' (photo: J David Ake/AP)

Trump Administration Scraps Obama-Era Regulation on Coal Emissions
Oliver Milman, Guardian UK
Milman writes: "The Trump administration has put forward a greenhouse gas emissions plan that could boost output from coal-fired power plants rather than push them towards closure and result in as many as 1,400 premature deaths each year."
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RSN: Masha Gessen | Trump's Opponents Aren't Arguing for "Open Borders" - but Maybe They Should

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Pollution from a factory. (photo: Reuters)

Exxon's Sitting on Key Records Subpoenaed in Climate Fraud Investigation, NY Says
David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News
Hasemyer writes: "ExxonMobil has yet to turn over key financial records subpoenaed by state investigators over a year ago in a climate fraud inquiry, New York's attorney general told a judge in new court filings."
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RSN: Robert Reich | The Trump Takeover of the Courts

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A U.S. Geological Survey geologist inspects a recent lava flow from a Kilauea volcano fissure on Hawaii's Big Island on May 19, 2018, in Kapoho, Hawaii. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty)

Trump Administration Is Suppressing Media Access of Government Scientists
Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
Lin writes: "A new directive from the Trump administration instructs federal scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey to get approval from its parent agency before agreeing to most interview requests from reporters, according to employees and emails from officials with the Department of the Interior and USGS."
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Zak Ringelstein, Democratic candidate for U.S. senator from Maine, tried to deliver toys and books children being held in detention in McAllen, Texas, on Friday before he was arrested. (photo: Zak Ringelstein)

ALSO SEE: Protesters Gather Outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's Home

Democratic Senate Candidate Arrested at Texas Detention Center While Trying to Deliver Toys and Food
Gideon Resnick, The Daily Beast
Resnick writes: "Zak Ringelstein, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, was arrested Friday morning outside a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas."
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