RSN: Canada Denied Asylum for Drowned Syrian Boys Aylan and Galib Kurdi, Science-Based Solutions Reject Boyan Slat's Approach to Rid the Ocean of Plastic, Guatemalan President Resigns After Arrest Warrant Issued

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Andy Borowitz | Party That Mocked President's Lack of Experience Favors One With No Experience Whatsoever 
 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Republicans, who mercilessly mocked Barack Obama's lack of government experience before he became President, now favor Presidential candidates with no experience whatsoever, the head of the Republican National Committee has confirmed." 
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Guatemalan President Resigns After Arrest Warrant Issued 
Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Guatemala's President Otto Pérez Molina has resigned days before an election, after the attorney general obtained a warrant for his arrest amid a corruption scandal." 
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Canada Denied Asylum for Drowned Syrian Boys Aylan and Galib Kurdi 
Terry Glavin, Ottawa Citizen 
Glavin writes: "The two small boys whose bodies washed up on a Turkish beach Wednesday were Kurdish refugees from Kobane, Syria, whose family had been desperately trying to emigrate to Canada." 
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Did 'Ferguson Effect' Cause Murder Wave? No. Is There a Murder Wave? Unclear 
Jim Naureckas, FAIR 
Naureckas writes: "There's a more fundamental problem with the Times story than suggesting that criticizing police violence is (maybe) responsible for a rise in homicides: It's not clear that the rise in homicides that the story is pegged to actually exists as a nationwide phenomenon." 
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Plan Targets Health Care Bias Against Transgender People 
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press 
Alonso-Zaldivar writes: "The Obama administration proposed Thursday to ban discrimination against transgender people throughout the health care system, carrying out anti-bias provisions in the president's health overhaul." 
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Sandra Bland Activists Maintain Jail Vigil Despite Dimming Media Spotlight 
Tom Dart, Guardian UK 
Dart writes: "Bonner said she has made the journey from Houston on all but four or five days since activists started showing up at the jail 50 days ago, emphasising that she is not a protester but part of a 'peaceful prayer vigil here to honour Sandra Bland's life and to ask the questions in person that her family and friends are asking.'" 
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Science-Based Solutions Reject Boyan Slat's Approach to Rid the Ocean of Plastic 
Marcus Eriksen, EcoWatch 
Eriksen writes: "There are no islands of plastic, rather a smog of plastic that pervades the oceans. The last four years have produced more research publications on plastic marine pollution than the previous four decades. We understand the problem differently." 
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RSN: Enough. It's Time for a Boycott of Israel

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Naomi Klein | Enough. It's Time for a Boycott of Israel

Naomi Klein, Guardian UK
"Every day that Israel pounds Gaza brings more converts to the BDS cause - even among Israeli Jews. In the midst of the assault roughly 500 Israelis, dozens of them well-known artists and scholars, sent a letter to foreign ambassadors in Israel."
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Officer in Fatal NY Arrest Stripped of Gun, Badge
Verena Dobnik and Jake Pearson, Associated Press
Excerpt: "A New York City police officer involved in the arrest of a man who died in custody after being placed in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty, police said Saturday."
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Largest US Sentence Reduction in History Approved for Drug Offenders
Evan Hill, Al Jazeera America
Hill writes: "The federal agency that sets criminal sentencing policies for judges voted on Friday to allow tens of thousands of inmates serving time for drug crimes to apply for reduced sentences, the largest such sentencing reduction in modern U.S. history."
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Federal Court: No Execution Unless Arizona Reveals Drug Source
Michael Kiefer, Arizona Republic
Kiefer writes: "The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Saturday that Arizona must divulge information about the drugs and executioners it will use to put a man to death Wednesday or the execution will not go forward."
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Bolivia Legalizes Child Labor for Kids From Age 10
Associated Press
Excerpt: "While most of the world is trying to diminish child labor, Bolivia has become the first nation to legalize it from age 10. Congress approved the legislation early this month, and Vice President Alvaro Garcia signed it into law Thursday in the absence of President Evo Morales, who was traveling."
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Deploying Drones to Get an Overview of Factory Farms
Peggy Lowe, National Public Radio
Lowe writes: "An independent journalist says he's found a way around the so-called 'ag-gag' laws by flying drones over large livestock operations to document animal welfare problems and pollution."
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Plastic 'Trash Islands' Forming in Ocean Garbage Patch
Tia Ghose, Yahoo News
Ghose writes: "After returning from the Transpacific Yacht Race — an annual sailboat race from Los Angeles to Honolulu — in 1997, Capt. Charles Moore was guiding his boat through the doldrums when he noticed some plastic debris floating in the water."
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