RSN: Robert Reich | The New Truth About Free Trade, In Stunning Admission, NFL Official Affirms Link Between Football and CTE

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Robert Reich | The New Truth About Free Trade 
 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains." 
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Apple Fight Could Escalate With Demand for 'Source Code' 
Joseph Menn, Reuters 
Menn writes: "The latest filing in the legal war between the planet's most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation could escalate even further." 
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Former Judges Challenge Official Who Said 3-Year-Olds Can Represent Selves in Immigration Court 
Jerry Markon, The Washington Post 
Markon writes: "Three former federal immigration judges are publicly challenging a senior Justice Department official who argued that 3- and 4-year-olds can learn immigration law well enough to represent themselves in court." 
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Valeant Swears Off Aggressive Drug Pricing Strategy 
Dan Gorenstein, Marketplace 
Gorenstein writes: "A handful of pharmaceutical companies have been in the crosshairs over the last six months or so, both for the price of their products and for their practices." 
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In Stunning Admission, NFL Official Affirms Link Between Football and CTE 
Des Bieler, The Washington Post 
Bieler writes: "A top official with the NFL made a stunning admission Monday, agreeing with a neuropathologist before a Congressional panel that a link exists between football-related brain injuries and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The league had never before publicly acknowledged such a connection." 
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DARK Act Vote in Senate Imminent: Will Congress Protect American's Right to Know? 
Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch 
Hauter writes: "Last night, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) filed a new version of the anti-GMO labeling bill widely known as the DARK Act, which would prevent states from requiring labeling of genetically engineered (GMO) foods and stop pending state laws that require labeling from going into effect." 
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Obama Administration Will Not Allow Oil Drilling in Atlantic Ocean 
Matthew Daly, Associated Press 
Daly writes: "In a major reversal, the Obama administration says it will not allow oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean." 
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RSN: 24 States Sue Obama Over Clean Power Plan, Is Valeant Pharmaceuticals the Next Enron?, Hillary "Wins" Benghazi Bipartisan Bad Faith Boogaloo

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William Boardman | Hillary "Wins" Benghazi Bipartisan Bad Faith Boogaloo 
 
William Boardman, Reader Supported News 
Boardman writes: "What is 'Benghazi,' Washington's long-running kabuki circus, really about? Is it about dead diplomats and CIA mercenaries? Foreign service security? Terrorist attacks and Islamaphobic movies? Emails and Sidney Blumenthal? Whether Hillary Clinton cares, or whether she spends the night alone? Does the Benghazi committee, or anyone else, really know what 'Benghazi' is about?" 
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Netanyahu Defends Surveillance Plan at Holy Site as Violence Continues 
Al Jazeera America and Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended a U.S.-brokered plan to install video surveillance at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site, saying it could help refute claims that Israel is trying to expand Jewish presence there. Palestinians, however, said they are concerned that Israel would use the cameras to spy on and arrest people." 
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Florida's New Anti-Gay, Anti-Woman Bill May Be the Most Malicious Yet 
Mark Joseph Stern, Slate 
Stern writes: "Those who seek to deprive gay people of their fundamental rights are rarely eager to enact laws respecting women's dignity and autonomy. That near-truism is playing out in Florida-where, not content to debase just gays, the legislature is now considering a bill that demeans both gays and women in creative and innovative ways." 
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Assad Ready for Presidential Election 
Alexander Winning and Tom Perry, Reuters 
Excerpt: "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's priority is to defeat 'terrorists' before holding elections but he is ready to call parliamentary and presidential polls if necessary, a Russian lawmaker who met him on Sunday said." 
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Is Valeant Pharmaceuticals the Next Enron? 
Owen Davis, International Business Times 
Davis writes: "A cloud of suspicion still hovers over Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., but the company's top executives have a chance this week to shed light on internal processes that have raised allegations of fraud." 
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There Were Fewer Black Men in Medical School in 2014 Than in 1978 
Lauren Silverman, NPR 
Silverman writes: "While more black men graduated from college over the past few decades, the number of black men applying to medical school has dropped. In 1978, 1,410 black men applied to medical school and 542 ended up enrolling. In 2014, both those numbers were down - 1,337 applied and 515 enrolled." 
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24 States Sue Obama Over Clean Power Plan 
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch 
Mellino writes: "Twenty four states and a coal company filed lawsuits yesterday over President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which was formally published Friday." 
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