FOCUS: Amy Davidson | The Snowden Pulitzer
Amy Davidson, New Yorker
Davidson writes: "It would have been a scandal, this year, if there had been no Pulitzer related to the documents that Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, leaked to several reporters. This was a defining case of the press doing what it is supposed to do."
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Andy Borowitz
| Zuckerberg Vows Facebook Will Shoot Down Google Drones
Andy Borowitz, New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "One day after Google outbid Facebook for a manufacturer of solar-powered drones, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg served warning that his company was prepared to blow Google's drones out of the skies."
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Andy Borowitz, New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "One day after Google outbid Facebook for a manufacturer of solar-powered drones, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg served warning that his company was prepared to blow Google's drones out of the skies."
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Abu Ghraib
Closes, Bitter Memories of Torture Remain
Jamie Tarabay, Al Jazeera America
Tarabay writes: "The prison at Abu Ghraib was notorious for its treatment of those confined within its walls long before U.S. Army Private Lynndie England dragged a naked Iraqi prisoner around on a dog leash."
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Jamie Tarabay, Al Jazeera America
Tarabay writes: "The prison at Abu Ghraib was notorious for its treatment of those confined within its walls long before U.S. Army Private Lynndie England dragged a naked Iraqi prisoner around on a dog leash."
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Bloomberg
Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the NRA
Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times
Peters writes: "Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to support their agenda - even Democrats."
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Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times
Peters writes: "Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to support their agenda - even Democrats."
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Pennsylvania's
Natural Gas Wells Are Leaking Up to 1,000 Times More Methane Than EPA
Estimates
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "Fracking sites at Pennsylvania's natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale are releasing way more methane than we thought - somewhere on the order of 100 to 1,000 times EPA estimates, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences."
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Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "Fracking sites at Pennsylvania's natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale are releasing way more methane than we thought - somewhere on the order of 100 to 1,000 times EPA estimates, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences."
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Police Body
Cameras Didn't Provide Accountability in New Mexico
Gwyneth Doland, Al Jazeera America
Doland writes: "It was one officer's helmet camera recording of the four-hour standoff's denouement - Boyd agreeing to leave with the officers and collecting his belongings, then being shot as police suddenly launched an offensive - that quickly brought the city's simmering anxiety to a rolling boil of protests and demands for change."
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Gwyneth Doland, Al Jazeera America
Doland writes: "It was one officer's helmet camera recording of the four-hour standoff's denouement - Boyd agreeing to leave with the officers and collecting his belongings, then being shot as police suddenly launched an offensive - that quickly brought the city's simmering anxiety to a rolling boil of protests and demands for change."
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Veterans and
White Supremacy
Kathleen Belew, The New York Times
Belew writes: "When Frazier Glenn Miller shot and killed three people in Overland Park, Kan., on Sunday, he did so as a soldier of the white power movement: a groundswell that united Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other fringe elements after the Vietnam War, crested with the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, and remains a diminished but potent threat today."
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Kathleen Belew, The New York Times
Belew writes: "When Frazier Glenn Miller shot and killed three people in Overland Park, Kan., on Sunday, he did so as a soldier of the white power movement: a groundswell that united Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other fringe elements after the Vietnam War, crested with the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, and remains a diminished but potent threat today."
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Report:
Hundreds Killed While Defending Environment, Land Rights
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "Hundreds of people have been killed while defending the environment and land rights around the world, international monitors said in a report released Tuesday, highlighting what they called a culture of impunity surrounding the deaths."
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Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "Hundreds of people have been killed while defending the environment and land rights around the world, international monitors said in a report released Tuesday, highlighting what they called a culture of impunity surrounding the deaths."
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