Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for US Intelligence
Joseph Menn, Reuters
Menn writes: "Yahoo complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI."
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Joseph Menn, Reuters
Menn writes: "Yahoo complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI."
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RNC Declares Mike Pence Winner Hours Before Vice Presidential Debate
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone
Blistein writes: "The Republican National Committee declared Mike Pence the winner of the vice presidential debate in a post on its website that accidentally went up over an hour before the Indiana governor's showdown with Tim Kaine."
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone
Blistein writes: "The Republican National Committee declared Mike Pence the winner of the vice presidential debate in a post on its website that accidentally went up over an hour before the Indiana governor's showdown with Tim Kaine."
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Supreme Court to Address Duane Buck's 'Racially Tainted' Death Sentence
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "Lawyers acting for Buck from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Texas Defender Service will call on the nation’s highest court to reverse what they will argue was a flagrant case of racial discrimination, demanding a new and this time fair and colour-blind sentencing hearing."
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Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "Lawyers acting for Buck from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Texas Defender Service will call on the nation’s highest court to reverse what they will argue was a flagrant case of racial discrimination, demanding a new and this time fair and colour-blind sentencing hearing."
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Undocumented Immigrants Could Teach Trump a Few Things About Paying Taxes
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Hsi Lee writes: "While Trump often likes to associate the undocumented immigrant population with criminality and economic burden, they are also a group of people who have contributed billions in taxes."
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Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Hsi Lee writes: "While Trump often likes to associate the undocumented immigrant population with criminality and economic burden, they are also a group of people who have contributed billions in taxes."
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They are makers, not takers.
epublican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed a $916 million loss on his income tax returns, theNew York Times reported after receiving three pages from his filings in 1995. His tax deduction could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for about 18 years.
While Trump often likes to associate the undocumented immigrant population with criminality and economic burden, they are also a group of people who have contributed billions in taxes.
Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize Trump’s tax returns, pointing out that the people he scapegoats have contributed more in taxes than he has.
According to the fact-checking publication Politifact, the American workforce includes 3.1 million undocumented immigrants who paid and contributed about $13 billion in Social Security taxes in 2010. After taking out about $1 billion in benefits that some may have received, it still appears that the undocumented population contributed $12 billion. Similarly, a 2016 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report found that undocumented workers are a net positive to the economy, contributing roughly $11.64 billion every year, or an average eight percent of their incomes in state and local taxes.
That counters what Trump has claimed in the past. The GOP presidential candidate has cited erroneous figures that undocumented immigrants cost $113 billion in local, state, and federal taxes—a figure lifted from the Federation for American Immigration Reform website, an anti-immigrant organization founded by white nationalist John Tanton.
Chicago Teachers Prepare for Battle
Lee Sustar, Jacobin
Sustar writes: "Chicago teachers have voted overwhelmingly to strike in the face of concession demands and austerity."
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Lee Sustar, Jacobin
Sustar writes: "Chicago teachers have voted overwhelmingly to strike in the face of concession demands and austerity."
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Colombian President Declares Ceasefire With FARC Over on October 31
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, to the apparent surprise of the FARC-EP, unilaterally announced Tuesday night during a televised address that 'the ceasefire with the FARC only runs until Oct. 31.'"
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, to the apparent surprise of the FARC-EP, unilaterally announced Tuesday night during a televised address that 'the ceasefire with the FARC only runs until Oct. 31.'"
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Ethanol in US Gas Tanks Is Backfiring for Climate Change
John Upton, Climate Central
Upton writes: "It may have seemed apparent to members of Congress a decade ago that if a motorist pumped a gallon of fuel made from corn into their gas tank, a gallon of fossil fuel would be left in the ground — hopefully on a foreign shore. But real life is not so simple."
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John Upton, Climate Central
Upton writes: "It may have seemed apparent to members of Congress a decade ago that if a motorist pumped a gallon of fuel made from corn into their gas tank, a gallon of fossil fuel would be left in the ground — hopefully on a foreign shore. But real life is not so simple."
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