Greg Palast With Dennis Bernstein | Placebo Ballots: Stealing California From Bernie Using an Old GOP Vote-Snatching Trick
Greg Palast and Dennis Bernstein, Reader Supported News
Excerpt: "Alert! California poll workers have been told to give all independent voters 'provisional' ballots if they want to vote in Democratic Party. That's illegal - and will insure that Sanders voters' ballots end up in the garbage, uncounted."
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Greg Palast and Dennis Bernstein, Reader Supported News
Excerpt: "Alert! California poll workers have been told to give all independent voters 'provisional' ballots if they want to vote in Democratic Party. That's illegal - and will insure that Sanders voters' ballots end up in the garbage, uncounted."
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Oklahoma Volunteer Deputy Sentenced to Four Years for Shooting Unarmed Black Man
Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "A former volunteer deputy sheriff in Tulsa, Oklahoma was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for shooting an unarmed suspect after he had been taken into custody. Robert Bates, now 74 years old, said he mistakenly shot and killed Eric Harris in April 2015 during an illegal gun sales sting when he mistakenly drew and fired his handgun, which he thought was his stun gun."
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Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "A former volunteer deputy sheriff in Tulsa, Oklahoma was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for shooting an unarmed suspect after he had been taken into custody. Robert Bates, now 74 years old, said he mistakenly shot and killed Eric Harris in April 2015 during an illegal gun sales sting when he mistakenly drew and fired his handgun, which he thought was his stun gun."
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Jeremy Scahill | Pentagon: Special Ops Killing of Pregnant Afghan Women Was "Appropriate" Use of Force
Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
Scahill writes: "An internal Defense Department investigation into one of the most notorious night raids conducted by special operations forces in Afghanistan - in which seven civilians were killed, including two pregnant women - determined that all the U.S. soldiers involved had followed the rules of engagement."
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Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
Scahill writes: "An internal Defense Department investigation into one of the most notorious night raids conducted by special operations forces in Afghanistan - in which seven civilians were killed, including two pregnant women - determined that all the U.S. soldiers involved had followed the rules of engagement."
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Big Trump Checks to Vets Groups Sent on Day of Media Report
Michael Biesecker, Jill Colvin and Steve Peoples, Associated Press
Excerpt: "More than a dozen big checks flowed out of New York last week, bound for veterans' charities from Donald Trump. Trump was interviewed on the same day by The Washington Post, which for weeks had been raising questions about where the promised money was, urging him to disclose recipients of the millions raised during a splashy telethon-style fundraiser he held in Iowa in January in place of a Fox debate he was boycotting."
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Michael Biesecker, Jill Colvin and Steve Peoples, Associated Press
Excerpt: "More than a dozen big checks flowed out of New York last week, bound for veterans' charities from Donald Trump. Trump was interviewed on the same day by The Washington Post, which for weeks had been raising questions about where the promised money was, urging him to disclose recipients of the millions raised during a splashy telethon-style fundraiser he held in Iowa in January in place of a Fox debate he was boycotting."
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Trains Come to a Screeching Halt as French Rail Workers Strike
teleSUR
Excerpt: "National railway workers in France began an indefinite strike Tuesday continuing their protests over a controversial labor reform law, throwing the country's transportation system into chaos only days before the Euro 2016 soccer tournament slated for June 10."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "National railway workers in France began an indefinite strike Tuesday continuing their protests over a controversial labor reform law, throwing the country's transportation system into chaos only days before the Euro 2016 soccer tournament slated for June 10."
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20,000 Children Are Trapped in Fallujah as Iraq Battles ISIS, UN Says
Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press
Salaheddin writes: "The U.N. children's fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and ISIS militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among the tens of thousands of civilians who remain trapped by the fighting for control of this city west of Baghdad."
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Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press
Salaheddin writes: "The U.N. children's fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and ISIS militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among the tens of thousands of civilians who remain trapped by the fighting for control of this city west of Baghdad."
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Stephen Hawking: One Thing Threatens Us More Than Donald Trump ... Climate Change
Sydney Robinson, The Ring of Fire
Robinson writes: "Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has often been consulted in matters unrelated to space and many consider him among the most intelligent individuals to have lived. Which is why during an interview on Tuesday, Hawking's assertion that there was something more dire facing America and the world than Donald Trump, people sat up and took notice."
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Sydney Robinson, The Ring of Fire
Robinson writes: "Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has often been consulted in matters unrelated to space and many consider him among the most intelligent individuals to have lived. Which is why during an interview on Tuesday, Hawking's assertion that there was something more dire facing America and the world than Donald Trump, people sat up and took notice."
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