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Marc Ash | What's to Be Done About Trump? 

Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "The core allegations against Donald Trump, many of his closest associates, and Russian intelligence actors are light years more serious than those at the heart of the 1972 break-in at DNC headquarters in the Watergate Office Building."
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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise Shot in Alexandria, Virginia
Terence Cullen, New York Daily News
Cullen writes: "Steve Scalise, a high-ranking member of the House of Representatives, was shot at a baseball field in suburban Washington, D.C. when a gunman opened fire. Scalise, the House Majority Whip, was at the field in Alexandria, Va., with other GOP lawmakers practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game when fire broke out Wednesday morning."
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White House Staff Prevented the Firing of Mueller
Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, The New York Times
Excerpt: "People close to Mr. Trump say he is so volatile they cannot be sure that he will not change his mind about Mr. Mueller if he finds out anything to lead him to believe the investigation has been compromised."
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Holocaust Survivors Battle Trump Immigration Policies
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz
Kaplan Sommer writes: "Jewish Americans are drawing on their own survival stories to denounce measures being enacted against refugees in 'sanctuary' cities."
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US Criticized for Using Skin-Melting White Phosphorous
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The United States-led coalition in Iraq and Syria is facing heavy criticism for its use of white phosphorous, an incendiary chemical that ignites on contact with atmospheric oxygen, causing severe and mortal burns to those affected."
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Colombia: FARC Hands Over Most of Its Weapons in Peace Deal
BBC News
Colombia, FARC, weapons, United Nations, Peace Deal, Reader Supported News, RSN, politics, alternative news, news, opinion, BBC News
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A Climate Research Expedition Was Halted by ... Climate Change
Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grist
Foehringer Merchant writes: "On the first leg of a 133-day voyage through Hudson Bay, a team of Canadian scientists faced an obstacle: too much ice."
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RSN: New Map Shows Koch Brothers' Connection to Keystone XL Pipeline, Go Ahead and Call Bill O'Reilly What He Is: A Pathological Liar

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Glenn Greenwald | The "Snowden Is Ready to Come Home!" Story: A Case Study in Typical Media Deceit

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "When U.S. political and media figures say Snowden should 'man up,' come home and argue to a court that he did nothing wrong, they are deceiving the public, since they have made certain that whistleblowers charged with 'espionage' are legally barred from even raising that defense."
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The NRA's Stranglehold Threatens the Whole World
Scott Beauchamp, Al Jazeera America
Beauchamp writes: "The National Rifle Association's outsize influence on American politics, including its notorious suppression of universal background checks and further research into gun violence, is well known. But it may come as a surprise that the NRA influences U.S. foreign policy as well - specifically, the implementation of international treaties."
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Go Ahead and Call Bill O'Reilly What He Is: A Pathological Liar
Jeb Lund, Rolling Stone
Lund writes: "When NBC anchor Brian Williams was exposed for fabricating stories of journalistic heroism, poor Bill O'Reilly just couldn't help himself. There was Williams, that prick, garnering widespread acclaim for the kind of stories Bill had already been making up for years."
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Shot in the Chest, Racially Abused: Tales of Police Discrimination in Ferguson
Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Laughland writes: "Behind each of these broad observations lies human stories: anonymous black men, women and children who had their rights violated by law enforcement officials in Ferguson. Here are just five examples included in the report."
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Mexico's Murders Are Reducing Life Expectancy
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Excerpt: "The roughly 138,000 homicides reported in Mexico in the first decade of the new century have negated public health gains from disease prevention, according to compiled figures released Thursday."
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UN Envoy: Colombian Peace Process Must Tackle Sexual Violence
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Rampant sexual abuse is the product of Colombia's decades old civil war, the United Nations' top official on sexual violence said Wednesday."
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New Map Shows Koch Brothers' Connection to Keystone XL Pipeline
Stephanie Spear, EcoWatch
Spear writes: "The International Forum on Globalization released new maps yesterday of tar sands assets in Alberta, Canada. The maps clarify the connection between the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and the Koch Brothers."
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