RSN: Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Admits Secret Investigation Into Judge's Wife, Fossil Fuel Drilling Triggered Earthquakes in Eight States

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Glenn Greenwald | What Explains the Power of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Middle Finger?

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The penalty phase of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial began Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Boston."
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White House Admits: We Didn't Know Who Drone Strike Was Aiming to Kill
Spencer Ackerman, Sabrina Siddiqui and Paul Lewis, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Broad target of 'al-Qaida compounds' suggests 2013 policy change by Obama - requiring 'near certainty' that suspect is present - has not been implemented."
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Petraeus Gets Two Years Probation
Bill Chappell, NPR
Chappell writes: "Former CIA Director and retired Gen. David Petraeus was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation and handed a $100,000 fine for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified material, in the form of notebooks he shared with his lover."
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Lynch Wants to Be Nicer to Police Than Holder
Matt Apuzzo and Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Loretta E. Lynch, who was confirmed Thursday as attorney general, will meet with local police officers nationwide this summer as she tries to strike a new tone for the Justice Department amid a roiling controversy over the use of lethal force, aides said."
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Comcast to Drop Time-Warner Merger Bid
Liana B. Baker, Alina Selyukh and Diane Bartz, Reuters
Excerpt: "Comcast Corp's CMSA.O board was meeting late on Thursday to finalise plans to abandon its proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC.N), according to a person directly familiar with the matter."
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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Admits Secret Investigation Into Judge's Wife
Jacques Billeaud and Ryan Van Velzer, Associated Press
Excerpt: "In a bombshell revelation, Sheriff Joe Arpaio acknowledged Thursday that his office was behind a secret investigation into the wife of the judge presiding over a racial-profiling lawsuit against the brash Arizona lawman known for his anti-immigration patrols."
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Fossil Fuel Drilling Triggered Earthquakes in Eight States
Associated Press
Excerpt: "More than a dozen areas in the US have been shaken in recent years by small earthquakes triggered by oil and gas drilling, according to a government report released on Thursday."
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RSN: Only US Nuclear Weapons Waste Storage Site Still Closed and Hot, How Chicago Became Chiraq, With 45 Shot Over Easter Weekend, et al

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William Boardman | Only US Nuclear Weapons Waste Storage Site Still Closed and Hot

William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "More than two months after Plutonium and Americium leaked from the supposedly leak-proof underground nuclear weapons waste storage facility in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) still does not know what caused the leak almost half a mile underground, but on April 17, an exploration crew found increasing radiation levels before retreating to safety."
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High Court Upholds Michigan Affirmative Action Ban
Scott Neuman, National Public Radio
Neuman writes: "The Supreme Court has ruled that a Michigan ballot initiative to ban racial preferences in college admissions is constitutional, overturning a lower court decision."
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Todd Miller | The Creation of a Border Security State
Todd Miller, TomDispatch
Miller writes: "In our brave, new, post-9/11 world, as long as we're talking 'homeland security' or 'war on terror,' anything can be redefined. So why not a border?"
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How Chicago Became Chiraq, With 45 Shot Over Easter Weekend
Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Daly writes: "President Obama may have gotten our troops out of Iraq, but the gunfire in his hometown of Chicago is still earning it a searing nickname coined by young people who live there. Chiraq."
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Five Ways Arizona's Abortion Restrictions Are Hurting Women
Erika L. Sanchez, Rolling Stone
Sanchez writes: "Abortion rights are under attack across the country: Last year alone, the Guttmacher Institute has found that 70 abortion restriction measures were enacted in 22 states."
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'Piles and Piles' of Bodies in S. Sudan Slaughter
Jason Straziuso, Associated Press
Straziuso reports: "The ethnically targeted killings in a provincial capital are 'quite possibly a game-changer' for a conflict that has been raging since mid-December and that has exposed longstanding ethnic hostilities."
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Netflix Comes Out Against Comcast/Time Warner Merger
Brad Reed, Boy Genius Report
Reed writes: "In its letter to shareholders released Monday, Netflix said that a combined Comcast and TWC would 'possess even more anticompetitive leverage to charge arbitrary interconnection tolls for access to their customers.'"
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