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Bernie Sanders | Now Is the Time to Stand Up to Big Pharma 

Bernie Sanders, Los Angeles Times 
Sanders writes: "Prescription drug prices in the United States are the highest in the world - by far. Californians on Nov. 8 have a chance to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry's greed and spark a national movement to end this price-gouging." 
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The US Government Wants to Read Travelers' Tweets Before Letting Them In 
Cora Currier, The Intercept 
Currier writes: "Soon, foreign visitors to the United States will be expected to tell U.S. authorities about their social media accounts." 
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Chicago Cops Who Broke "Code of Silence" to Report Police Drug Gang Face Deadly Retaliation 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Two Chicago police officers say they have faced retaliation and suffered from PTSD since they blew the whistle on a gang of their fellow cops who were demanding bribes from drug dealers in the housing projects of Chicago." 
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NSA Can Access More Phone Data Than Ever 
Lee Ferran, ABC News 
Ferran writes: "Before the signing of the USA Freedom Act in June 2015, one of the NSA's most controversial programs was the mass collection of telephonic metadata from millions of Americans - the information about calls, including the telephone numbers involved, the time and the duration but not the calls' content - under a broad interpretation of the Patriot Act's Section 215." 
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Rallying the Black Vote in Freddie Gray's Baltimore 
Cajsa Wikstrom, Al Jazeera 
Wikstrom writes: "Marvin 'Doc' Cheatham is on a mission. He has been sitting outside the elementary school in Baltimore's Matthew Henson neighbourhood since early morning, hoping to register new voters and convince them they can bring change." 
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Central American Migrants Showing Record Levels of Mental Health Problems 
Nina Lakhani, Guardian UK 
Lakhani writes: "Central American migrants are suffering from record levels of mental health problems, amid a rise in violent attacks after a US-sponsored immigration crackdown forced them to use more perilous routes through Mexico." 
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Watchdog: EPA Action to Protect Flint Residents From Lead Was Delayed 7 Months 
Merrit Kennedy, NPR 
Kennedy writes: "The Environmental Protection Agency had the authority and information to issue an emergency order protecting residents of Flint, Mich., from lead-tainted water a full seven months before it did so, an EPA internal investigation has concluded." 
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RSN; EPA Pushes to Solidify Federal Power to Protect Streams, Wetlands, Veterans Frustrated by Presidential Debate on Iraq War, Ted Cruz Is Tired of Your Big Gay Questions

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Charles Pierce | Ted Cruz Is Tired of Your Big Gay Questions

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Tailgunner Ted Cruz, who has grown tired of you people with your MSNBC-guided gay missile questions while he tries to secure a book dea...er...run for president."
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NSA Bulk Phone Records Collection to End Despite USA Freedom Act Failure
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman writes: "It represents a quiet, unceremonious end to the most domestically acrimonious NSA program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, in a June 2013 exposé in the Guardian - effectively preempting a bid by GOP leader Mitch McConnell to retain it. But McConnell and other Senate Republicans intend to continue their fight."
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Irish Voters Approve Same-Sex Marriage
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "Ireland on Saturday became the first country in the world to adopt same-sex marriage by popular vote as 62 percent of the electorate backed a referendum to amend the constitution."
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Las Vegas Tycoon Sheldon Adelson to Face Graft Accusations in US Court
Chris McGreal, Guardian UK
McGreal writes: "A judge in Las Vegas has ruled that a lawsuit involving accusations of graft and organized crime ties to casinos owned by the multibillionaire and Republican party funder, Sheldon Adelson, will be heard in the US."
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Veterans Frustrated by Presidential Debate on Iraq War
Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
Santana writes: "Veterans of the Iraq War have been watching in frustration as Republican presidential contenders distance themselves from the decision their party enthusiastically supported to invade that country."
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Syria Regime Accused of Using Chlorine Bombs on Civilians
Kareem Shaheen, Guardian UK
Shaheen writes: "Syrian civil defense workers and doctors have documented 35 barrel bomb attacks where chlorine was allegedly used since 16 March - the latest of which was on Tuesday near the former regime stronghold of Jisr al-Shughour - with more than 1,000 injuries and nine deaths."
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EPA Pushes to Solidify Federal Power to Protect Streams, Wetlands
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "The Obama administration is expected to soon announce a new rule reaffirming the federal government's powers to protect the nation's waters from pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday."
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