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Biden Plummets Below Sanders and Warren for First Time in Major National Poll 

Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone
Bort writes: "The former vice president finds himself trailing for the first time in the latest Monmouth University poll."
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Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay far less than the $17.2 billion the state asked for. (photo: John Tlumacki/Getty Images)

Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million for Its Role in Oklahoma's Opioid Crisis
Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post
Bernstein writes: "Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman's landmark decision is the first to hold a drugmaker culpable for the fallout of years of liberal opioid dispensing that began in the late 1990s."
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Water protectors of all persuasions gathered in talking circles at Borderland Ranch in Pe'Sla, the heart of the sacred Black Hills, during the first Sovereign Sisters Gathering. At the center are Cheryl Angel in red and white and on her left, Lyla June. (photo: Tracy Barnett/YES! Magazine)

How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies
Tracy L. Barnett, YES! Magazine
Barnett writes: "Nearly 100 Indigenous water protectors and non-Indigenous allies met in the Black Hills of South Dakota for one week to take steps to establish a sovereign economy."
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Joe Arpaio was the sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona. (photo: Darren Hauck/AP)

Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Wants to Bring Back His Brutal Tent City
Jeremy Stahl, Slate
Stahl writes: "One of the most notoriously racist sheriffs in recent American history wants his job back."
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La Jarvis D. Love is photographed in his home in Senatobia, Mississippi, Sunday, June 9, 2019. Love says he was sexually abused by a Franciscan friar at a Catholic grade school in Greenwood. (photo: Wong Maye-E/AP)

In Mississippi Delta, Catholic Abuse Cases Settled on Cheap
Michael Rezendes, Associated Press
Rezendes writes: "The IHOP in Southhaven, Mississippi, was an unlikely place to settle a sex abuse claim against the Catholic Church."
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Pharmacy shops at Bhagirath Palace's pharmaceuticals market in Old Delhi, India. (photo: Saumya Khandelwal/Guardian UK)

Facing Fire Over Opioid Crisis, US Drugmakers Eye a Booming New Pain Market in India
Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News
Excerpt: "As India loosens its stringent narcotics laws, US companies including Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories and a network affiliated with Purdue Pharma are rushing in."
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Rising temperatures along the traditional holy route are worrying. (photo: Abid Katib/Getty Images)

Rising Temperatures Pose 'Extreme Danger' to Muslims on Hajj Pilgrimage
Paola Rosa-Aquino, Grist
Rosa-Aquino writes: "According to a new study, climate change could lead to an increase in temperatures and humidity along the heart of the Hajj route, putting many devotees in 'extreme danger' of developing heat-related illnesses."
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24 May 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FRANTICALLY TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION ON DONATIONS! We have run out of time on funding. We have to fight now for RSN. No choice. Over the past 4 days donations have all but vanished. Today again is starting out very slowly. Who out there can make a donation? We need to get moving ASAP. Thanks in advance to all. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Garrison Keillor | Life Is So Interesting, It's Hard to Stop  Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website Keillor writes: "Do as I do. Take it one day at a time. Lighten up." READ MORE Fisher Industries workers prepare land on private property in Sunland Park, New Mexico, near El Paso. (photo: Jordyn Rozensky and Justin Hamel/The Washington Post) Trump Tries to Steer Border Wall Deal to GOP Donor's Firm Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Excerpt: "President Trump has personally and repeatedly urged the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a border wall contract to a North Dakota construction firm whose top executive is a GOP donor and frequent guest on Fox News, according to four administration officials." READ MORE U.S. troops board a transport helicopter in Afghanistan. (photo: Department of Defense) Amid Iran Tensions, Trump Announces Deployment of Additional 1,500 Troops to Middle East Reuters and Haaretz Excerpt: "U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he will send about 1,500 American troops to the Middle East, mostly as a protective measure, amid heightened tensions with Iran." READ MORE Private prison facility. (photo: Eric Risberg/AP) How the For-Profit Prison Industry Keeps 460,000 Innocent People in Jail Every Day Luke Darby, GQ Darby writes: "Cash bail presents people with two choices: debt or jail." READ MORE Activists from the National Center for Transgender Equality and other organizations rallied in support of transgender rights in front of the White House last year. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty) ALSO SEE: The US Government Says Homeless Shelters Should Be Allowed to Ban Trans People Trump Administration to Roll Back Transgender Health Protections Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Alonso-Zaldivar writes: "The Trump administration proposed revoking Obama-era discrimination protections for transgender people in health care on Friday, a move LGBT groups fear will result in some Americans being denied needed medical treatment." READ MORE Syrians walk amid the debris of destroyed buildings in Raqqa on Jan. 11, 2018. (photo: Delil  Amnesty Urges US to Pay Reparations to Syrians After Killing 1,600 Civilians in Assault on Raqqa Democracy Now! Excerpt: "Amnesty International is calling for the United States to pay reparations to survivors of the U.S.-led military coalition attack on Raqqa." READ MORE Ella Coleman, front, and daughter Tricia Coleman on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (photo: Ryan C Hermens/EHRP) A Promise Unfulfilled: Water Pipeline Stops Short for Sioux Reservation Seth Tupper, Guardian UK Tupper writes: "After 25 years and a half-billion dollars, only half of the project's water delivered to Pine Ridge Reservation comes from the Missouri River - unlike supplies for white ranchers." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

Trump Has Unleashed Stephen Miller to Inflict Horrors on Immigrants

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Trump Has Unleashed Stephen Miller to Inflict Horrors on Immigrants 

Lawrence Douglas, Guardian UK
Douglas writes: "It is a deformity of the Trump presidency that Stephen Miller has the power that he currently wields."
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Waters during a hearing last month. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

Steve Mnuchin Tried to Tell Maxine Waters How to Run a Congressional Hearing. It Did Not Go Well.
Aaron Rupar, Vox 

Video of the incident quickly went viral.

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In testy exchange, Rep. Maxine Waters tells Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, "no other secretary has ever told us the day before that they were going to limit their time."

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Rupar writes: "During a hearing on Tuesday, an exasperated Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) an offer he didn't think she'd accept - but she did."
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Erik Wemple | Yes, Fox News Matters. A Lot.
Erik Wemple, The Washington Post
Wemple writes: "A debate is brewing about just how much influence Fox News exerts over the United States."
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Trump's former property in Baku, Azerbaijan. (photo: Artur Widak/Getty)

Why Has Congress Stalled on Investigating Money Laundering Allegations at Trump Properties?
Casey Michel, ThinkProgress
Michel writes: "When Donald Trump assumed the presidency in 2017, two of his foreign projects - one in Panama and one in Azerbaijan - stood out for what appeared to be clear links to foreign money laundering operations."
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Eddie Cotton, 82, Hermanville, Mississippi, clears a field for a fall crop of hay, using a 40-yr-old tractor. (photo: Charleston Chronicle)

African-American Farmers Make Up Less Than 2 Percent of All US Farmers
Emily Moon, Pacific Standard
Moon writes: "African-American farmers make up less than 2 percent of all farmers in the United States. They helm shrinking operations that are less profitable on average than those owned by their white counterparts - and, according to a new report, this decline is the direct result of discriminatory lending practices by the U.S. Department of Agriculture."
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Palestinian man reads a local newspaper with news of the Israeli election, in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (photo: Mussa Issa Qawasma/Reuters)

'The Future Is Dark': Palestinians React to Israel's Election
Sufian Taha, Oliver Holmes and Hazem Balousha, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Palestinians and their leaders in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip have reacted to the likely re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightwing allies with both horror and apathy."
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Standing Rock protester. (photo: Getty)

The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented a New Legal Term to Target Pipeline Protesters
Andrew Malone and Vera Eidelman, ACLU
Excerpt: "The government of South Dakota has made it very clear that it does not like people who protest the Keystone XL pipeline."
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Bernie Sanders | I Know Where I Came From

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Bernie Sanders | I Know Where I Came From 

Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders' Facebook Page
Sanders writes: "My experience as a kid, living in a family that struggled economically, powerfully influenced my life and my values. Unlike Donald Trump, who shut down the government and left 800,000 federal employees without income to pay the bills, I know what it's like to be in a family that lives paycheck to paycheck."
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ALSO SEE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Manafort Sentencing Shows
Justice Isn't 'Blind,' It's 'Bought'

Manafort Gets Far Less Prison Time Than Sentencing Guidelines Call For
Rachel Weiner, Lynh Bui, Justin Jouvenal and Devlin Barrett, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Paul Manafort, who once served as President Trump's campaign chairman, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Thursday for cheating on his taxes and bank fraud - a far lesser sentence than the roughly 20 years he had faced under federal sentencing guidelines."
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Activists march against Immigration and Customs Enforcement across the street from the ICE offices in New York on June 29. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty)

Report: ICE Tracked Anti-Trump Protests in NYC
The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "As anti-Trump sentiment reached a fever pitch last summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement began monitoring and tracking left-wing protests in New York City."
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Jared Kushner Went Rogue in Saudi Arabia, Prompting National Security Concerns
Chris Riotta, The Independent
Riotta writes: "Donald Trump's senior White House adviser once again abandoned government normalities during an official state trip to Saudi Arabia, reportedly discussing US-Saudi cooperation with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a meeting that lacked representation from the US Embassy in Riyadh."
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Sloane (no last name given), 2, waits between her father's legs as he and other voters cast their ballots at a polling station set up at Grady High School for the mid-term elections on November 6, 2018, in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia has a tight race to elect the state's next governor. (photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty)

Georgia Is One Vote Away From Stealing Elections for the Next 20 Years
Jason Johnson, The Root 

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HB 316 calls for the state to purchase new voting machines that have paper ballots, with one strange caveat: The paper ballots will have the written name of the candidate, but the actual vote will be recorded on a bar code that only the machines can read. Now, unless you’re Neo in The Matrix, nobody knows how to read bar code, so it’s perfectly possible that some corrupt politician, or “glitch,” or foreign power could hack into the voting machines and have the bar code read something different than the actual writing. Why would a ballot have what amounts to “small print” unless you were trying to hide something? Like all villains, Fleming is arrogant and couldn’t help but unintentionally brag about his evil plans because he believed nobody would stop him.

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UNBELIEVABLE: House Bill 316 author @flemingbarrya admits that voting machines under his bill won’t be fully audited until 2024 ()— a HUGE gift to voting machine vendors like ES&S.

Enough already. We need #handmarkedpaperballots. #gapol

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Johnson writes: "During the 2018 elections in Georgia, Secretary of State Brian Kemp was the villain, overseeing his own gubernatorial election and stealing a victory from Stacey Abrams. But now, like the Bond franchise, we have another villain willing to step into the breach."
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Young man at a grave in Yemen. (photo: EPA)

US and British Bombs Have Killed and Injured 1,000 Civilians in Yemen
Sudarsan Raghavan, The Independent
Raghavan writes: "American and British-made bombs may have killed or injured nearly 1,000 civilians, including women and children, in Yemen's four-year conflict, according to a report by human rights groups."
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Woman at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, during protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. Under the proposed bills, such demonstrators could be prosecuted. (photo: Josué Rivas)

South Dakota Pushes Bills to Allow the State to Sue Protesters and Use Money for Pipeline-Related Costs
Elena Saavedra Buckley, High Country News
Saavedra Buckley writes: "Two bills allowing the state of South Dakota to prosecute pipeline demonstrators and their funders - and use money from damages to fund law enforcement and pipeline costs - moved to the Senate floor on Wednesday."
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