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Garrison Keillor | Why I Do Not Own an Air Mattress
 Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Blog Keillor writes: "What a glorious summer. Sunny skies and idyllic summer nights and then we had that ferocious heat wave to prevent us from going camping. When it's 100 degrees in the North Woods, only demented people would be camping, and if you weren't demented when you pitched your tent, you soon would be." READ MORE  Sandy Gonzalez, 8, and her mother, Angelica Gonzalez-Garcia, at a home in suburban Boston where the two are now staying. Mother and daughter were reunited July 5 after being separated at the border and detained by ICE. (photo: Josh Reynolds/WP)
Immigrant Kids Held in Shelters: 'They Told Us to Behave, or We'd Be Here Forever'
Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post Miller writes: "When the 8-year-old stepped off a plane here earlier this month with freshly cut bangs and a shelter-issued sweatsuit, she was met by crowds and television cameras and finally, in a carpeted airport conference room, by the mother who had been taken from her two months earlier at the border." READ MORE  Police officers face off with demonstrators at the scene of a fatal police-involved shooting on July 14, 2018, in the South Shore neighborhood. (photo: Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Neighborhood Explodes After Officer Kills Popular Black Barber; Police Say He Was 'Exhibiting Characteristics' of an Armed Person
Angela Helm, The Root Helm writes: "A South Side Chicago neighborhood was the site of violent clashes between police and residents of a community where an officer fatally shot an African-American man on Saturday evening." READ MORE  Some businesses want to be able to refuse services to LGBT people, married or not. (image: Daily Beast)
These Businesses Don't Want Your Money if You're LGBT, Married or Not
Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast Allen writes: "'The other cases that we've been talking about involving florists and cakes center around a wedding,' he said. 'And anti-gay discrimination happens in a broad range of contexts, including outside wedding services. This case illustrates that point.'" READ MORE  Eve, 1885. An immigrant from El Salvador, seven months pregnant, stands next to a U.S. Border Patrol truck after turning herself in to border agents on Dec. 7, 2015, near Rio Grande City, Texas. (image: Anna Lea Merritt/John Moore/Getty Images)
Made to Suffer for Her Sins: Trump's Policies Towards Women
Christina Cauterucci, Slate Cauterucci writes: "Last spring, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress worked together to pass a bill that would have gutted the Affordable Care Act. That piece of legislation doubled as an ideological manifesto." READ MORE  The charity runs homes for unmarried pregnant women. (photo: Getty Images)
Mother Teresa's Charity Accused of Selling Babies in Indian Police Sting
teleSUR Excerpt: "Last week, Indian authorities said they busted a baby-trafficking racket in a shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity, the religious sect set up by the world-renowned Mother Teresa, the late Albanian-Indian missionary, in 1950." READ MORE  Baby Tapanuli orangutan in Indonesia. (photo: Maxime Aliaga)
Scientists Urge Indonesian President to Nix Dam in Orangutan Habitat
Hans Nicholas Jong, Mongabay Jong writes: "Twenty-five of the world's top environmental scientists have lambasted plans to construct a hydroelectric dam in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, because it would threaten the rarest species of great ape on Earth." READ MORE |
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