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RSN: Marc Ash | God Hates a Coward, Mr. Schumer 
Senator Bernie Sanders was one of many progressive leaders who addressed an energized crowd of demonstrators gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court moments after Donald Trump named Judge Bret M. Kavanaugh to be an Associate Supreme Court Justice. (photo: MSNBC)
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "The Federalist Society has picked another Supreme Court Nominee. Doing the bidding for the secretive judicial activist group this time is Donald Trump."
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A security contractor frisks an immigrant detainee. (photo: Getty Images)
A security contractor frisks an immigrant detainee. (photo: Getty Images)



Federal Judge Denies Trump Administration's Request to Indefinitely Detain Families
Meagan Flynn, The Washington Post
Flynn writes: "A federal judge in California Monday rejected the Trump administration's request to indefinitely detain immigrant families apprehended at the border, calling it an attempt by the federal government to simply 'light a match' to a two-decade-old settlement that set strict standards for detaining immigrant children."
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Women grieve as the coffin of one of the 24 migrants who drowned while trying to reach Italy is buried in Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery on the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, on April 23, 2015. The migrants died as a smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya. (photo: Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
Women grieve as the coffin of one of the 24 migrants who drowned while trying to reach Italy is buried in Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery on the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, on April 23, 2015. The migrants died as a smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya. (photo: Alessandra Tarantino/AP)

'I Do This for the Families': The Daunting Task of Identifying Missing Migrants
Joanna Kakissis, NPR
Kakissis writes: "Near the tombs of babies, decorated with teddy bears desiccated by the sun, there's a plot for those whose names are not known. It's marked by a laminated sheet hanging on a tree. It reads: 'Here 24 people rest in peace after drowning on 18 April 2015 in a shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean.'"
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Detainees stand during an early morning Islamic prayer at the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
Detainees stand during an early morning Islamic prayer at the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

Guantanamo Inmates to Get US Court Hearing to Demand Trial or Release
Julian Borger, Guardian UK
Borger writes: "Eleven inmates held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp without charge for as long as 15 years will have a rare hearing in a US court on Wednesday when they submit a petition demanding they be tried or released."
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Parental notification proposals are nothing but a rehash of the same attacks that we have seen on cisgender lesbian, gay, and bisexual students - especially those who want to get involved in Gay-Straight Alliances. (photo: The Daily Beast)
Parental notification proposals are nothing but a rehash of the same attacks that we have seen on cisgender lesbian, gay, and bisexual students - especially those who want to get involved in Gay-Straight Alliances. (photo: The Daily Beast)

How 'Parental Permission' Could Destroy Transgender Kids' Privacy
Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast
Allen writes: "Many transgender children spend over a decade in the custody of someone who may not support them, and who may try to enroll them in harmful conversion therapy programs."
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A rally in Ethiopia. (photo: Reuters)
A rally in Ethiopia. (photo: Reuters)

Ethiopia and Eritrea Unite After Ending 20-Year Border War
Elias Meseret, Associated Press
Meseret writes: "Espousing love between their two countries, the leaders of longtime adversaries Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed Sunday to restore diplomatic relations after nearly 20 years and to open the border between their neighboring Horn of Africa countries."
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Great Barrier Reef. (photo: IBorisoff/iStock)
Great Barrier Reef. (photo: IBorisoff/iStock)

Great Barrier Reef Imperiled as Heat Worsens Die-Offs, Experts Say
Jacqueline Williams, The New York Times
Williams writes: "Scientists have again sounded the alarm about Australia's imperiled Great Barrier Reef, saying that by the 2030s it could see devastating mass bleachings as often as every two years unless greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced."
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