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This President* Never Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt 
Donald Trump. (photo: Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Over the weekend, there was some slanging and banging on the electric Twitter machine over a very interesting topic: whether or not it is Good Journalism to continue to cover extensively the president*'s gin-up-the-rubes rallies, at which he says the same stuff, over and over again, as though there is any real news value in anything said by this moldy bag of old resentments."
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Senator Jack Reed proposed the measure. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Senator Jack Reed proposed the measure. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

On Eve of NATO Summit Senate Votes to Constrain Trump
Joe Gould, Defense News
Gould writes: "Lawmakers in Washington worked quickly Tuesday to set legislative guardrails in support of NATO as President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly bashed the alliance, arrived in Europe for a NATO summit and meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later in the week."
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Chinese President Xi Jinping. (photo: EFE)
Chinese President Xi Jinping. (photo: EFE)



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$200 Billion Trade Threat


Trump Kicks Trade War With China Into High Gear, Threatens Tariffs on $200 Billion of Goods
Bob Bryan, Business Insider
Bryan writes: "The Trump administration has released a gargantuan list of Chinese goods that will be subject to tariffs, kicking a burgeoning trade war into high gear."
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A pregnant woman from El Salvador at a Catholic Charities relief center June 17, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. Catholic Charities is not one of the centers accused of mistreating women. (photo: Loren Elliott/AFP/Getty Images)
A pregnant woman from El Salvador at a Catholic Charities relief center June 17, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. Catholic Charities is not one of the centers accused of mistreating women. (photo: Loren Elliott/AFP/Getty Images)

Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried in Immigration Detention and Didn't Get the Care They Needed
Ema O'Connor and Nidhi Prakash, BuzzFeed
Excerpt: "Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration say they have been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused."
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The Trump administration is siding with industry on a forthcoming United Nations guideline for 'follow-up' formulas or 'growing-up milks,' baby formula marketed for children over 6 months of age. (photo: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)
The Trump administration is siding with industry on a forthcoming United Nations guideline for 'follow-up' formulas or 'growing-up milks,' baby formula marketed for children over 6 months of age. (photo: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

How Trump Is Helping the Baby Formula Industry Mislead Moms About Breastfeeding
Julia Belluz, Vox
Belluz writes: "Public health institutions, including WHO and governments around the world, have been working to encourage and support moms in breastfeeding, and also counter marketing claims by food companies suggesting formulas are an equivalent substitute."
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Colombians protest against the killing of social activists, in Bogota. (photo: Reuters)
Colombians protest against the killing of social activists, in Bogota. (photo: Reuters)

Study: Over 10,000 Indigenous Colombians Rights Violated
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Colombia's National Indigenous Organization reported that in Colombia '66% of Indigenous peoples are facing extinction.'"
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Recycling. (photo: Dave and Les Jacobs/Getty Images)
Recycling. (photo: Dave and Les Jacobs/Getty Images)

More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution
Matt Wilkins, Scientific American
Wilkins writes: "It's a lie that wasteful consumers cause the problem and that changing our individual habits can fix it."
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