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Bernie Sanders on Saudi Arabia: US Can't Have an "Ally That Murders in Cold Blood"
 Tim Marcin, Newsweek Marcin writes: "Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday called for a re-evaluation of the U.S.'s relationship with Saudi Arabia after the nation, as he described it, carried out a murder of a journalist 'in cold blood' in their consulate in Istanbul." READ MORE  Protesters during a rally against Saudi Arabia's murder of the Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Trump's GOP Allies Quietly Fuel Campaign to Smear Journalist
Robert Costa and Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a whispering campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident journalist's alleged murder by operatives of Saudi Arabia - and support Trump's continued aversion to a forceful response to the oil-rich desert kingdom." READ MORE  Coal ash from a 40-acre pond flows into the Emory River after a retention wall collapsed December 22, 2008, at the Kingston Fossil Plant. (photo: The Knoxville News Sentinel)
Sickened Kingston Coal Ash Workers Claim Company Hid Health Risks, Tampered With Air Monitors
Mark Hand, ThinkProgress
EXCERPT:
The Kingston coal plant, with a generating capacity of almost 1,400 megawatts, is still in operation. The plant burns about 14,000 tons of coal a day, an amount that would fill 140 railroad cars.
Hand writes: "The trial in one of the nation's worst workplace negligence cases began this week in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee. The workers assigned to clean up the massive coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Kingston coal-fired power plant are finally getting their day in court." READ MORE  Proud Boys pose for a picture after the Friday attack on protesters in New York. (photo: Shay Horse)
NYPD Makes Arrest After Trump-Supporting Hate Group the 'Proud Boys' Attacks Protesters
Julia Reinstein and Mary Ann Georgantopoulos, BuzzFeed Excerpt: "A member of the Proud Boys, the far-right men's organization that assaulted left-wing protesters after a Republican event last week in Manhattan, was arrested Thursday for the brawl, the New York Police Department said." READ MORE  A child sits on the floor as Honduran migrants, part of a caravan trying to reach the U.S., queue to get a mat to rest at a migrant shelter in Guatemala City, Guatemala, October 17, 2018. (photo: Reuters)
Trump Threatens Military Shutdown of Mexican Border Because of Migrant 'Onslaught'
Victoria Macchi, VOA News Macchi writes: "President Donald Trump is threatening to send the military to close the southern U.S. border unless Mexico stops what he calls an 'onslaught' of Central American migrants who are now poised to enter Mexico from its border with Guatemala." READ MORE  People carry a portrait of the Óscar Romero during a demonstration to ask to reopen the case of his murder. Romero will be declared saint by the Catholic church on 14 October. (photo: Jose Cabezas/Reuters)
Salvadorans Await Justice in Civil War Killings as One of Its First Victims Sainted
Anna-Catherine Brigida, Guardian UK Brigida writes: "Archbishop Oscar Romero, an advocate for the poor, was one of 75,000 killed by the country's US-backed military." READ MORE  Red pandas represent 31 million years of unique evolutionary history, which is now endangered. (photo: Gerry Ellis/Minden Pictures)
Human-Caused Extinctions Have Set Mammals Back Millions of Years
Christie Wilcox, National Geographic Wilcox writes: "Mammals took over the world after the last big extinction event. Now, one mammal is undoing all of that - us." READ MORE |
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