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RSN: William Boardman | Senator Warren Calls for End of US Support of War Crimes in Yemen
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "There has never been any justification for the US to unleash this carnage on Yemen."
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William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "There has never been any justification for the US to unleash this carnage on Yemen."
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The US-Mexico border. (photo: AP)
Border Talks at Impasse as Shutdown Looms Friday, Officials Say
Erica Werner and Damian Paletta, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The nation faces the real possibility of another government shutdown Friday at midnight, as bipartisan talks aimed at averting that outcome broke down in a dispute over immigration enforcement, lawmakers and aides said Sunday."
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Erica Werner and Damian Paletta, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The nation faces the real possibility of another government shutdown Friday at midnight, as bipartisan talks aimed at averting that outcome broke down in a dispute over immigration enforcement, lawmakers and aides said Sunday."
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Elizabeth Warren. (photo: Michael Dwyer/AP)
Elizabeth Warren Was Right: New Law Is Already Making Banks Bigger
David Dayen, The Intercept
Dayen writes: "Warren singled out by name her own Democratic colleagues who were supporting the bill, catching internal blowback from the caucus. But Warren's warnings have proven prescient, as the SunTrust-BB&T merger represents the latest in a wave of deals in the financial sector."
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David Dayen, The Intercept
Dayen writes: "Warren singled out by name her own Democratic colleagues who were supporting the bill, catching internal blowback from the caucus. But Warren's warnings have proven prescient, as the SunTrust-BB&T merger represents the latest in a wave of deals in the financial sector."
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Protesters hold signs as they call for a reform of gun laws three days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, at a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., February 17, 2018. (photo: Jonathan Drake/Reuters)
Armed With New Power, Democrats Push for Stricter Gun Laws
Joseph Ax, Reuters
Ax writes: "Democratic lawmakers are pushing stricter gun laws in statehouses across the country, emboldened by sweeping electoral victories in 2018 and confident that public opinion is on their side a year after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida."
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Joseph Ax, Reuters
Ax writes: "Democratic lawmakers are pushing stricter gun laws in statehouses across the country, emboldened by sweeping electoral victories in 2018 and confident that public opinion is on their side a year after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida."
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Photographer Nan Goldin leads an anti-opioid protest at the Guggenheim Museum in New York against its funding by the Sackler family. (photo: Yana Paskova/Guardian UK)
Anti-Opioid Protesters Target New York's Guggenheim Over Sackler Family Link
Joanna Walters, Guardian UK
Walters writes: "US art photographer and activist Nan Goldin brought the Guggenheim Museum in New York to a standstill on Saturday night as thousands of fake prescriptions were dropped into the atrium to protest against the institution's acceptance of donations from the family who owns the maker of OxyContin - the prescription painkiller at the root of America's opioids crisis."
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Joanna Walters, Guardian UK
Walters writes: "US art photographer and activist Nan Goldin brought the Guggenheim Museum in New York to a standstill on Saturday night as thousands of fake prescriptions were dropped into the atrium to protest against the institution's acceptance of donations from the family who owns the maker of OxyContin - the prescription painkiller at the root of America's opioids crisis."
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'The reality of abortion after 20 weeks is far too complicated to reduce to some sort of abstract, incendiary ethical quandary.' (photo: Susi Vetter)
4 Women on Their Abortions After 20 Weeks
The Cut
Excerpt: "There are countless complex reasons someone might decide to get an abortion after 20 weeks. It is, according to those who've made that choice, something you can never fully understand until it's happened to you."
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The Cut
Excerpt: "There are countless complex reasons someone might decide to get an abortion after 20 weeks. It is, according to those who've made that choice, something you can never fully understand until it's happened to you."
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Cauca River. (photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Colombia's Disaster-Ridden Hydropower Project Runs Second Largest River Dry
Taran Volckhausen, Mongabay
Volckhausen writes: "Colombia's environmentalists have declared an ecological disaster after the country’s second most important river, the Cauca, was reduced to less than 10 percent of normal flow after the country’s largest hydroelectric dam project Hidroituango took emergency measures earlier this week."
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Taran Volckhausen, Mongabay
Volckhausen writes: "Colombia's environmentalists have declared an ecological disaster after the country’s second most important river, the Cauca, was reduced to less than 10 percent of normal flow after the country’s largest hydroelectric dam project Hidroituango took emergency measures earlier this week."
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