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Robert Reich | It May Feel Like the World's Ending - but America Has Reason to Hope
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich. (photo: Steve Russell/Toronto Star)
Robert Reich, Guardian UK
Reich writes: "Inequality, the climate crisis, and Trump in the White House may cause despair. But the country is poised to bounce back."
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A man searches for belongings among the debris of a destroyed neighborhood off Great Abaco in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. (photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters)
A man searches for belongings among the debris of a destroyed neighborhood off Great Abaco in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. (photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters)

Dozens of Bahamas Evacuees Were Told to Get Off a Ferry Headed to the US
Christina Maxouris, CNN
Maxouris writes: "Hurricane Dorian may have long since left the Bahamas, but the islands have only begun to grapple with the grim aftermath."

EXCERPT: 
In a social media video taken aboard a ferry boat leaving the Bahamas, posted on Twitter by CNN affiliate WSVN reporter Brian Entin, an unidentified person announces via a loudspeaker that anyone traveling to the United States without a visa must disembark. 
Entin told CNN he was on a Balearia ferry from Freeport to Fort Lauderdale when the announcement was made Sunday. His video shows families with children disembarking the vessel. One woman told Entin that as many as 130 people left the ferry after the announcement. 
"CBP was notified of a vessel preparing to embark an unknown number of passengers in Freeport and requested that the operator of the vessel coordinate with U.S. and Bahamian government officials in Nassau before departing The Bahamas," CBP said in a statement Sunday. 
"Everyone who arrives to the United States from another country must present themselves to a CBP officer for inspection at an official CBP Port of Entry. All persons must possess valid identity and travel documents," the agency said. "CBP has a Preclearance operation in Nassau. CBP is committed to carrying out our duties with professionalism and efficiency -- facilitating lawful international travel and trade."
On its website, CBP says visas are not required for Bahamian residents flying into the US from the Bahamas if they also meet other criteria, including possessing a valid passport or travel documents, having no criminal record and carrying a police certificate issued within the past six months. 

Boris Johnson. (photo: Phil Noble/Reuters)
Boris Johnson. (photo: Phil Noble/Reuters)

Boris Johnson to Suspend Parliament Monday at Height of Brexit Crisis
Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast
Ross writes: "Boris Johnson's government will suspend the British parliament Monday night just weeks before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union with or without a deal."
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Walsh told CNN after the South Carolina vote that his campaign would 'Fight South Carolina and any other state that considers doing this.' (photo: The Joe Walsh Campaign)
Walsh told CNN after the South Carolina vote that his campaign would 'Fight South Carolina and any other state that considers doing this.' (photo: The Joe Walsh Campaign)

South Carolina and Kansas GOP Scrap 2020 Presidential Primary, Caucus
Meg Kinnard, Associated Press
Kinnard writes: "Republican leaders in South Carolina and Kansas have voted to scrap their presidential nominating contests in 2020, while party officials Nevada were deciding whether to follow suit as the GOP erects more hurdles for the long shots challenging President Donald Trump."
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Maggy Hurchalla kayaking near her home in Stuart, Fla., this summer. (photo: Eve Edelheit/NYT)
Maggy Hurchalla kayaking near her home in Stuart, Fla., this summer. (photo: Eve Edelheit/NYT)

The Florida Activist Is 78. The Legal Judgment Against Her Is Million.
Patricia Mazzei, The New York Times
Mazzei writes: "Maggy Hurchalla's piece of Florida heaven is a patch of pristine Atlantic shore accessible only by boat in St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park."

EXCERPT:
Behind Lake Point was George Lindemann Jr., a billionaire real estate investor and heir to a cellphone and cable TV fortune. He served prison time after being convicted in 1995 of paying a man $25,000 to electrocute his horse so Mr. Lindemann could collect a $250,000 insurance payout.
Mr. Lindemann’s consortium wanted to mine for limestone and use the leftover pits to store lake water and clean its pollution, which would otherwise be flushed down the fragile St. Lucie Estuary, contributing to toxic algae blooms. The South Florida Water Management District and Martin County signed off on the project.
But a few years later, Lake Point partnered with another company to try to sell the water to the city of West Palm Beach, troubling Ms. Hurchalla and Martin County officials, who questioned whether the revised plan would really result in environmental benefits. (West Palm Beach ultimately did not buy Lake Point’s water.)
Ms. Hurchalla fired off emails to county commissioners encouraging them to get out of the agreement with Lake Point, arguing that it would destroy wetlands and noting that no peer-reviewed study had examined the effects on restoration plans for the downstream Florida Everglades, which are supposed to get water from Lake Okeechobee, near the mine site.
She sent some of the emails to commissioners’ private email addresses. She signed one of them “Deep Rock Pit” — a joke, she said later, alluding to Deep Throat, the secret Washington Post source during the Watergate scandal.
County staff members issued notices of violation against Lake Point.
In 2013, Lake Point sued the county, the water management district and Ms. Hurchalla, claiming she waged an unlawful campaign against the company that cost it its plans to make money off its cleaned lake water.
The court agreed: The litigation found that commissioners conducted public business using their private email and delayed production of those emails — or destroyed them altogether — in violation of public records laws. Three commissioners were charged in criminal court. A jury acquitted one of them in April, and the state attorney dropped the charges against the other two last month.

One section of Antonine's Wall today. It was built across central Scotland by the Romans as the northern boundary of their empire. (photo: iStock)
One section of Antonine's Wall today. It was built across central Scotland by the Romans as the northern boundary of their empire. (photo: iStock)

Britain Is No Stranger to Barriers. Today, Almost All of Them Lie in Ruins.
Erica X. Eisen, The Washington Post
Eisen writes: "Britain is no stranger to boundaries. From Roman fortifications to medieval civic defenses, it is crisscrossed by layer upon layer of borders that have been erased, abandoned, forgotten as years and empires have moved on."
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Many of the sickened - but not all - were people who had been vaping THC, the chemical that gives marijuana its high. (photo: Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images)
Many of the sickened - but not all - were people who had been vaping THC, the chemical that gives marijuana its high. (photo: Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images)

US Health Officials Urge People to Stop Vaping as Third Death Reported
Associated Press
Excerpt: "US health officials warned people not to vape until they determine the cause of a severe respiratory illness, which has killed at least three people and hospitalized many more."
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