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Charles Pierce | If Corporations Are People, Some of Them Should Go to Jail 
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. (photo: Getty)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "But we'll settle for the people who run them."
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Man sells cotton candy near U.S./Mexico border wall. (photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
Man sells cotton candy near U.S./Mexico border wall. (photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

Trump Inches Closer to Declaring Emergency for Wall as Negotiations Stall
David Smith, Guardian UK
Smith writes: "Donald Trump is moving closer to using emergency powers to get $5.7bn to help build a wall on the US-Mexico border."
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Sheldon Adelson. (photo: Gary Cameron/Reuters)
Sheldon Adelson. (photo: Gary Cameron/Reuters)

Casino Mogul Sheldon Adelson, Wife Gave $500K to Trump Campaign's Legal Defense Fund
Soo Rin Kim, ABC News
Kim writes: "A legal defense fund set up to help President Donald Trump's aides caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election received half a million dollars from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Adelson, a new report filed late Thursday shows."
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ICE detention facility. (photo: Getty)
ICE detention facility. (photo: Getty)

ICE Force-Feeding Detainees on Hunger Strike
Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Immigrants have gone on hunger strikes over the past month to protest conditions inside detention facilities, prompting officials to force-feed six of them through plastic nasal tubes at a Texas location."
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls Democrats' HR 1 a 'power grab.' (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls Democrats' HR 1 a 'power grab.' (photo: Alex Wong/Getty

Mitch McConnell: Making Election Day a Federal Holiday Is a Democratic "Power Grab"
Tara Golshan, Vox
Golshan writes: "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn't think Election Day should be a federal holiday because that would give Democrats too much power."
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Venezuela's opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, speaks during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, January 26. (photo: Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)
Venezuela's opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, speaks during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, January 26. (photo: Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters)

Rep. Ro Khanna | Why I Strongly Oppose US Intervention in Venezuela
Ro Khanna, The Washington Post
Khanna writes: "The Trump administration's embrace of the self-proclaimed new leader of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, reeks of the highly ambitious social engineering that has been at the cornerstone of neoconservative thinking for a century. The old gang is back at it."
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Starfish. (photo: Pedro Lastra/Unsplash)
Starfish. (photo: Pedro Lastra/Unsplash)

Massive Starfish Die-Off Is Tied to Global Warming
Rebecca Hersher, NPR
Hersher writes: "Since 2013, sea star wasting disease has killed so many starfish along the Pacific Coast that scientists say it's the largest disease epidemic ever observed in wild marine animals."
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