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Mueller Is Laying Siege to the Trump Presidency
Mikhaila Fogel and Bejamin Wittes, The Atlantic
Excerpt: "It happens this way every time: A big news event in the Trump-Russia investigation takes place, and commentators talk about it as though a house of cards were collapsing or a row of dominoes were falling."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the New York City Women's March. (photo: John Lamparski 2018/Getty Images)
Mikhaila Fogel and Bejamin Wittes, The Atlantic
Excerpt: "It happens this way every time: A big news event in the Trump-Russia investigation takes place, and commentators talk about it as though a house of cards were collapsing or a row of dominoes were falling."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the New York City Women's March. (photo: John Lamparski 2018/Getty Images)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren's 'Soak the Rich' Tax Plans Are Supported by an Increasing Number of Americans
Bob Bryan, Business Insider
Bryan writes: "A growing number of progressive politicians are introducing proposals to increase taxes on the richest people in the US, and new polling shows that many people are getting on board with the ideas."
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Commissioners in Sandusky, Ohio, have voted to make Election Day a city holiday, in place of Columbus Day. Sandusky resident Moses Croom is seen here voting at a polling station at a local library in November 2008. (photo: Jason Werling/Sandusky Register)
Bob Bryan, Business Insider
Bryan writes: "A growing number of progressive politicians are introducing proposals to increase taxes on the richest people in the US, and new polling shows that many people are getting on board with the ideas."
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Commissioners in Sandusky, Ohio, have voted to make Election Day a city holiday, in place of Columbus Day. Sandusky resident Moses Croom is seen here voting at a polling station at a local library in November 2008. (photo: Jason Werling/Sandusky Register)
Sandusky, Ohio, Makes Election Day a Paid Holiday - by Swapping Out Columbus Day
Laurel Wamsley, NPR
Wamsley writes: "Sandusky, Ohio, is a small city on the shores of Lake Erie. It's best known among Midwesterners as the home of Cedar Point, an amusement park famed for its abundance of roller coasters. But last week city leaders took steps that could make Sandusky known as a leader of democracy, too: They declared Election Day a paid holiday - by swapping out Columbus Day."
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Laurel Wamsley, NPR
Wamsley writes: "Sandusky, Ohio, is a small city on the shores of Lake Erie. It's best known among Midwesterners as the home of Cedar Point, an amusement park famed for its abundance of roller coasters. But last week city leaders took steps that could make Sandusky known as a leader of democracy, too: They declared Election Day a paid holiday - by swapping out Columbus Day."
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Nicole Hernandez, of the Mexican state of Guerrero, holds on to her mother as they wait with other families to request political asylum in the United States, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. (photo: Gregory Bull/AP)
Dems Accuse Trump Admin of "State-Sponsored Child Abuse" as Separated Migrant Children Scandal Grows
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Trump administration officials are acknowledging that there may be thousands more missing immigrant children who were separated from their parents than originally reported."
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Binghamton, New York. (photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters)
NAACP Demands New York School District Apologize for Strip Search of Four 12-Year-Old Girls
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A civil rights group representing families of four 12-year-old girls who claim they were strip searched for drugs in school is demanding an apology and other measures from an upstate New York school district."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "A civil rights group representing families of four 12-year-old girls who claim they were strip searched for drugs in school is demanding an apology and other measures from an upstate New York school district."
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Israel's High Court is liable for war crime committed against Palestinians, said a new report. (photo: Reuters)
Israel Top Court Liable for War Crimes for Forcibly Transferring Palestinians: Rights Group
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Israel's human rights organization B'Tselem released a report Tuesday in which it said that Israel's Civil Administration which governs Area C of the Occupied West Bank, and Israel's High Court of Justice could be liable for war crimes for the 'forcible transfer' of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Israel's human rights organization B'Tselem released a report Tuesday in which it said that Israel's Civil Administration which governs Area C of the Occupied West Bank, and Israel's High Court of Justice could be liable for war crimes for the 'forcible transfer' of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank."
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Grey reef sharks at Maui Ocean Center. (photo: Joe Boyd/Flickr)
Will Hawaii Ban Purposeful Killing and Abuse of Sharks and Rays?
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Hawaiian lawmakers and conservationists are pushing for a landmark law to protect the Aloha State's sharks and rays."
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Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Hawaiian lawmakers and conservationists are pushing for a landmark law to protect the Aloha State's sharks and rays."
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