With More to Come, New JFK Documents Offer Fresh Leads 54 Years Later

28 December 17 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News LAST 3 DAYS OF DECEMBER - NERVOUS TIME - We are now making the best progress we have made all month, but we are woefully short of where we would normally be and time is running out. A few good donations today would really help. Who? / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! With More to Come, New JFK Documents Offer Fresh Leads 54 Years Later    Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy DC  Hall writes: "Half-a-dozen 2017 releases of long-secret documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have given plenty of new leads to those who don't believe alleged gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone."  READ MORE Mueller Is Reportedly Zeroing In on the Trump Campaign's Data Operation - and the RNC  Natasha Bertrand, Business Insider  Bertrand writes: "Special counsel Robert Mueller has begun to question Republican National Committee staffers about the party's 2016 campaign data operation, which helped President Donald Trump's campaign team target voters in critical swing states."  READ MORE Eric Garner's Daughter Erica Declared Brain Dead With No Chance of Recovery After Massive Heart Attack  Christina Carrega, Molly Crane Newman and Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News  Excerpt: "Doctors have listed the daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner as brain dead with no chance of recovery - five days after the mother of two suffered a massive heart attack, the Daily News has learned."  READ MORE US Startup Jacks Up Price of Life Saving Cancer Drug by 1400%  teleSUR  Excerpt: "The potentially life-saving medicine is used to treat patients suffering from brain tumors and Hodgkin's lymphoma."  READ MORE Jeff Sessions Says to Courts: Go Ahead, Jail People Because They're Poor  Chiraag Bains, The New York Times  Bains writes: "Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions retracted an Obama-era guidance to state courts that was meant to end debtors' prisons, where people who are too poor to pay fines are sent. This practice is blatantly unconstitutional, and the guidance had helped jump-start reform around the country. Its withdrawal is the latest sign that the federal government is retreating from protecting civil rights for the most vulnerable among us."  READ MORE How Texas' Harris County Went From 'Capital of Capital Punishment' to Zero Executions  Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor  Gass writes: "From the tragedy of hurricane Harvey to the elation of the Astros' victory in the World Series, the Houston area had an eventful 2017. But some are remembering this year as much for what didn't happen as for what did. They are remembering it as the year Harris County, which includes much of Houston, may have finally shed its nickname as the capital of capital punishment."  READ MORE A Federal Court Forces Trump's EPA to Address the Lead Poisoning Crisis  Emily Atkin, New Republic  Atkin writes: "The dangers of lead are well-documented. The EPA itself has called lead poisoning 'the number one environmental health threat in the U.S. for children ages 6 and younger.'"  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation