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The New York Times Editorial Board | Roy Moore Loses, Sanity Reigns 
Doug Jones addressed supporters Tuesday night after a major upset over Roy Moore. (photo: CNBC) 
The New York Times Editorial Board 
Excerpt: "That Alabama's voters chose Doug Jones for the United States Senate is cause for celebration." 
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Report: US Weapons Industry Claimed Over Half of Global Arms Sales in 2016 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "A new report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, revealed that despite the slump in global arms industry for five consecutive years, in 2016, arms producers world over saw US$375 billion in profits, with the U.S. weapons industry claiming over half the global sales." 
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'It Happened to Me': Women in Low-Wage Jobs Say #MeToo 
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, Al Jazeera 
Kestler-D'Amours writes: "Farmworker women are especially vulnerable to sexual harassment and abuse at work because of 'a severe imbalance of power' between employers and supervisors and the workers, many of whom are immigrants, according to a 2012 Human Rights Watch report." 
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Catastrophe and Colonialism: How Hurricane Maria Exposed the Crisis of Puerto Rico's Colonial Status 
Pedro Caban, Jacobin 
Caban writes: "Puerto Rico remains an unincorporated territorial possession of the United States, subject to the plenary powers of Congress. The Puerto Rican government exercises only those powers that the Congress allows. In other words, it is still a colony." 
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Nazi Science Is Still Haunting Anatomy and Fueling Conservatives' Worst Anti-Abortion Arguments 
Emily Bazelon, Slate 
Bazelon writes: "Unlike the research of Nazi scientists who became obsessed with racial typing and Aryan superiority, Stieve's work didn't end up in the dustbin of history." 
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Honduras Is Coming Apart, and the State Department's Response Is Utterly Nonsensical 
Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress 
Barnes writes: "It's been two weeks since Hondurans headed to the polls to elect a new president. Since then, there have been reports of electoral fraud, widespread protesting and rioting that have rocked the already-precarious Central American state." 
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Scientists Call for Cheetahs to Be Listed as Endangered 
Mongabay, EcoWatch 
Excerpt: "In a new study, scientists have called for up-listing the species to Endangered yet again." 
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