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Reader Supported News | 25 December 17 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News FOCUS: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | How #MeToo Can Help Right America's Wrongs in 2018     Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter   Abdul-Jabbar: "Silence breeds further oppression, so if we want 2018 to be the year of kicking ass rather than groping it, we will have to raise our voices for every group who faces injustice: people of color, women, immigrants, Muslims, the LGBTQ community and anyone else being marginalized by those in power."   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Manage My Donation Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook Follow RSN on Twitter

Study: 298 lives could have been saved with speed control technology By  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  | PUBLISHED:  December 21, 2017 By Michael Balsamo and Michael Sisak | Associated Press Nearly 300 people have died in train crashes that could have been prevented if railroads across the U.S. implemented critical speed-control technology that federal safety investigators have been pushing for close to five decades, according to rail crash data obtained by The Associated Press. But despite overwhelming evidence it could save lives, Congress extended the deadlines for railroads to implement positive train control for years. All the while, new high-speed train routes continue to spring into operation without the technology, including the new route involved in Monday’s Amtrak crash south of Seattle that killed three people and one in Florida that’s expected to start service in the coming weeks. Data the NTSB provided to AP on Wednesday shows the crashes the...

TODAY'S TOP STORIES This Paul Weiss Partner Got the Trump 'Intent' to Lead the FTC. What's the Delay? On Oct. 19, the White House announced its “intent to nominate Paul Weiss antitrust partner Joseph Simons to lead...  READ MORE » Mass Torts Bar 'All-Star' Team Emerges to Lead Opioid MDL A group of more than 20 lawyers who would be on many observers' list of the “best and the brightest of the mass...  READ MORE » Roberts Tells Judiciary to Review Safeguards Against Workplace Misconduct "The Chief Justice has asked me to establish a working group to examine the sufficiency of the safeguards currently...  READ MORE » Breaking: Oakland Judge Issues Second Injunction Blocking Changes to Contraceptive Coverage U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam's ruling comes less than a week after a judge in Philadelphia issued a similar injunction.  READ MORE » How Johnson & Johnson Turned the Tide on Talc Verdicts in 2017 “So far,...

25 December 17 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News YES WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPECT "SOME" DONATIONS - It's "Reader Supported News." Everyone who comes here knows that. We are a community based organization. We don't take corporate cash. We speak truth to power as our community expects. Yes we should have an expectation of "reasonable" support. Yes it's getting serious. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Tom Engelhardt | Who Cares? Not Them, Not It, Not Him, Not (Evidently) Us    Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch   Engelhardt writes: "I'm sure it won't be news to you that, when it comes to him - and I mean, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who reputedly has a void where the normal quotient of human empathy might be - don't give it a second's thought. Beyond himself, his businesses, and possibly (just possibly) his family, he clearly couldn...

Md. woman sues NRA after boyfriend removed her from his will before committing suicide by Richard Reeve/ABC7 Thursday, December 21st 2017 HAGERSTOWN, Md. (ABC7) —  A Hagerstown woman is suing the National Rifle Association, saying her longtime live-in boyfriend was mentally ill when he removed her from his will, was arrested for threatening to kill her son, and replaced her in the will with an NRA foundation before he committed suicide with a shotgun. Stormy Morse says Lewis Tabler Jr. was swindled by foundation attorneys into giving up his $500,000 in life savings. Foundation attorneys dispute that, saying he told them he didn’t want her “to receive a dime” of his retirement plan. Richard Reeve has the story you'll see Only On 7. http://wjla.com/news/local/md-woman-sues-nra-after-boyfriend-removed-her-from-his-will-before-committing-suicide

25 December 17 We Need Reasonable Support - Pretty Badly We have never served more readers or had more participation. That's the good news. The bad news is it's never been harder to raise the basic funding we need to run the organization. The key is "reasonable support." Marc Ash Founder,  Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611 Beatriz Montes de Oca, a physician searching for her brother, Angel, who was kidnapped in 2010 from a Holiday Inn in Monterrey. (photo: Hector Emanuel/ProPublica) DEA Operation Played Hidden Role in the Disappearance of Five Innocent Mexicans By Ginger Thompson, ProPublica 25 December 17 The agency knew why the victims were kidnapped in 2010 by the Zetas drug cartel from a Holiday Inn in Mexico, but it did nothing to investigate...