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Charles Pierce | Mueller Is Steadily Working His Way Up the Food Chain 
Robert Mueller. (photo: James Berglie/TNS)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "So, on Friday, Rick Gates, without whom Paul Manafort could not have fluffed and folded a single dollar, copped a plea in federal court. This brings Robert Mueller's investigation even closer to the king fixer, who absolutely has no place to go right now."
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Donald Trump. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Donald Trump. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)


Trump's Proposal to Arm Teachers Panned by Experts as a 'Colossally Stupid Idea'
Elizabeth Chuck and Corky Siemaszko, NBC News
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump has proposed a solution to end classroom massacres once and for all: Arm some of America's teachers with concealed weapons, and train them to 'immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions,' he said Thursday."
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The Bridge of the Americas connects Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
The Bridge of the Americas connects Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty)


America No Longer a 'Nation of Immigrants,' USCIS Says
Richard Gonzales, NPR
Gonzales writes: "United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is changing its mission statement to eliminate a passage that describes the U.S. as 'a nation of immigrants.'"
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Melania Trump. (photo: Getty Images)
Melania Trump. (photo: Getty Images)

14-Year-Old Parkland Survivor Calls Out Melania Trump for Sitting by as Donald Trump Jr. Cyberbullied Her
Jeva Lange, The Week
Excerpt: "Fourteen-year-old Lauren Hogg, who survived the Parkland, Florida, school shooting last week but lost four of her friends, rebuked first lady Melania Trump on Friday after Donald Trump Jr. 'liked' tweets pushing conspiracy theories about the students."
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Corozal, Puerto Rico. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Corozal, Puerto Rico. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

'Disaster Capitalism': Puerto Rico Mulls Utility Privatization
Shihab Rattansi, Al Jazeera
Rattansi writes: "Puerto Rico's governor Ricardo Rosello has been visiting the US mainland, looking for financial support for the island battered by hurricanes last year."
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Protesters clash with police during a demonstration against the re-election of Honduras' President Hernandez near the National Congress in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (photo: Reuters)
Protesters clash with police during a demonstration against the re-election of Honduras' President Hernandez near the National Congress in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (photo: Reuters)

Honduras: 'Caravan of Insurrection' Protests Election Fraud
teleSUR
Except: "Supporters of former Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla went back to the streets Friday as part of what they called 'Caravan of insurrection,' to continue their protests against fraud during the November elections which handed President Juan Orlando Hernandez a second term in office."
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Researchers check ice floe thickness near a glacier. (photo: Colorado.edu)
Researchers check ice floe thickness near a glacier. (photo: Colorado.edu)

Melting Ice Could Unleash Hazardous Waste From Abandoned Cold War Project
Sarah Laskow, Grist
Laskow writes: "The creation of Camp Century, from the outset, was an audacious scheme. Under the thick ice of Greenland, a scant 800 miles from the North Pole, the U.S. military built a hidden base of ice tunnels, imagined as an extensive network of railway tracks, stretching over 2,500 miles, that would keep 600 nuclear missiles buried under the ice."
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