John Cory | In America

15 February 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News TENS OF THOUSANDS HAVE NOT DONATED: WE NEED 400: 400 donations will finish this drive. You're out there, you never donate, but you like RSN and you're thinking about it. Bring it, we need it now. In peace and solidarity. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! John Cory | In America  John Cory, Reader Supported News  Cory writes: "In America we send our children off to school to be slaughtered."  READ MORE Detainees in the women's wing for unauthorized immigrants at the Eloy Detention Facility, a private prison under contract by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Eloy, Ariz., in 2010. (photo: John Moore/Getty) Asylum Seekers Are Being Sexually Assaulted in US Detention  Gaby Del Valle, The Outline  Del Valle writes: "Twenty days after fleeing her small town in El Salvador last summer, Laura Monterrosa made it to the Texas side of the Rio Grande."  READ MORE Ivanka Trump walks with her husband, White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner; neither of them holds a permanent security clearance. (photo: Getty) More Than 130 Trump Officials Lack Permanent Security Clearances, Including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner  Carol E. Lee, Mike Memoli, Kristen Welker and Rich Gardella, NBC News  Excerpt: "More than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances as of November 2017, including the president's daughter, son-in-law and his top legal counsel, according to internal White House documents obtained by NBC News."  READ MORE Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (photo: Joel Auerbach/AP) There Have Already Been 18 School Shootings in the US This Year  ABC News  Excerpt: "Today's shooting marks the first of the year in Florida. There were three shootings at different schools in Texas, two in different California schools and two in different Michigan schools, according to Everytown's data. There are 10 other states that had at least one shooting."  READ MORE Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal lawyer, has said he paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket to cover up an affair between her and President Trump. (photo: Getty) Stormy Daniels Payment May Be Illegal, Even if It Came From Trump's Lawyer  Margaret Hartmann, New York Magazine  Hartmann writes: "It may not be immediately apparent how money used to pay off a candidate's mistress that doesn't pass through the campaign could violate campaign finance laws, but a fairly recent political scandal addressed that very question."  READ MORE John Hannah (R), now senior counselor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, sits to the left of Vice President Dick Cheney on Air Force two. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty) Trump Administration to Name Former Dick Cheney Aide as Syria Envoy  Laura Rozen, Al-Monitor  Rozen writes: "The Donald Trump administration is expected to name John Hannah as the next US Syria envoy, as it seeks to reinvigorate the UN-led Geneva negotiations and advance a political resolution to the Syrian conflict, multiple Syria experts and a US official told Al-Monitor."  READ MORE Drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (photo: AP) Environmental Groups Sue Trump Over Allowing Oil Giants to Dump Fracking Chemicals Into Gulf of Mexico  teleSUR  Excerpt: "Several environmental groups have sued the Trump administration for allowing oil companies to dump fracking and drilling waste into the waters of Gulf of Mexico, endangering marine species and environment."  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation