Top Democrat Adam Schiff Suggests Proof of Trump-Russia Collusion Still to Come

19 February 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News DO NOT LET RSN STRUGGLE FOR BASIC FUNDING - You collectively have the power to ensure that a truly independent voice can stand in opposition to the commercial giants. Drop your drop in the bucket. Don’t wait. - Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Top Democrat Adam Schiff Suggests Proof of Trump-Russia Collusion Still to Come  Edward Helmore, Guardian UK  Helmore writes: "The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee suggested on Monday that Robert Mueller may still present evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, despite last week's indictments stating that such connections relating to those cases were merely 'unwitting.'"  READ MORE Emma Gonzalez. (photo: Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Parkland High School Shooting Survivor Emma Gonzalez's Powerful Speech Demanding Gun Control  Democracy Now!  Excerpt: "Students who survived the shooting have begun organizing a March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., and other cities, March 24th. One of the organizers is Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who survived the shooting. She gave a moving address at the gun control rally in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday."  READ MORE Chrissy Houlahan. (photo: Lebanon Daily News) Women Could Be the Undoing of Donald Trump  The Economist  Excerpt: "Amid the rancour of American politics, the large number of first-time women candidates the Democrats will field is unequivocally positive. Around 400 women, mostly Democrats, are planning to run for the House, at least 50 for the Senate and 79 for governor."  READ MORE Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz. (photo: Gladys Vega/Getty Images) Five Months After Maria, San Juan Mayor Decries "Disaster Capitalism" and Privatization in Puerto Rico  Democracy Now!  Excerpt: "As this week marks five months since Hurricane Maria battered the island of Puerto Rico, more than a quarter of the island remains without power, marking the longest blackout in U.S. history."  READ MORE Police fire pepper spray on protesters during a demonstration after Trump's inauguration. (photo: John Minchillo/AP) Are US Police Working With the Far Right and Neo-Nazis?  Patrick Strickland, Al Jazeera  Strickland writes: "An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation."  READ MORE Rohingyas fleeing violence in Myanmar/Burma. (photo: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters) Myanmar Government 'Bulldozing Rohingya Mass Grave to Hide Evidence'  Emanuel Stoakes, Guardian UK  Stoakes writes: "The government of Myanmar is bulldozing over the site of a Rohingya mass grave in an effort to destroy evidence of a massacre committed last year by the military, according to a rights monitoring group."  READ MORE Portable solar arrays helped power the Oceti Sakowin Camp, which rose on the north end of the Standing Rock Reservation in the summer and fall of 2016 in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Though primarily powered by wood and gasoline, the camps also ran on a great deal of solar. (photo: Saul Elbein) Red Cloud's Revolution: Oglalla Sioux Freeing Themselves From Fossil Fuel  Saul Elbein, Mongabay  Elbein writes: "For more than a decade, Red Cloud has been running Lakota Solar, an off-grid skills school and solar machine factory - one of Pine Ridge's few locally owned business, and the heart of a business network that extends to a dozen other reservations."  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation