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Bernie Sanders | Congress, Not Trump, Has the Authority Over War 
Bernie Sanders. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
Bernie Sanders, Foreign Policy
Sanders writes: "On March 20, by a vote of 55-44, the U.S. Senate tabled a resolution that I introduced along with two of my colleagues, Republican Mike Lee of Utah and Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut, calling on the president to withdraw U.S. participation in the war in Yemen."
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Hands typing on a computer keyboard. (photo: hamburg_berlin/Shutterstock)
Hands typing on a computer keyboard. (photo: hamburg_berlin/Shutterstock)

Cambridge Analytica's Work for Trump Campaign and Bolton Super PAC Prompts Complaint to DOJ
Michelle Ye Hee Lee, The Washington Post
Lee writes: "Government watchdog groups on Thursday called for an investigation into whether President Trump's campaign and a super PAC controlled by his new national security adviser conspired with an embattled political data firm to violate elections laws."
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Undocumented immigrants from El Salvador wait to be deported on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation flight bound for San Salvador in Mesa, Arizona. (photo: John Moore/Getty)
Undocumented immigrants from El Salvador wait to be deported on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation flight bound for San Salvador in Mesa, Arizona. (photo: John Moore/Getty)

How Trump Is Quietly Rewriting US Immigration Policy
Tal Kopan, CNN
Kopan writes: "The Trump administration doesn't need Congress to pass a law or make a sweeping regulation to overhaul the US immigration system - it's already doing it through a series of small moves that add up to dramatic change."
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Pathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu, gestures to a diagram showing the gun shot wounds he found on the body of police shooting victim Stephon Clark, during a news conference, March 30, 2018, in Sacramento, California. (photo: Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
Pathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu, gestures to a diagram showing the gun shot wounds he found on the body of police shooting victim Stephon Clark, during a news conference, March 30, 2018, in Sacramento, California. (photo: Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Autopsy Reveals Stephon Clark Was Shot in the Back
Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press
Ronayne writes: "Calls for justice and charges against two police officers who fatally shot an unarmed black man aren't abating in California's capital city after an autopsy showed Stephon Clark was shot in the back, a counter to the department's statement that he was approaching officers when he was killed."
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Detainees stand during an early morning Islamic prayer at the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
Detainees stand during an early morning Islamic prayer at the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

We Asked for Gitmo's Book Policy in 2013. It Arrived This Week, Censored.
Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald
Rosenberg writes: "The U.S. military took more than four years to process a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy of the Guantanamo guidelines for censoring prison library material - and censored the guidelines when it processed the request."
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A protest in Honduras. (photo: DH Noticias)
A protest in Honduras. (photo: DH Noticias)

Honduras: Protests Continue Against Hernandez Re-Election, Detention of 'Political Prisoners'
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Four months after Juan Orlando Hernandez was re-elected as president of Honduras in a dubious election filled with irregularities, the people of Choluteca went out to the streets to demand his resignation, protest the rising cost of living and call for the release of several people they have deemed political prisoners."
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A sinkhole in Texas. (photo: Mark Gormus/AP)
A sinkhole in Texas. (photo: Mark Gormus/AP)

Oil and Gas Drilling Blamed for Sinkholes Threatening to Swallow Parts of Texas
Josh Gabbatiss, The Independent
Gabbatiss writes: "Oil and gas extraction in west Texas is causing the formation of massive sinkholes, according to a new study."
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