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Matt Taibbi | Trump's CIA Pick Took Part in Silencing Torture Suspect 
Trump's pick for CIA chief, Gina Haspel CIA. (image: CIA/Rolling Stone)
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "An ACLU lawsuit suggests the president's nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, has a questionable attitude toward due process."
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Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix leaves the company's offices in central London on Tuesday. He was suspended amid a controversy about the company's use of social media data. (photo: Dominic Lipinski/AP)
Cambridge Analytica Chief Executive Alexander Nix leaves the company's offices in central London on Tuesday. He was suspended amid a controversy about the company's use of social media data. (photo: Dominic Lipinski/AP)

In Hidden-Camera Exposé, Cambridge Analytica Executives Boast of Role in Trump Win
Scott Neuman, NPR 
Neuman writes: "Top executives at Cambridge Analytica, the U.K.-based firm embroiled in a controversy over the mining of Facebook user data, have been secretly recorded describing the stealthy methods they used to help get Donald Trump elected."
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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. (photo: Reuters)
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. (photo: Reuters)








Carol D. Leonnig, David Nakamura and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers Tuesday when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection - including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating 'DO NOT CONGRATULATE,' according to officials familiar with the call."
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David Hogg, Parkland shooting survivor and teen activist. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
David Hogg, Parkland shooting survivor and teen activist. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

March for Our Lives: Gun Control Protest Takes Over Washington, DC, Cities Around the US
Jen Kirby, Vox News
Kirby writes: "The survivors of the Parkland shooting spearheaded the March for Our Lives. Coming on the heels of the walkout on March 14, it is another early sign that this renewed push for gun reform is gathering strength."
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Rev. Zach Hoover wants to help immigrant families fearing deportation stay hidden and together. (photo: CNN)
Rev. Zach Hoover wants to help immigrant families fearing deportation stay hidden and together. (photo: CNN)

Underground Network Readies Homes to Hide Undocumented Immigrants
Kyung Lah, Alberto Moya and Mallory Simon, CNN
Excerpt: "The intent is to shelter hundreds, possibly thousands of undocumented people in safe houses across Southern California."
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President of El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, and the then-mayor of San Salvador, Nayib Bukele, during a meeting on cooperation issues between the central government and the capital city, May 7, 2015. (photo: Presidencia El Salvador/Wikimedia)
President of El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, and the then-mayor of San Salvador, Nayib Bukele, during a meeting on cooperation issues between the central government and the capital city, May 7, 2015. (photo: Presidencia El Salvador/Wikimedia)

El Salvador's Left in Crisis
Hilary Goodfriend, Jacobin
Goodfriend writes: "In the wake of an electoral rout and growing internal divisions, El Salvador's left is facing its starkest crisis in decades."
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The funeral of Efigenia Vasquez in Colombia last year. Almost four defenders were murdered every week in 2017. (photo: Tom Laffay/Guardian)
The funeral of Efigenia Vasquez in Colombia last year. Almost four defenders were murdered every week in 2017. (photo: Tom Laffay/Guardian

We Must Honor Lost Land Defenders by Fighting the System Which Killed Them
Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz, Guardian UK
Muñoz writes: "These killings are designed to silence and break the frontlines of the struggles against corporate power, catastrophic climate change and the unlimited extraction of the world's natural resources."
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