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Mort Rosenblum | Through the Looking Glass, a House of Horrors 
President Donald Trump spoke with lawmakers at the White House on the topic of gun control. (photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Mort Rosenblum, Reader Supported News
Rosenblum writes: "While America's uncouth and unclothed emperor-wannabe fantasized about how he would rush unarmed at a homicidal shooter, China placed imperial robes on Xi Jinping. He is now the world's de facto chairman-for-life."
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Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Getty)
Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Getty)

Jonathan Chait | How Trump's Saturday Night Massacre Might Start With Jeff Sessions
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
Chait writes: "President Trump has spent nearly a year attempting to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the crime of following clear professional ethics by recusing himself from an investigation in which he is personally entangled."
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The former White House communications director Hope Hicks. (photo: AP)
The former White House communications director Hope Hicks. (photo: AP

Hope Is Leaving: The Loneliest Man in Washington Just Got Lonelier
Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
Dovere writes: "The Senate Intelligence Committee has found that a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee leaked to Fox News text messages sent by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), according to a new report."
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National Rifle Association members look over pistols in the Remington display at the 146th NRA annual exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia, 29 April 2017. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty)
National Rifle Association members look over pistols in the Remington display at the 146th NRA annual exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia, 29 April 2017. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty)

Rate of Gun Injuries Drops 20% During NRA Conventions, Study Finds
Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK
McCarthy writes: "The rate of gun injuries in the United States has regularly declined during the National Rifle Association's annual convention, according to a study led by Harvard Medical School and published in the New England Journal of Medicine."
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Pallbearers move the casket of officer Alan Beck. (photo: Getty)
Pallbearers move the casket of officer Alan Beck. (photo: Getty)

Far-Right Extremists Are Quietly Murdering Police Officers
Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress
Barnes writes: "The shootings that stunned the quiet Iowa suburb that November represent just two of the nearly three dozen law enforcement officers in the U.S. who have been killed by far-right extremists in the last 10 years alone."
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Badku Marandi managed to escape the mines. And he is working to help others do so too. (photo: Christian Werner/Zeitenspiegel)
Badku Marandi managed to escape the mines. And he is working to help others do so too. (photo: Christian Werner/Zeitenspiegel)

Suffocating: Children Risk Their Lives in India's Illegal Mica Mines
Anna Behrend, Der Spiegel
Behrend writes: "Mica is a mineral that many companies use to give their products a glimmering sheen. It is what makes lipsticks shimmer and car paint glint, to name two examples. But its origins are anything but beautiful."
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Cars drive through a busy Main Street in Berlin. (photo: Markus Schreiber/AP)
Cars drive through a busy Main Street in Berlin. (photo: Markus Schreiber/AP)

German Court Allows Cities to Institute Diesel Bans
Frank Jordans and David Rising, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Handing environmentalists a landmark victory, a German court ruled Tuesday that cities can ban diesel cars and trucks to combat air pollution, a decision with far-reaching and costly implications in the country where the diesel engine was invented in the 1890s."
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