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Why Are Democratic Party Thinktanks Still Not Backing Universal Healthcare? 
Bernie Sanders celebrates the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid two years ago. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Adam Gaffney, Guardian UK
Gaffney writes: "The Center for American Progress is inching closer to 'Medicare for All' - but its version leaves some gaping holes."
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Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino attend the Academy Awards. (photo: Kevin Mazur/Wireimage)
Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino attend the Academy Awards. (photo: Kevin Mazur/Wireimage)

Two of Weinstein's Most Vocal Victims Speak Out on the Red Carpet
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino, two actresses reportedly blacklisted by defamed film producer Harvey Weinstein, attended the 90th Academy Awards ceremony as each other's dates Sunday night."
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Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump. (photo: AP)
Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump. (photo: AP)

Donald Trump Promised Malcolm Turnbull Australia Would Be Exempt From Trade Tariffs
Andrew Probyn, ABC News
Probyn writes: "The US tariffs, which have alarmed major exporters such as BlueScope, would impose a 25 per cent tax on imported steel and 10 per cent for aluminium."
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Protesters on both sides of the gun issue clash at the annual Pioneer Valley Sportsman's Association gun show in Wheaton, Ill., on Sunday. (photo: Joshua Lott/AP)
Protesters on both sides of the gun issue clash at the annual Pioneer Valley Sportsman's Association gun show in Wheaton, Ill., on Sunday. (photo: Joshua Lott/AP)

An Illinois Gun Show Bans AR-15 Sales
Mark Guarino, The Washington Post
Guarino writes: "The last place one might expect to hear pushback against the National Rifle Association would be at a gun show here, in a western suburb of Chicago that reliably votes Republican every election cycle and is the proud home of the Billy Graham Center Museum."
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Donna Pollard describes getting married at 16 to a 29-year-old man who was her counselor. She is behind Senate Bill 48 to raise the legal age of marriage in Kentucky to 18 years old. (photo: Matt Stone/Courier Journal)
Donna Pollard describes getting married at 16 to a 29-year-old man who was her counselor. She is behind Senate Bill 48 to raise the legal age of marriage in Kentucky to 18 years old. (photo: Matt Stone/Courier Journal)

Kentucky's 'Child Bride' Bill Stalls as Groups Fight to Let 13-Year-Olds Wed
Deborah Yetter, USA Today
Yetter writes: "A bill to make 18 the legal age for marriage in Kentucky has stalled in a Senate committee amid concerns about the rights of parents to allow children to wed at a younger age, according to several lawmakers."
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A Syrian woman baking bread in a shelter as she seeks protection for her family from airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. (photo: Syrian Damascus Media Center/AP)
A Syrian woman baking bread in a shelter as she seeks protection for her family from airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. (photo: Syrian Damascus Media Center/AP)

In Syria's Ghouta, Shelters Are Tombs for the Living
Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press
El Deeb writes: "There have been many goodbyes in eastern Ghouta - more than 600 in the past two weeks. That is the estimated number of civilians killed in the Syrian military's offensive to recapture the region adjacent to the capital Damascus, under opposition control for nearly six years."
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Sudan interacts with a southern white rhino. (photo: National Geographic)
Sudan interacts with a southern white rhino. (photo: National Geographic)

Survival of Northern White Rhino Hinges on Last Sick Male
Elaina Zachos, National Geographic
Zachos writes: "There are only three northern white rhinos left in the world, and a worsening infection could be getting the best of one of them."
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