Elizabeth Warren to Black Voters: Our Struggles Are Interconnected




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Elizabeth Warren to Black Voters: Our Struggles Are Interconnected 
Senator Elizabeth Warren. (photo: Getty Images)
Associated Press
Excerpt: "One after another, the speakers attacked President Trump's policies as discriminatory, his rhetoric as hateful and his motivations as bigoted."
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Donald Trump. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Donald Trump. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)



Trump Distances Himself From Cohen, Openly Discusses Possibility of Longtime Lawyer 'Flipping'
Melanie Schmitz, ThinkProgress
Schmitz writes: "President Trump both defended and simultaneously distanced himself from attorney Michael Cohen on Saturday, insisting his longtime associate, who is currently under federal investigation and faces possible criminal charges related to work he did for Trump, would never 'flip' on the president to save his own skin."
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Former mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Former mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Giuliani's History Raises Legal Questions for Trump Defense
Josh Gerstein and Darren Samuelsohn, Politico
Excerpt: "As a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, Rudy Giuliani was an active purveyor of pre-election leaks about the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton's emails. As a member of Trump's transition, he played a political role during a period central to Robert Mueller's Russia investigation."
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ICE agents make an arrest. (photo: Getty)
ICE agents make an arrest. (photo: Getty)


ICE Agents Involved in Crash That Killed Two Immigrants Will Not Be Charged
Jorge Rivas, Splinter
Rivas writes: "The Kern County District Attorney's Office in California said this week that it would not be filing criminal charges against two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials involved in a crash that killed two farmworkers."
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Automation replaces jobs faster than we come up with new work for people to do. (photo: ATS)
Automation replaces jobs faster than we come up with new work for people to do. (photo: ATS)

When Robots Take Our Jobs, Platform Cooperatives Are a Solution
Gideon Rosenblatt, YES! Magazine
Rosenblatt writes: "Imagine for a moment that Uber drivers, rather than Uber stockholders, own Uber. That is one way to understand what a platform cooperative is. Uber is a company built on a software platform that connects service providers with customers."
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Some Palestinian children have been tried in absentia, while the majority receive what rights groups call unreasonably harsh sentences. (photo: Shatha Hammad/Al Jazeera)
Some Palestinian children have been tried in absentia, while the majority receive what rights groups call unreasonably harsh sentences. (photo: Shatha Hammad/Al Jazeera)

Palestinian Children Live Life of Hardship in Israeli Lockup
Shatha Hammad, Al Jazeera
Hammad writes: "Omar al-Rimawi has not been home since he was arrested by Israeli troops more than two years ago, but his photos line the walls of the halls and rooms of his home."
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A right whale and a diver. (photo: Brian Skerry/National Geographic)
A right whale and a diver. (photo: Brian Skerry/National Geographic)

These Whales Will Be Extinct in 25 Years, Scientists Say - Unless We Act Now to Save Them
Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post
Kaplan writes: "The crew of the research vessel Shearwater has been out on the water for six frigid hours with almost nothing to show for it."
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