Jill Abramson | Trump's Feud With Amazon Is Really About the Washington Post's Success

06 April 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Jill Abramson | Trump's Feud With Amazon Is Really About the Washington Post's Success  Jill Abramson, Guardian UK Abramson writes: "The paper owned by Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, has relentlessly investigated the president and Trump is out for revenge." READ MORE Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency faced career repercussions after questioning the spending of its administrator, Scott Pruitt, center. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP) EPA Officials Sidelined After Questioning Scott Pruitt Eric Lipton, Kenneth P. Vogel and Lisa Friedman, The New York Times Excerpt: "At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management of the agency's administrator, Scott Pruitt." READ MORE Attorney General Jeff Sessions attends a law enforcement roundtable on sanctuary cities held by President Donald Trump, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty) Jeff Sessions Wants Prosecutors to Seek the Death Penalty Against Big Drug Dealers, Including Legal Marijuana Business Owners John Ingold and Alicia Wallace, The Denver Post Ingold and Wallace write: "A little-known federal law makes it possible to execute people who grow more than 60,000 marijuana plants." READ MORE A mourner pays tribute to a victim of the shooting in Parkland, Florida. (photo: Reuters) US Interest in Concealed Carry Jumps 100% After Parkland: 'We've Never Seen a Spike This Big Before' Clark Mindock, The Independent Mindock writes: "The number of Americans interested in obtaining concealed carry permits to secretly bear arms in public has jumped dramatically since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February - with some states having seen as much as a 250 per cent increase in training requests for this type of permit." READ MORE Hundreds gather in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to condemn the police shooting of unarmed black man Saheed Vassell. (photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters) NYPD Shoots and Kills Mentally Ill Black Man Who Pointed a Pipe at Them Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress Pyke writes: "New York Police Department officers shot and killed a 34-year-old black man they believed was pointing a gun at people in Crown Heights Wednesday. The object in his hand was actually a piece of silver pipe with a knob at one end." READ MORE New York police and Muslims. (photo: Getty) Muslim Americans Win Landmark Victory Against the NYPD's Secret Post-9/11 Spying Program Emma Roller, Splinter Roller writes: "Muslim Americans won a hard-fought victory on Thursday against the New York Police Department over what advocates say was a discriminatory surveillance program implemented in secret after the Sept. 11 terror attacks." READ MORE Mountain top removal coal mines in Blair County, West Virginia. (photo: Orjan F. Ellingvag/Getty) Less Than a Quarter of the Earth Has Escaped 'Substantial Impacts' by Humans Agence France-Presse Excerpt: "Land degradation will unleash a mass migration of at least 50 million people by 2050 - as many as 700 million unless humans stop depleting the life-giving resource, more than 100 scientists warned Monday." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation