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Jessica Valenti | The US Is Ripping Immigrants' Families Apart. That's Torture 

Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK
Valenti writes: "What parents - and their children - face as Ice agents seek to punish undocumented people is beyond cruelty."
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Donald Trump and Steve Bannon in the Oval Office. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

How Trump Uses Conspiracy Theories Like 'Spygate'
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Last week, President Trump promoted new, unconfirmed accusations to suit his political narrative: that a 'criminal deep state' element within Mr. Obama's government planted a spy deep inside his presidential campaign to help his rival, Hillary Clinton, win - a scheme he branded 'Spygate.'"
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Nancy Pelosi. (photo: Anne Epstein/Getty Images)

California's "Top Two" Primary Chaos, Explained
Andrew Prokop, Vox
Prokop writes: "California's primary elections on June 5 will be one of the most consequential - and one of the most bizarre - contests of the entire primary season."
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Aaron Wright, 55, said his rental home in the Kashmere Gardens neighborhood of Houston suffered catastrophic damage during Harvey. Nearly every street of the 10,000-person community has gutted homes. (photo: M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

Washington Fails Low-Income Hurricane Victims
Danny Vinik, Politico
Vinik writes: "A POLITICO investigation found that numerous low-income families were denied funding from FEMA because much of Kashmere Gardens was in a flood zone, and homeowners were thus required to carry flood insurance."
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1968: A Look Back at the My Lai Massacre, MLK's Assassination, Columbia Protests and Catonsville Nine
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Today, in this Democracy Now! special, we go back 50 years, to 1968, a pivotal year in modern American history."
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FARC rebels. (photo: Newsgram)

11 FARC Dissidents Killed in Colombian Military Operation
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Colombian troops killed 11 dissidents of the disbanded FARC guerrilla group, officials said Monday, as a fight looms over the future of a 2016 peace agreement in runoff presidential elections."
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The paper mill in Dryden, Ontario, is located upstream from Grassy Narrows. A former owner of the mill operated a chemical plant on the site that dumped 9,000 kg of mercury into the water in the 1960s and '70s. (photo: Ed Ou/CBC)

Canada: Indigenous People Suffer From Toxic River, Report Says
Daniel Lak, Al Jazeera
Lak writes: "The toxic effects of mercury dumped in a river in Canada continue to harm indigenous communities five decades on."
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