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Bill McKibben | Some Rare Good Climate News: The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Weaker Than Ever
Bill McKibben, Grist
McKibben writes: "If you're looking for good news on the climate front, don't look to the Antarctic. Last week's spate of studies documenting that its melt rates had tripled is precisely the kind of data that underscores the almost impossible urgency of the moment."
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Bill McKibben, Grist
McKibben writes: "If you're looking for good news on the climate front, don't look to the Antarctic. Last week's spate of studies documenting that its melt rates had tripled is precisely the kind of data that underscores the almost impossible urgency of the moment."
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Children at the border. (photo: AP)
Trump Calls for Deportations Without Judicial Process
Jacqueline Thomsen, The Hill
Thomsen writes: "President Trump on Sunday called for immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. to be sent 'back from where they came' without going through the judicial process in deportation cases."
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Jacqueline Thomsen, The Hill
Thomsen writes: "President Trump on Sunday called for immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. to be sent 'back from where they came' without going through the judicial process in deportation cases."
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Expert: Sarah Sanders Broke Ethics Laws With Tweet About Restaurant Ejection
Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly writes: "A tweet by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders about her ejection from a Virginia restaurant on Friday broke federal ethics rules, a leading expert said."
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Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly writes: "A tweet by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders about her ejection from a Virginia restaurant on Friday broke federal ethics rules, a leading expert said."
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Donald Trump and Neil Gorsuch. (photo: Getty Images)
Gorsuch Says He'll Repeal and Replace the Fourth Amendment With Something Terrific
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Gorsuch's dissenting opinion in Carpenter v. United States is an odd piece of writing. It reads less like a judicial opinion and more like the sort of essay that an overworked law professor might toss off after they suddenly realize that they have a symposium paper due at the end of the week."
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Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Gorsuch's dissenting opinion in Carpenter v. United States is an odd piece of writing. It reads less like a judicial opinion and more like the sort of essay that an overworked law professor might toss off after they suddenly realize that they have a symposium paper due at the end of the week."
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Voting equipment vendor ES&S invited state and county election officials to join an 'advisory board' and treated them to trips to Las Vegas and elsewhere, an arrangement that drew criticism from ethics watchdogs. (photo: David Goldman/AP)
Voting Machine Vendor Treated Election Officials to Trips to Vegas, Elsewhere
Greg Gordon, Amy Renee Leiker, Jamie Self and Stanley Dunlap, McClatchy DC
Excerpt: "The unusual practice, which has not previously been reported, offers a glimpse of one way in which a voting equipment manufacturer has sought to cement relationships with government officials, some of whom play roles in the award of millions of dollars in contracts."
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Greg Gordon, Amy Renee Leiker, Jamie Self and Stanley Dunlap, McClatchy DC
Excerpt: "The unusual practice, which has not previously been reported, offers a glimpse of one way in which a voting equipment manufacturer has sought to cement relationships with government officials, some of whom play roles in the award of millions of dollars in contracts."
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Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan celebrate at the AK party headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, April 16, 2017. (photo: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)
Turkey's Vote Counting: Political System to Transform From Parliamentary to Executive Presidential
Selcan Hacaoglu, Firat Kozok, and Ben Holland, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "Hours into Sunday's presidential election, Turkey's main opposition parties complained that voting has been marred by irregularities to favor incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan."
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Selcan Hacaoglu, Firat Kozok, and Ben Holland, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "Hours into Sunday's presidential election, Turkey's main opposition parties complained that voting has been marred by irregularities to favor incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan."
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Scott Pruitt. (photo: AP)
2 Years After Reform Act, Pruitt's EPA Has Failed to Protect Us From Toxic Chemicals
Melanie Benesh, Environmental Working Group
Benesh writes: "The updated TSCA is supposed to regulate thousands of chemicals used industrially and also in an array of consumer products like paint, cleaning products, mattresses, clothes, insulation and more. But under Administrator Scott Pruitt's leadership, the Environmental Protection Agency has taken every opportunity to undermine, not enhance, chemical safety."
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Melanie Benesh, Environmental Working Group
Benesh writes: "The updated TSCA is supposed to regulate thousands of chemicals used industrially and also in an array of consumer products like paint, cleaning products, mattresses, clothes, insulation and more. But under Administrator Scott Pruitt's leadership, the Environmental Protection Agency has taken every opportunity to undermine, not enhance, chemical safety."
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