RSN: Reality Winner Has Been in Jail for a Year, Her Prosecution Is Unfair and Unprecedented
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Reality Winner Has Been in Jail for a Year, Her Prosecution Is Unfair and Unprecedented
Peter Maass, The Intercept
Maass writes: "The U.S. government rarely acts kindly toward the leakers it chooses to prosecute - unless they happen to be popular figures like David Petraeus, the former general and CIA director who shared with his girlfriend several notebooks filled with top-secret information; he was allowed to plead guilty to just a misdemeanor charge."
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Peter Maass, The Intercept
Maass writes: "The U.S. government rarely acts kindly toward the leakers it chooses to prosecute - unless they happen to be popular figures like David Petraeus, the former general and CIA director who shared with his girlfriend several notebooks filled with top-secret information; he was allowed to plead guilty to just a misdemeanor charge."
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Senator Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders wave to supporters upon taking the stage on the Burlington VT waterfront during the Bernie 2016 presidential announcement, May 26th, 2015. (photo: Arun Chaudhary)
Bernie Sanders: Disney Needs 'Moral Defense' for Having Hungry Workers While Making Billions
Luis Sanchez, The Hill
Sanchez writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) lambasted Walt Disney Co. on Saturday for making billions of dollars in profits while failing to pay workers 'a living wage.'"
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Luis Sanchez, The Hill
Sanchez writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) lambasted Walt Disney Co. on Saturday for making billions of dollars in profits while failing to pay workers 'a living wage.'"
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Betsy DeVos. (photo: Getty Images)
Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education Get Sued for Abandoning Discrimination Complaints
Angela Helm, The Root
Helm writes: "The NAACP is once again taking it to the courts, this time filing a federal lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her Department of Education for abandoning civil rights enforcement regulations, and dismissing hundreds of complaints."
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Angela Helm, The Root
Helm writes: "The NAACP is once again taking it to the courts, this time filing a federal lawsuit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her Department of Education for abandoning civil rights enforcement regulations, and dismissing hundreds of complaints."
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'But although billions have been made from tobacco, cars, and firearms, it's not clear that any of those enterprises has generated a family fortune from a single product that approaches the Sacklers' haul from OxyContin.' (photo: Science History Images/Alamy)
Opioid Epidemic's Origins: Purdue Knew of OxyContin Abuse in 1996 but Covered It Up
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "It was a gift from the FDA. They took that gift, and they ran with it. They told doctors not only that it might be less prone to abuse and addiction, but that it would be less prone to abuse and addiction."
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Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "It was a gift from the FDA. They took that gift, and they ran with it. They told doctors not only that it might be less prone to abuse and addiction, but that it would be less prone to abuse and addiction."
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Planned Parenthood volunteers. (photo: Getty Images)
Arkansas' Planned Parenthood Clinics Cancel Abortions After Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case
Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress
Quinlan writes: "Arkansas patients who needed medication abortions were told they couldn't have them this week. Planned Parenthood had to cancel these appointments after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge of a law that makes Arkansas the only state to effectively ban this method of abortion."
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Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress
Quinlan writes: "Arkansas patients who needed medication abortions were told they couldn't have them this week. Planned Parenthood had to cancel these appointments after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge of a law that makes Arkansas the only state to effectively ban this method of abortion."
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Mexican candidates Juana Irais Maldonado (L) and Pamela Teran (R) were found murdered on June 2, 2018. (photo: Twitter)
Mexico: Three More Female Politicians Murdered in 24 Hours
teleSUR
Excerpt: "At least 105 electoral candidates have been murdered since September, according to Mexico's national police."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "At least 105 electoral candidates have been murdered since September, according to Mexico's national police."
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Some of the plastic bags extracted from a whale's stomach in Thailand. (photo: Reuters)
Whale Dies From Eating More Than 80 Plastic Bags
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "A whale has died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags, with rescuers failing to nurse the mammal back to health."
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Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "A whale has died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags, with rescuers failing to nurse the mammal back to health."
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