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Scott Pruitt: We Need More Proof Global Warming Exists; That Earth’s Basically Melting Is Not Enough
Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, showed that he is everything we feared he would be Thursday when he got on television and basically denied that climate change exists. The Washington Post reports that Pruitt’s comments on the CNBC program Squawk Box “outraged scientists, environmentalists, and even his immediate predecessor” at…
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Hawaii and Ore. Join Wash. and Minn. in Legal Challenge Against Trump’s Travel Ban
The states of Hawaii and Oregon joined Washington and Minnesota on Thursday in their legal challenge against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, which goes into effect March 16, and the states of New York and Massachusetts have said they will join the challenge, too. The Washington Post reports that Hawaii filed a lawsuit against…
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#NoDAPL: Police in Wash. State Win Warrant to Search Content of Protest Facebook Page
Local police in Washington state have been granted a warrant to search the Facebook page of a group dedicated to protesting the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Department in Bellingham, Wash., obtained the warrant, which seeks to collect data surrounding the Bellingham #NoDAPL Coalition’s Facebook page, which, as…
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Bill Clinton: Worldwide Nationalism Is ‘Taking Us to the Edge of Our Destruction’
Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday that the nationalism movement that has engulfed politics in America as well as other countries around the world is part of a more insidious and interconnected movement to institutionalize separatism and division around the world. Politico reports that Clinton was giving a keynote speech at an event hosted by…
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L.A. District Attorney Again Declines to Press Charges Against Officer Who Fatally Shot Unarmed Man
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has once again decided not to pursue charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man after a car chase in March 2015, even though the city’s Police Commission determined that the shooting was unjustified. In a seven-page memo (pdf) that was made public…
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House Republicans Release Long-Awaited Obamacare Replacement Plan
The wait is finally over. House Republicans have finally released their master plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known (to the shock of millions) as Obamacare, in the form of two bills that would replace federal insurance subsidies with individual tax credits and grants to help states create their own policies.…
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TSA Agents May Be Getting a Little Closer to Airline Passengers During Security Pat-Downs
The next time you go through airport security, you may be getting felt up in an entirely different way by Transportation Security Administration agents if you decide to opt out of electronic screening and have to undergo the new full pat-down. The Washington Post reports that the new pat-downs are apparently so intrusive, the TSA…
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Supreme Court Decides Not to Hear Gavin Grimm’s Transgender Bathroom Case After All
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court said it would not hear the case of a transgender Virginia teen fighting to use the bathroom of his choice in school, reversing an earlier decision to hear the case on March 28. NBC News reports that in addition to deciding not to hear the case of Gavin Grimm,…
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#Flint: Mayor Says Mich. City Will Not Be Able to Treat Its Own Water for Another 2 Years
It has been over 1,000 days since the people of Flint, Mich., had clean water, and now the city’s mayor is telling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that because of the lengthy construction and testing process for a new water-treatment plant, it will be another two years before the city can treat its own water…
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13-Year-Old in Los Angeles Records the Moment Immigration Agents Arrest Her Father as He Is Taking Her to School
A 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles recorded the heartbreaking moment when immigration officials arrested her father, an undocumented immigrant, as he was taking her to school this week. ABC News reports that 48-year-old Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez was on his way to drop his daughters off at Academia Avance in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles…
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