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Derek Chauvin Found Guilty of Murdering George Floyd

Robert Mackey

The formal jury of Chauvin’s peers assembled in court reached the same verdict as the dozen bystanders who watched him murder Floyd.

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Wall Street’s Cooked Books Fueled the Financial Crisis in 2008. It’s Happening Again.

Jon Schwarz, Ryan Grim

This time, the issue is not a bubble in the housing market but rather apparent widespread inflation of the value of commercial businesses, on which loans are based.

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Chemical Industry Lobbyist in Trump EPA Suppressed Evidence of Cancer Risk

Sharon Lerner

The EPA inspector general found that Bill Wehrum, who ran the agency’s office of Air and Radiation, buried data about cancer risks from ethylene oxide pollution.

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As Biden Continues Trump’s War on Asylum, Danger Mounts in the Deadly Sonoran Desert

Ryan Devereaux

Dangerous nighttime expulsions are surging in Northern Mexico while organized crime and government security forces prey on stranded asylum-seekers.

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Elizabeth Warren Suggests U.S. Explore Conditional Aid to Israel

Akela Lacy

In a speech, the Massachusetts senator proposed the restriction of military aid from use in occupied Palestine.

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Progressive Groups Fight AT&T and T-Mobile’s New Texting Rules

Rachel M. Cohen

Critics say the rules, known as “10DLC,” will hamper their organizing and worsen private tech overreach.

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Local Cops Said Pipeline Company Had Influence Over Government Appointment

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Sheriffs in Minnesota worried about who would oversee an escrow account, funded by pipeline giant Enbridge, to reimburse the costs of policing protests.

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Monday, April 19, 2021

47 journalists were just laid off at the award-winning news site HuffPost. Last month, news broke that I had been bracing against for years: 47 journalists at HuffPost — many of them former colleagues

Israel May Have Destroyed Iranian Centrifuges Simply by Cutting Power

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

The details of the blackout at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility are scattered — but intriguing. MOST READ Israel May Have Destroyed Iranian Centrifuges Simply by Cutting Power Kim Zetter The details

A Billionaire-Funded Website With Ties to the Far Right Is Trying to “Cancel” University Professors

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Trump's EPA told the chemical corporations to change their numbers — and they did. For more than a decade, communities crammed with chemical plants that produce the carcinogen ethylene oxide have

NYPD “Goon Squad” Manual Teaches Officers to Violate Protesters’ Rights

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Exclusive: Internal NYPD documents shed new light on the Strategic Response Group, or SRG, the heavily militarized police unit behind the crackdown on George Floyd protesters. MOST READ The Democratic

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