Supreme Court Debates Fate of 700,000 DACA Recipients

Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court in Washington while lawyers presented arguments for and against ending the federal DACA program on Tuesday. The Supreme Court heard over an hour and a half of oral arguments that will decide the fate of 700,000 young undocumented migrants under temporary protection from deportation in the Deferred [...]

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There Are 2,000 Untested Chemicals in Packaged Foods—and It’s Legal

This potential scandal is so large, it’s hard to fully comprehend what the implications may be. A major but largely glossed over report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental and public health nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., shows that thousands of untested chemicals (an estimated 2,000, to be exact) are found in conventional [...]

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Palestine Elections Planned, Could Elections Bring Much Needed National Unity?

Palestinian political factions, including the rival major parties Fatah and Hamas, are tentatively calling for general Palestine elections for both the parliament and presidency. In a letter sent by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to all leftist and rightist factions in the occupied Palestinian territories, Abbas instructed the Palestine elections committee, formally called the Central Elections [...]

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Increased Risk of Skin Cancer Tied to Use of Weed Killers

Skin cancer has increased significantly over the past 50 years and now a new study is raising suspicion that weed killers may play a factor. (Beyond Pesticides) Herbicide use is associated with an increased risk of developing cutaneous melanoma, a skin cancer, according to a meta-analysis published last month in the Journal of the European [...]

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Facebook, Google and Amazon Pour Money into Policy Shops As Breakup Debates Rage

Big tech is opening its pocketbooks to fight growing anti-trust and consumer scrutiny. (By Andrew Prez and Tim Zelina, MapLight) With calls for big tech companies to be broken up growing louder, Silicon Valley is flooding think tanks and nonprofits in the nation’s capital with cash. Tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google have spent $33 million on [...]

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Nikki Haley Says Tillerson And Kelly Defied Trump To ‘Save Country’

Nikki Haley’s new book is just one in a series of forthcoming insider accounts from former Trump administration officials. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley claims that two former senior Trump advisers, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and then-White House chief of staff John Kelly, tried to recruit her to subvert the president’s [...]

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Iran Discovers Huge New Oil Fields as US Continues Iranian Oil Sanctions

President Rouhani announced the discovery of a huge new oilfield in Iran, but will Iran have any buyers as U.S. sanctions continue to scare off customers? Standing in the desert city of Yazd, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced the discovery of a new oilfield Sunday in southern Iran with an estimated 50 billion barrels of [...]

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