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Man arrested after expressing interest in committing mass shooting, FBI says

Man arrested after expressing interest in committing mass shooting, FBI says

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CNN reports: Connecticut authorities arrested a man who they said was interested in committing a mass shooting, had weapons and tactical gear, and made his intentions known on Facebook. Brandon Wagshol, 22, was detained Thursday after a tip from a citizen that he was trying to buy large capacity rifle magazines from out of state, the FBI and the Norwalk Police Department said. Wagshol has been charged with four counts of illegal possession of large capacity magazines, and is being…

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Man arrested in Florida for threatening to open fire on large crowd of people

Man arrested in Florida for threatening to open fire on large crowd of people

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CNN reports: A Florida man has been charged for threatening to commit a mass shooting after his ex-girlfriend alerted authorities to a series of ominous text messages he sent her. 25-year-old Tristan Scott Wix was arrested on Friday in a Winn-Dixie parking lot in Daytona Beach Shores, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. [Continue reading…]

India plans big detention camps for migrants. Muslims are afraid

India plans big detention camps for migrants. Muslims are afraid

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The New York Times reports: More than four million people in India, mostly Muslims, are at risk of being declared foreign migrants as the government pushes a hard-line Hindu nationalist agenda that has challenged the country’s pluralist traditions and aims to redefine what it means to be Indian. The hunt for migrants is unfolding in Assam, a poor, hilly state near the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh. Many of the people whose citizenship is now being questioned were born in…

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UK faces food, fuel, and drug shortages in a no-deal Brexit, leaked official documents say

UK faces food, fuel, and drug shortages in a no-deal Brexit, leaked official documents say

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Business Insider reports: Britain faces shortages of fresh food, fuel, and medicine in the increasingly likely event that it leaves the EU without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked to the Sunday Times show. The Times said the forecasts compiled by the Cabinet Office set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than the worst case scenarios. The dossier, known as “Operation Yellowhammer”, is thought to be…

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Echoes of al Qaeda: Neo-Nazi group, ‘The Base,’ training fellow white supremacists

Echoes of al Qaeda: Neo-Nazi group, ‘The Base,’ training fellow white supremacists

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Vice News reports: A neo-Nazi group focused on providing paramilitary-style training to far-right extremists has been conducting a massive recruitment drive and claims to have already conducted live-fire training with its members. The Base, which is connected to extreme-right groups the Atomwaffen Division and the Feuerkrieg Division, has been promoting its growth on social media with photos announcing its presence in major cities across North America, including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle, and in Europe, South Africa, and Australia….

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Stephen Miller’s grip on the Trump anti-immigrant agenda

Stephen Miller’s grip on the Trump anti-immigrant agenda

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The New York Times reports: When historians try to explain how opponents of immigration captured the Republican Party, they may turn to the spring of 2007, when President George W. Bush threw his waning powers behind a legalization plan and conservative populists buried it in scorn. Mr. Bush was so taken aback, he said he worried about America “losing its soul,” and immigration politics have never been the same. That spring was significant for another reason, too: An intense young…

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Black Americans have fought to make our democracy’s founding ideals true

Black Americans have fought to make our democracy’s founding ideals true

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Nikole Hannah-Jones writes: My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a perpetual state of disrepair, but that flag always flew pristine. Our corner lot, which had been redlined by the federal government, was along the river that divided the black side from the white side of our Iowa town. At the edge…

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‘Kochland’ examines the Koch brothers’ early, crucial role in climate-change denial

‘Kochland’ examines the Koch brothers’ early, crucial role in climate-change denial

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Jane Mayer writes: If there is any lingering uncertainty that the Koch brothers are the primary sponsors of climate-change doubt in the United States, it ought to be put to rest by the publication of “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America,” by the business reporter Christopher Leonard. This seven-hundred-and-four-page tome doesn’t break much new political ground, but it shows the extraordinary behind-the-scenes influence that Charles and David Koch have exerted to cripple government action…

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The last days of Jeffrey Epstein

The last days of Jeffrey Epstein

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The New York Times reports: Jeffrey Epstein, inmate 76318-054, hated his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. It was cramped, dank and infested with vermin, so Mr. Epstein, long accustomed to using his wealth to play by his own rules, devised a way out. He paid numerous lawyers to visit the jail for as many as 12 hours a day, giving him the right to see them in a private meeting room. Mr. Epstein was there for so long that…

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A world spiraling towards chaos, mirrors Trump’s erratic, amoral and incompetent foreign policy

A world spiraling towards chaos, mirrors Trump’s erratic, amoral and incompetent foreign policy

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Michelle Goldberg writes: Earlier this week, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan, visited The New York Times editorial board, and I asked him about the threat of armed conflict between his country and India over Kashmir. India and Pakistan have already fought two wars over the Himalayan territory, which both countries claim, and which is mostly divided between them. India recently revoked the constitutionally guaranteed autonomy of the part of Kashmir it controls and put nearly seven…

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How Elizabeth Warren went from a regulation critic to Wall Street watchdog

How Elizabeth Warren went from a regulation critic to Wall Street watchdog

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CNN reports: Long before Elizabeth Warren became one of the nation’s leading progressive voices, she was an academic who articulated a conservative worldview on the economy. As a law professor in the 1980s and 1990s, Warren criticized the overabundance of government regulations, calling them “a tax,” and spoke to conservative legal groups like the Federalist Society and the Manhattan Institute, a CNN KFile review of Warren’s academic research, interviews and speeches in this period found. The material, including Warren’s previously…

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Honoring and empowering tribal nations and indigenous peoples

Honoring and empowering tribal nations and indigenous peoples

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Elizabeth Warren writes: In 2003, the United States Commission on Civil Rights released a report on the state of federal support for Indian Country. The report detailed the chronic failure of the federal government to provide the resources necessary to fulfill its promises to Native Americans, and noted that, as a result, “Native Americans continue to rank at or near the bottom of nearly every social, health, and economic indicator.” In December of last year, the Civil Rights Commission released…

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Ilhan Omar is already changing Washington

Ilhan Omar is already changing Washington

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Emily Tamkin writes: This week, Donald Trump opened a new front in his war against women of color in Congress. “It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit,” the president tweeted Thursday morning, referring to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two young Muslim Democrats who make up half of the progressive congressional “squad” that Trump last month wished would “go back” to “the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”…

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‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants

‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants

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Citing scripture and church teachings, ever more Christians are pushing progressive policy positions based in their faith. Shutterstock By Laura E. Alexander, University of Nebraska Omaha Holding pictures of migrant children who have died in U.S. custody and forming a cross with their bodies on the floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, 70 Catholics were arrested in July for obstructing a public place, which is considered a misdemeanor. The protesters hoped that images of 90-year-old nuns and priests in…

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Trump’s interest in buying Greenland seen by Denmark as ‘final proof that he has gone mad’

Trump’s interest in buying Greenland seen by Denmark as ‘final proof that he has gone mad’

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Reuters reports: Greenland on Friday dismissed the notion that it might be up for sale after reports that U.S. President Donald Trump had privately discussed with his advisers the idea of buying the world’s biggest island. “We are open for business, but we’re not for sale,” Greenland’s foreign minister Ane Lone Bagger told Reuters. Trump is due to visit Copenhagen in September and the Arctic will be on the agenda during meetings with the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland,…

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AIPAC splits with Trump and Netanyahu, backs visit by Omar and Tlaib to Israel

AIPAC splits with Trump and Netanyahu, backs visit by Omar and Tlaib to Israel

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CNN reports: The prominent pro-Israel group American Israel Public Affairs Committee suggested Thursday it opposed a move by Israel — and supported by President Donald Trump — to bar Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country. AIPAC, which advocates for a staunch alliance between the US and Israel, has frequently sided with Trump administration policies that have supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, making its opposition especially notable. “We disagree with Reps. Omar and Tlaib’s…

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