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• Police fatally shoot alleged Florida car burglar

  22-05-2016 23:45 via salon.com
  HALLANDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Hallandale Beach police officer fatally shot a man they said tried to flee from authorities while they were investigating reports of car burglaries.
  Police were called early Sunday after reports of possible car break-ins and a suspicious person looking into cars with a flashlight in a residential neighborhood filled with condos. Police found two men sitting in a car. The driver, 27-year-old Michael Eugene Wilson, attempted to speed away and Major Sonia Quinones sa
  
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• Nobel author Garcia Marquez’s ashes returned to Colombia

  22-05-2016 23:40 via salon.com
  
  CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — The ashes of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez have been laid to rest in the historic Caribbean port city of Cartagena, Colombia, where he began his writing career.
  On Sunday, members of Garcia Marquez’s family were joined by friends and local dignitaries in dedicating a bronze bust of the author in a colonial-era cloister in the city.
  The bust sits atop a commemorative stone holding part of Garcia Marquez’s ashes. The rest of the as
  
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• 10 Things to Know for Monday

  22-05-2016 23:38 via salon.com
  
  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:
  1. WHY TALIBAN LEADER’S DEATH IS SEEN AS HOPEFUL SIGN
  Some view the killing of Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour as a game-changer in efforts to end the long insurgent war plaguing Afghanistan.
  2. WHAT OBAMA LOOKS TO ACCOMPLISH IN ASIA
  The president arrives in Vietnam intent on building stronger economic and security ties with Asian-Pacific allies nervous about the rise of China.
  3. IRAQ L
  
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• Colombia military searching for missing Spanish journalist

  22-05-2016 23:10 via salon.com
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s military has launched a search for a Spanish journalist amid media reports she went missing in a lawless area dominated by leftist rebels and drug-trafficking groups.
  Salud Hernandez-Mora is longtime correspondent in Colombia for Spain’s El Mundo and an influential columnist for the Bogota daily El Tiempo.
  El Tiempo said Sunday that she was on assignment in El Tarra in the volatile Catatumbo region of northern Colombia when she went missing.
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• CBS is the GOP of TV: The network’s Year of White Men coincides all too well with the rise of Donald Trump

  22-05-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump; "The Big Bang Theory"(Credit: Reuters/L.E. Baskow/CBS/Salon)
  Earlier this week, when announcing broadcast giant CBS’s upcoming programming for the fall, Deadline reported a little piece of gossip that, intentionally or not, sent shock waves through the Internet. Hold on, though: It’s difficult to explain without a bit of context.
  This entire week has been one of studios, broadcast networks, and cable channels meeting with their advertisers, new and old, to announce whic
  
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• We all made this monster: Donald Trump is a product of America’s hollowed-out democracy

  22-05-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson)The election news is all about Trump, 24/7, but the crisis that has made his victory a possibility and that would bring tyrannical folly in its wake it isn’t about Trump. It’s about what is happening to the American people.
  What is happening to us is something that Trump embodies perfectly, in all its populist vulgarity. But no populist rhetoric of democracy can hide the truth that what’s happening to us is what’s being done to
  
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• Officials: Suspect in fatal shooting of Massachusetts police officer killed during shootout, state police trooper also injured

  22-05-2016 21:26 via salon.com
  AUBURN, Mass. (AP) — Officials: Suspect in fatal shooting of Massachusetts police officer killed during shootout, state police trooper also injured.
  
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• 6 dead in pair of nightclub shootings on Mexico’s Gulf coast

  22-05-2016 21:09 via salon.com
  
  VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — A total of six men were killed early Sunday in shootings at two nightclubs in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, authorities said.
  The state prosecutor’s office said three gunmen opened fire from the deejay’s booth at four men sitting at a table in the La Madame club, killing them all. About a dozen people were wounded in that attack in the Veracruz state capital of Xalapa.
  In the other incident, two men died in a gunfight with law enforcement officers at
  
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• California bus crash leaves dozens injured, 2 critically

  22-05-2016 20:49 via salon.com
  
  HIGHLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a shuttle bus has overturned on a highway in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, leaving two people critically injured, four with moderate injuries and 20 with minor injuries.
  San Bernardino County Fire Capt. Jeremy Kern says the bus turned on to its side across State Route 330 shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday.
  Kern says two patients were airlifted to hospitals, and four more with moderate injuries were taken to hospitals in ground ambul
  
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• Couple credits cat with alerting to fire in Vegas-area home

  22-05-2016 20:39 via salon.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-area couple is crediting their cat to alerting them to a fire in their home.
  KTNV-TV in Las Vegas reports (http://bit.ly/243x7kx) that a fire broke out at a home in the Summerlin community around 2 a.m. Sunday.
  The husband and wife told fire officials they were asleep when they got woken up by the cat scratching kitchen cabinets.
  The husband says he went to check on the cat and found a fire in the garage.
  They immediately called 911 and evacuated the home with
  
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• Garcia beats Koepka with par on first playoff hole at Nelson

  22-05-2016 20:38 via salon.com
  
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — Sergio Garcia made a par on the first playoff hole at the Byron Nelson on Sunday to beat Brooks Koepka for his ninth career PGA Tour victory, matching the late Seve Ballesteros for the most by a Spanish-born player.
  The 36-year-old Garcia shot 2-under 68, making six birdies and four bogeys, to get to 15-under 265. He was two groups ahead of the final pairing of hometown favorite Jordan Spieth and Koepka, who bogeyed the 14th and 15th holes and just missed a birdie chan
  
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• Shazam the BBMAs Tonight to Win Tickets to “Piece Of Me“!

  22-05-2016 20:33
  Tune in to the Billboard Music Awards TONIGHT to catch Britney perform a medley of her greatest hits!Get ready to Shazam when Britneys on stage! Shazam her performance for a chance to win two tickets to see Piece Of Me in Vegas.Watch the live show at 8pm ET/5pm PT on ABC!From www.britneyspears.com
  
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• On my way, #BBMAs 🎉 See you tonight!! Tune in to ABC at 8pm ET/5pm PT. https://t.co/QJR0VMP420

  22-05-2016 20:28 via twitter.com
  
  On my way, #BBMAs 🎉 See you tonight!! Tune in to ABC at 8pm ET/5pm PT. https://t.co/QJR0VMP420
  
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• And PS… you can @Shazam my performance tonight to win 2 tickets to #PieceOfMe in Vegas!

  22-05-2016 20:28 via twitter.com
  And PS… you can @Shazam my performance tonight to win 2 tickets to #PieceOfMe in Vegas!
  
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• Hinchcliffe passes Newgarden on final run for Indy 500 pole

  22-05-2016 20:18 via salon.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — James Hinchcliffe completed his remarkable comeback Sunday by beating out American Josef Newgarden for this the Indianapolis 500 pole.
  The Canadian driver earned his first IndyCar pole with a four-lap average of 230.760 mph a year after a life-threatening leg injury forced him out of the race.
  Newgarden will start second in the May 29 race after going 230.700. It was the fourth-closest differential between first and second in Indy’s 100-year history.
  Hinchcliffe w
  
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• Iraqi prime minister announces start of military operations to retake IS-held city of Fallujah

  22-05-2016 20:14 via salon.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi prime minister announces start of military operations to retake IS-held city of Fallujah.
  
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• Massive Navajo farm heads into week 2 with no irrigation

  22-05-2016 20:08 via salon.com
  
  The largest farm on the Navajo Nation has been without water for more than a week after a pipeline break, endangering food crops worth millions of dollars and threatening jobs.
  Most of the crops on the land managed by the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry near Farmington, New Mexico, were planted just before the concrete pipe failed, cutting off water to 72,000 acres of farmland. Officials have pegged June 11 as the date to have repairs completed, with water flowing through a canal system da
  
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• Verdict expected Monday in Freddie Gray-officer trial

  22-05-2016 20:02 via salon.com
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge is preparing to hand down his verdict in the case of a Baltimore police officer charged in the arrest and subsequent death of Freddie Gray.
  Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams is expected to announce a verdict in Officer Edward Nero’s case on Monday.
  The 30-year-old faces assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges.
  Gray died last year, a week after his neck was broken while he was handcuffed and shackled, but unrestrained, in the back
  
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• Protests in Brazil’s 2 biggest cities against acting leader

  22-05-2016 19:27 via salon.com
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Brazil’s two biggest cities Sunday to protest acting President Michel Temer, trying to keep up pressure on his interim administration only 10 days after he was sworn in.
  A march in Sao Paulo headed toward Temer’s residence, but police blocked roads near the house and the interim president left for the capital of Brasilia hours earlier. Organizers estimated 2,000 people participated in the demonstration.
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• Physical intensity picks up between Cavaliers and Raptors

  22-05-2016 19:27 via salon.com
  TORONTO (AP) — DeMar DeRozan remembers the angry emotions Raptors teammate Bismack Biyombo once stirred in him as an opponent.
  “I hated him,” DeRozan said Sunday.
  The Cavaliers likely feel a little anger toward Biyombo after his pivotal performance Saturday, when he helped stop Cleveland’s 10-0 start to the playoffs in Toronto’s 99-84 victory in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals. Game 4 is Monday night at Air Canada Centre.
  Biyombo hauled down a Raptors’
  
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• 12-year-old Sacramento student ready to start university

  22-05-2016 19:25 via salon.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A 12-year-old Sacramento student who already has three college degrees and has been accepted to two University of California campuses says he plans on studying biomedical engineering and becoming a doctor and medical researcher by the time he turns 18.
  Tanishq Abraham tells Sacramento television station CBS 13 (http://cbsloc.al/1qDdGlD) he has been accepted to UC Davis and received a regents scholarship to UC Santa Cruz, but he has yet to decide which university h
  
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• No bail for man accused of dumping wife’s corpse on lawn

  22-05-2016 18:50 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man is being held without bail after police say he killed his wife and then wheeled her body around before dumping it on the front lawn of a Staten Island home.
  Thirty-one-year-old Anthony Lopez pleaded not guilty to a murder charge during an arraignment Sunday in state Supreme Court on Staten Island. The medical examiner’s office says 26-year-old Aduba Obiamaka died of ligature strangulation.
  District Attorney Michael McMahon says domestic violence may hav
  
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• Despite confusion, NASCAR got a memorable All-Star Race

  22-05-2016 18:48 via salon.com
  
  Kyle Larson (42) and Joey Logano, right, race along the front stretch during the NASCAR All-Star auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Saturday, May 21, 2016. Logano won the race. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (Credit: AP)
  CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Say this about NASCAR’s confusing and chaotic Sprint All-Star Race: At least it was entertaining.
  The latest running of NASCAR’s annual showcase was lambasted by drivers and fans for its new format, yet it still produced one o
  
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• 7-year-old boy wakes up dad, pair escapes house fire

  22-05-2016 17:51 via salon.com
  COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Orange County say a 7-year-old boy didn’t hesitate when he smelled smoke at his home, waking up his sleeping father so the pair could escape a spreading fire.
  The Orange County Register says (http://bit.ly/1WL0nhp) the boy was getting ready for bed Saturday night when he smelled smoke and saw that the garage of his Costa Mesa home was engulfed in flames.
  Fire Captain Chris Coates says the boy ran to wake his father, who had fallen asleep watch
  
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• Boston’s Bradley extends hitting streak to 27 games

  22-05-2016 17:46 via salon.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Jackie Bradley Jr. of the Boston Red Sox has extended his hitting streak to 27 games.
  Bradley singled in the fifth inning Sunday against Cleveland at Fenway Park.
  Dom DiMaggio set the Red Sox record with a 34-game streak in 1949. DiMaggio’s brother, Joe, owns the longest streak in major league history at 56 games.
  
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• Long-forgotten Edmund Tarbell painting restored

  22-05-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A long-forgotten painting by American impressionist Edmund C. Tarbell has been restored just in time for a retrospective of the artist’s work.
  “Woman With an Oar and a Gentleman” joined the exhibit at the Discover Portsmouth visitors’ center on Friday after months of restoration work.
  Art conservationist Jeremy Fogg says the canvas likely was rolled up and put aside more than 100 years ago. After members of Tarbell’s family found it, Fogg
  
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• Greece passes omnibus reform bill to comply with bailout

  22-05-2016 17:36 via salon.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliament has passed an omnibus reform bill providing for tax hikes, more austerity reforms and a new privatization superfund, which will manage almost all state property.
  There was one small dent in the left-led government majority of 153 lawmakers in the 300-member Parliament, with one Syriza party MP voting against the superfund and the contingency mechanism that will trigger automatic spending cuts if Greece fails to meet the targets of its bailout
  
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• The Latest: Neighbors of police officer mourn his death

  22-05-2016 17:33 via salon.com
  
  Police guard the scene on Rochdale Street near Zabelle Ave where an Auburn Police officer was shot Sunday morning May 22, 2016, in Auburn, Mass. Massachusetts State Police say in a statement that an Auburn police officer was shot at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Auburn is about 45 miles southwest of Boston. Officials say the officer was transported to a hospital. The identity and medical condition of officer were not immediately available. The shooting is under investigation. (Rick Cinclair/Worcester
  
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• Man shot outside White House still in critical condition

  22-05-2016 17:23 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A hospital official says a man shot by a U.S. Secret Service officer outside the White House remains in critical condition.
  George Washington University hospital spokeswoman Susan Griffiths said the man was in critical condition on Sunday. She declined to provide further details.
  Authorities say an officer shot the man once on Friday after he approached a checkpoint and refused to drop his weapon.
  A U.S. law enforcement official said that Friday that authorities have iden
  
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• Spanish priest pleads for divine intervention to repair road

  22-05-2016 17:22 via salon.com
  MADRID (AP) — A Spanish priest says he has given up hope that local authorities in his parish of Xestoso in the northwest of the country will fix the potholes in the roads so he has asked for divine intervention.
  Luis Roldan Patino celebrated Mass on a pitted road Sunday and splashed holy water to bless it. Each pothole is now marked with a wooden cross on the roadside so drivers can slow down before hitting them, he said.
  Roldan Patino told journalists that “just like we can pray to
  
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• 10 of the most eco-friendly destinations in North America

  22-05-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  In the 1950s, the world was crisscrossed by some 25 million annual tourists (i.e., overnight visitors). In 2014, according to the Center for Responsible Travel, that number ballooned to nearly 1.2 billion—about a 4,000 percent increase—contributing $7.6 trillion (almost 10 percent) to the world’s GDP.
  But the sad and inescapable fact is that all our flying, driving and trampling about has also contributed to the destruction of the environment, harming wildlife, historical site
  
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• Ken Loach wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for “I, Daniel Blake.”

  22-05-2016 16:47 via salon.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Veteran British director Ken Loach has won his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for “I, Daniel Blake.”
  The award for the79-year-old, the festival’s top prize, was announced by actor Mel Gibson at the Sunday ceremony at the Palais des Festivals on the French Riviera.
  Jury president George Miller described the jury’s selection as “rigorous and happy.”
  “I, Daniel Blake” is a warmly realistic drama about a middle-a
  
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• Indian prime minister arrives in Iran to boost economic ties

  22-05-2016 16:39 via salon.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official IRNA news agency says the Indian prime minister has arrived in Tehran, the first such visit in over a decade.
  The Sunday report said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with President Hassan Rouhani and other Iranian leaders during his two-day visit.
  The two countries are planning to develop Chabahar port in southeast Iran, expanding a trade route for the land-locked countries of central Asia that bypasses Pakistan.
  India is also looking to impo
  
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• Israel returns sarcophagus covers to Egypt as relations warm

  22-05-2016 16:31 via salon.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has returned two looted ancient Egyptian sarcophagus covers to Egypt amid warming relations between the countries.
  Israel’s Foreign Ministry returned the relics to Egypt’s ambassador to Israel at a ceremony Sunday. The ministry said their return was possible due to its “strengthening dialogue” with Egypt’s embassy.
  Israel’s Antiquities Authority says the colorful sarcophagus covers date back as early as the 16th and 10th centuries
  
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• AP Interview: Argentinian FM envisions ‘inspirational’ UN

  22-05-2016 16:25 via salon.com
  DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The latest candidate to enter the race to become the next United Nations secretary-general said Sunday the world body must become more inspirational and geared toward finding ways to tackle emerging new challenges.
  She also thinks that finally having a woman at the helm would help drive the change that’s needed.
  “My sense is that women bring to any discussion a much more cross-cutting perspective, a much more integrated perspective. It is in the nature of wom
  
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• Delegate Update: The latest count in the Democratic race

  22-05-2016 16:12 via salon.com
  
  It takes 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination for president. Here is where the race for those delegates stands, based on an Associated Press count:
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  PLEDGED DELEGATES
  These are the delegates won in primaries and caucuses. At the party’s national convention, these delegates must vote for the candidate who won them.
  Hillary Clinton: 1,768
  Bernie Sanders: 1,494
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  SUPERDELEGATES
  These are elected and party officials who automatically attend the convention and can vote for the
  
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• Arriola has goal, assist in US debut, 3-1 win at Puerto Rico

  22-05-2016 16:12 via salon.com
  BAYAMON, Puerto Rico (AP) — Paul Arriola had a goal and an assist in his national team debut, Tim Ream and Bobby Wood also scored, and the United States started its Copa America preparations with a 3-1 win over Puerto Rico in an exhibition game Sunday.
  Arriola, a 21-year-old from Chula Vista, California, who plays for Tijuana in Mexico, is not on the tournament roster but was among players called in for a training camp while regulars remained with the Major League Soccer teams through the
  
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• The right wing hates America: The loudest flag-waving patriots are always the dangerous hypocrites

  22-05-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  A volunteer hands out flags at a Donald Trump Rally in Bluffton, S.C., July 21, 2015.(Credit: AP/Stephen B. Morton)
  Does the right wing hate America? It has become a legitimate and important question to consider.
  Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil’s Dictionary, defined “patriot” as “the dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.” Reasonable people should always view appeals to patriotism with skepticism, and even suspicion. When a political constituency emerges, howeve
  
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• World leaders urged to reform aid, uphold international law

  22-05-2016 15:57 via salon.com
  ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — A top United Nations official has urged word leaders to reform the humanitarian aid system and uphold international humanitarian law ahead of a key summit.
  Speaking on the eve of the first World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said the gathering was a “wake-up call for action.”
  He said Sunday that “there is a huge need for us to show solidarity with those who are affected by natural disasters and man-made disa
  
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• How much of a workout is sex, really?

  22-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: HBO)
  Sex isn’t only a pleasurable experience, with some reports claiming the act also has health benefits that can be compared to those of exercise.
  In fact, the physiological response to sex is similar to that of exercise. Landmark studies in the 1960s showed people having sex had an increase in their respiratory rate, heart rate and blood pressure.
  These are all signs the body is working at an elevated rate, similar to that experienced during exercise.
  More recently, these find
  
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• Another harmful stereotype shattered: Employees with criminal records make better employees

  22-05-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  “Do the crime, do the time,” the old aphorism states. Even as pithy, reductive phrases go, it’s a particularly inept and oversimplified descriptor that ignores the racial, class and socioeconomic factors that contribute to sentencing disparities and overly punitive policies in our system of criminal injustice. It also belies the fact that long after many people with convictions have paid their “debt to society” (another misguided expression), they often continue to
  
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• Boycott over LGBT law impacts more than just the music fans

  22-05-2016 12:53 via salon.com
  GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Stagehand Kery Eller doesn’t own any Bruce Springsteen albums, but he would smash them if he did.
  Eller says he expected to earn at least $3,000 working the sold-out Springsteen concert and other high-profile shows around the state before artists canceled the events in protest over North Carolina’s new LGBT law.
  Eller and about 100 members of the local union of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees are among the many workers and busine
  
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• Merkel expresses concern about situation of Kurds in Turkey

  22-05-2016 12:29 via salon.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Ahead of her visit to Turkey, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says “some developments in Turkey fill us with big worries.”
  The chancellor expressed concern over the Kurdish conflict in an interview with weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on Sunday saying “we want that the Kurdish people have an equal place and a good future in Turkey.”
  Merkel left for Turkey on Sunday afternoon to attend the first World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul and al
  
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• Billboard Awards to be an emotional night with performances

  22-05-2016 12:13 via salon.com
  The Billboard Music Awards will feature a mix of emotional and explosive performances.
  Madonna will pay tribute to Prince, who died last month; Kesha will now sing live Sunday after her performance was initially canceled by her former mentor; and Celine Dion — who recently lost her husband and brother — will perform Queen’s “The Show Must Go On.”
  The show, airing live on ABC from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, will open with a 7-minute medley from Britney Spears,
  
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• Connecticut governor rarely meets legislators, records show

  22-05-2016 12:11 via salon.com
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy doesn’t spend a lot of time chit-chatting with state legislators, something politicians from both parties agree helps build the personal connections needed to get things done at the state Capitol.
  A review of Malloy’s public schedule, obtained by The Associated Press through records requests, reveals the no-nonsense governor infrequently holds meetings with members of the General Assembly in his Capitol office. And recent
  
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• The right fears free speech: Donald Trump and conservatives wage war on PC to disguise their own relentless assault on independent thought

  22-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell (Credit: AP/Reuters/Charles Sykes/Carlo Allegri/J. Scott Applewhite)
  A not-so-funny thing happened to critics of campus “political correctness” on their way to convincing Americans that liberal educators and parents have coddled the young American mind. Maybe this will be only a footnote to this year’s upheavals, but it’s a telling one: No sooner had well-funded organizations and helicopter pundits descend on colleges last fall
  
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• How one woman beat the big banks: The amazing, true story about how Wall Street’s mortgage fraud unraveled

  22-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/David J. Phillip)
  None of Lisa Epstein’s options for dealing with her foreclosure seemed very attractive. She could try the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, which President Obama announced from Mesa, Arizona, on February 18, 2009, the day after Lisa was served. She pulled the speech up at the White House website. The idea was that the Treasury Department would give mortgage servicers incentive payments to modify delinquent loans. In the speech, Obama kept stressin
  
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• “This will stop only when the American people get fed up”: American exceptionalism, the New York Times, and our foreign policy after Barack Obama

  22-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, David Petraeus (Credit: AP/Reuters/JWT/Filipe Frazao/Joshua Roberts/Reed Saxon)
  Part one of my interview with Andrew Bacevich, the soldier-turned-scholar who has just published “America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History,” was posted last week. It focused on aspects of what Bacevich, originally, considers one long war now in its 37th year. We looked at the chronology since Jimmy Carter fatefully set the advent
  
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• Protesters march to mark 2nd anniversary of Thailand coup

  22-05-2016 11:41 via salon.com
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — More than 200 people have marched in Bangkok to protest military rule on the second anniversary of the coup that toppled Thailand’s elected government.
  The march Sunday was one of the biggest anti-junta protests since the takeover and was treated with unusual tolerance by the authorities, who usually take a heavy-handed approach to dissent.
  The army took power after several months of militant and sometimes violent protests against the government of then-Prime Minister
  
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