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Headlines for July 14, 2017; New GOP Healthcare Bill Still a Huge Tax Cut for the Rich, Gutting Women's Care & Slashing Medicaid; Justice Neil Gorsuch Ends First SCOTUS Term Voting Consistently on Court's "Most Conservative Side"; "Care in Chaos": New Documentary Uncovers Rising Tide of Attacks on Abortion Clinics Under Trump; Rep. Keith Ellison on GOP Healthcare Plan, Bill Targeting Muslims & Philando Castile Settlement; Oscar-Nominated Actor James Cromwell Speaks Out Before Jail Time for Peaceful Anti-Fracking Protest
Headlines for July 13, 2017; A Further Blow to Democracy in Brazil? Glenn Greenwald on Conviction of Lula Ahead of 2018 Election; Glenn Greenwald: Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails Aren't a "Smoking Gun" or Evidence of Criminal Collusion; Whistleblowers Shouldn't Be Prosecuted Like Spies: Greenwald on Alleged NSA Leaker Reality Winner
Headlines for July 12, 2017; Trump White House in Crisis as Emails Confirm Campaign Embraced Russian Effort to Defeat Clinton; Senate Begins Confirmation Hearings for Trump FBI Pick Tied to Torture, Gitmo; Mexico Spied on Human Rights Investigators & Families of Missing Students Instead of the Kidnappers; 122 Countries Overcome U.S. Opposition and Pass Landmark U.N. Global Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Headlines for July 11, 2017; Battle For the Net: Mass Day of Action Aims to Stop Trump's FCC from Destroying Free & Open Internet; Former FCC Commissioner on How Greater Media Consolidation is a Threat to Democracy and Free Speech; As the Pope Calls for Dialogue, a Debate on How to Resolve Venezuela's Political & Economic Crisis
Headlines for July 10, 2017; Devastation in Mosul: Iraq Seizes City from ISIS, But Battle Left Thousands Dead & 700,000 Displaced; Even as All G20 Countries Except U.S. Affirm Paris Deal, Nations Pour $72B a Year into Fossil Fuels; Award-Winning Journalist Amy Wilentz on Just How Little Jared Kushner Knows About Foreign Politics
Headlines for July 07, 2017; Dystopian Nightmare: Eyewitness Decries Police Repression at G20 Summit as 100,000 Take to Streets; Srećko Horvat on "Democracy in Europe Movement" & Uniting Leftists Against Failed Policies of G20; Katrina vanden Heuvel: Now is Time for Trump & Putin to Negotiate, Not Escalate Tensions; Berta Cáceres's Daughter Speaks Out After Surviving Assassination Attempt in Honduras
Headlines for July 06, 2017; Embraced by Far-Right Gov't in Poland, Trump Claims Future of Western Civilization is at Stake; Tens of Thousands Plan to Protest Trump and Globalization at G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany; Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently: Syrian Citizen Journalists Document a City Under Siege
Headlines for July 05, 2017; Will Trump Seek Talks with North Korea or Counter Missile Test with More U.S. Military Aggression?; 44 States Say No to Trump: Resistance Grows as Trump's Election Commission Seeks Private Voter Data; Ari Berman: Kris Kobach Is Helping Trump Lay Groundwork for Nationwide Voter Suppression Effort; Rami Khouri: In Rift with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE Want to Hold Back Waves of Change
"What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech; Standing Rock's Fight Against Dakota Pipeline Continues While Tribe Plans for a Fossil-Free Future; Grandson of Former VP Henry A. Wallace on Standing Rock's Fossil-Free Future & American Fascism; Divest-Invest: Foundations Urged to Back Climate Solutions While Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Bernie Sanders on Resisting Trump, Why the Democratic Party is an "Absolute Failure" & More