07 February 20
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07 February 20
Al Franken Blasts Susan Collins: She'll Let Trump 'Get Away With Anything'
Marty Johnson, The Hill
Johnson writes: "Former Sen. Al Franken criticized Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday, saying that she and her fellow GOP lawmakers will let President Trump 'get away with anything' after the Maine Republican announced she would vote to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial."
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Marty Johnson, The Hill
Johnson writes: "Former Sen. Al Franken criticized Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday, saying that she and her fellow GOP lawmakers will let President Trump 'get away with anything' after the Maine Republican announced she would vote to acquit Trump in his impeachment trial."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Milford, N.H., on Tuesday. (photo: Mary Altaffer/AP)
Sanders, Pointing to Popular Vote, Declares a 'Very Strong Victory' in Caucuses
Amy B Wang and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post
Excerpt: "With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Sanders noted that he holds a lead of several thousand popular votes, one he said he is unlikely to relinquish."
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Amy B Wang and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post
Excerpt: "With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Sanders noted that he holds a lead of several thousand popular votes, one he said he is unlikely to relinquish."
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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. (photo: Alex Wong/MCT)
Trump Targets National Security Official Who Testified in Impeachment Hearings for Ouster
Josh Dawsey, Robert Costa and Greg Miller, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump is preparing to push out a national security official who testified against him during the impeachment inquiry after he expressed deep anger on Thursday over the attempt to remove him from office due to his actions toward Ukraine."
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Josh Dawsey, Robert Costa and Greg Miller, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump is preparing to push out a national security official who testified against him during the impeachment inquiry after he expressed deep anger on Thursday over the attempt to remove him from office due to his actions toward Ukraine."
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Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during an event to introduce his gun safety policy agenda in Aurora, Colorado, Dec. 5, 2019. (photo: Michael Ciaglo/Getty)
Bloomberg Plagiarized Parts of at Least Eight of His Plans
Akela Lacy, The Intercept
Lacy writes: "Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign plagiarized portions of its plans for maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure, and mental health from research publications, media outlets, and a number of nonprofit, educational, and policy groups."
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Akela Lacy, The Intercept
Lacy writes: "Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign plagiarized portions of its plans for maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure, and mental health from research publications, media outlets, and a number of nonprofit, educational, and policy groups."
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FBI Director Christopher Wray. (photo: AP)
The FBI Just Put White Nationalists and Neo-Nazis on the Same Threat Level as ISIS
Tess Owen, VICE
Owen writes: "The FBI has elevated racially-motivated violent extremism to a 'national threat priority,' in yet another sign that the U.S. government has finally woken up to the threat posed by white nationalists and neo-Nazis at home and abroad."
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Tess Owen, VICE
Owen writes: "The FBI has elevated racially-motivated violent extremism to a 'national threat priority,' in yet another sign that the U.S. government has finally woken up to the threat posed by white nationalists and neo-Nazis at home and abroad."
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Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko. (photo: B. Peverelli/Ballake Sissoko)
World Renowned Malian Musician Ballake Sissoko Says US Customs Destroyed His Beloved Instrument
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Malian musician Ballake Sissoko, a renowned player of the kora, has accused US customs of breaking his 21-string instrument 'without any justification.'"
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alian musician Ballake Sissoko, a renowned player of the kora, has accused US customs of breaking his 21-string instrument "without any justification".
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The Upper Gulch section of the Escalante Canyons features sheer sandstone walls, broken occasionally by tributary canyons. (photo: Jerry Sintz/AP)
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Malian musician Ballake Sissoko, a renowned player of the kora, has accused US customs of breaking his 21-string instrument 'without any justification.'"
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alian musician Ballake Sissoko, a renowned player of the kora, has accused US customs of breaking his 21-string instrument "without any justification".
Sissoko's team said in a statement on Tuesday that he discovered his "cherished, custom-made kora ... completely destroyed" upon returning to Paris in an Air France flight from New York after the conclusion of a two-week tour around the United States with his group 3MA.
"He checked in his kora, in its hard case, with its state-of-the-art amplification system, specially designed by sound engineer Julian Cooper," the statement read.
"At the airport, Ballake picked up his kora case, went back to his flat and slept. But when he woke up and opened the kora case, he was shocked and dismayed to find his kora in many pieces, with only a note from US customs - in Spanish, with the unfortunate motto: 'Intelligent security saves time.'"
Images posted on his Facebook page showed the instrument, played across West Africa, lying in pieces.
The statement said the strings, bridge and entire delicate and complex sound system of amplification had all been taken apart.
"Ballake is a highly acclaimed, distinguished performer who travels around the world with his kora for concerts at top venues," the statement said.
"His reputation is impeccable as both artist and human being. He has no criminal record. He is just a brilliant musician, a pacifist, a kind and gentle person, a magnificent and creative performer who manages to give African tradition a contemporary voice with total integrity."
"In Mali, the jihadists threaten to destroy musical instruments, cut the tongues out of singers, and silence Mali's great musical heritage. And yet, ironically, it is the USA customs that have in their own way managed to do this," it added.
"Would they have dared do such a thing to a white musician playing a classical instrument?"
Many people online took to social media to demand US customs apologise to Sissoko and express their support for him.
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The Upper Gulch section of the Escalante Canyons features sheer sandstone walls, broken occasionally by tributary canyons. (photo: Jerry Sintz/AP)
Trump Administration Finalizes Plans to Allow Mining, Drilling in 2 Utah National Monuments
Brady McCombs, Associated Press
McCombs writes: "The U.S. government implemented final management plans Thursday for two national monuments in Utah that President Donald Trump downsized. The plans ensure lands previously off-limits to energy development will be open to mining and drilling despite pending lawsuits by conservation, tribal and paleontology groups challenging the constitutionality of the president's action."
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Brady McCombs, Associated Press
McCombs writes: "The U.S. government implemented final management plans Thursday for two national monuments in Utah that President Donald Trump downsized. The plans ensure lands previously off-limits to energy development will be open to mining and drilling despite pending lawsuits by conservation, tribal and paleontology groups challenging the constitutionality of the president's action."
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Market dynamics have limited interest in a large coal reserve found in the now unprotected lands cut from Grand Staircase and uranium on lands cut from Bears Ears.
But an economic analysis by the U.S. government estimates coal production could lead to $208 million in annual revenues and $16.6 million in royalties on lands cut from Grand Staircase. Oil and gas wells in that area could produce $4.1 million in annual revenues, the analysis says.
Trump cut the size monuments following review of 27 national monuments by then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. He recommended shrinking two other monuments as well, but Trump has yet to take action.
Trump said he scaled back the size of the monuments to reverse misuse of the Antiquities Act by previous Democratic presidents that he said led to oversized monuments that hinder energy development, grazing and other uses. The move earned cheers from Republican leaders in Utah including former U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch.
Conservation groups have called Trump’s decision the largest elimination of protected land in American history. They criticized the Trump administration on Thursday for spending time on management plans they believe will become moot when the court sides with their assertion that Trump misused the Antiquities Act to reverse decisions by previous presidents.
President Bill Clinton created the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 1996 on lands home to cliffs, canyons, waterfalls and arches in southern Utah. President Barack Obama created Bears Ears National Monument in 2016 on a scenic swath of southern Utah with red rock plateaus, cliffs and canyons on land considered sacred to tribes.
“It’s the height of arrogance for Trump to rush through final decisions on what’s left of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante while we’re fighting his illegal evisceration of these national monuments in court,” said Randi Spivak, public lands director at the Center for Biological Diversity in a statement. “Trump is eroding vital protections for these spectacular landscapes. We won’t rest until all of these public lands are safeguarded for future generations.”
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