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06 February 20
Amid Frustration Over Iowa, Sanders Posts Huge Fundraising Numbers
Holly Otterbein, POLITICO
Otterbein writes: "Bernie Sanders' campaign announced Thursday it raised $25 million in January from nearly 650,000 people, a third of whom were new donors. That makes it his best fundraising month of the 2020 campaign, according to his team."
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Holly Otterbein, POLITICO
Otterbein writes: "Bernie Sanders' campaign announced Thursday it raised $25 million in January from nearly 650,000 people, a third of whom were new donors. That makes it his best fundraising month of the 2020 campaign, according to his team."
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Trump supporter. (photo: Getty)
Trump Fans Flooded Iowa Caucus Hotline, Democrats Say
Tyler Pager and Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "Supporters of President Donald Trump flooded a hotline used by Iowa precinct chairs to report Democratic caucus results after the telephone number was posted online, worsening delays in the statewide tally, a top state Democrat told party leaders on a conference call Wednesday night."
Tyler Pager and Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "Supporters of President Donald Trump flooded a hotline used by Iowa precinct chairs to report Democratic caucus results after the telephone number was posted online, worsening delays in the statewide tally, a top state Democrat told party leaders on a conference call Wednesday night."
EXCERPT:
The party and its leaders have come under withering criticism for the botched reporting results, but when Price was asked at a news conference on Tuesday whether he would resign, he deflected, saying he was focused on finishing the count.
The chaos could not have come at a worse time for Iowa as many party leaders and lawmakers are questioning why a small, overwhelmingly white state has such an outsized role in determining the nominee.
Protesters rally in support of Planned Parenthood and pro-choice and to protest a state decision that would effectively halt abortions, in May 2019. (photo: Jacob Mosovitch/Getty)
Missouri Lawmaker Wants Police Officers to Stop Women From Getting Abortions
Jessica Glenza, Guardian UK
Glenza writes: "A Missouri state representative who once beheaded a chicken on Facebook to make a point about abortion wants police officers to stop women from terminating pregnancies."
Jessica Glenza, Guardian UK
Glenza writes: "A Missouri state representative who once beheaded a chicken on Facebook to make a point about abortion wants police officers to stop women from terminating pregnancies."
EXCERPT:
The bill is a reminder of an eight-week abortion ban law Missouri passed less than a year ago, and mirrors other extreme proposals from states such as Ohio.
In Ohio, a group of extreme anti-abortion lawmakers proposed a law which created a new crime, “abortion murder”, and required doctors to try to “re-implant” ectopic pregnancies, a procedure which does not exist in medical science.
Volunteers with humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths walk with jugs of water for undocumented immigrants on May 10, 2019, near Ajo, Arizona. (photo: John Moore/Getty)
Federal Judge Reverses Conviction of Border Volunteers, Challenging Government's "Gruesome Logic"
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept
Devereaux writes: "A federal judge in Tucson, Arizona, reversed the conviction of four humanitarian aid volunteers on religious freedom grounds Monday, ruling that the government had embraced a 'gruesome logic' that criminalizes 'interfering with a border enforcement strategy of deterrence by death.'"
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept
Devereaux writes: "A federal judge in Tucson, Arizona, reversed the conviction of four humanitarian aid volunteers on religious freedom grounds Monday, ruling that the government had embraced a 'gruesome logic' that criminalizes 'interfering with a border enforcement strategy of deterrence by death.'"
EXCERPT:
The remains of roughly 3,000 migrants have been recovered in Pima County alone since 2000. Experts are confident that the true death toll is much higher. Situated at the heart of the Sonoran Desert, the Cabeza Prieta refuge is one of the deadliest spaces in the region. As Márquez made clear in her decision, the No More Deaths volunteers admitted to the factual claims in the case: that they left aid supplies in “an area of desert wilderness where people frequently die of dehydration and exposure.” But in appealing their convictions, Márquez went on to write, the defendants had successfully argued that their actions — imbued “with the avowed goal of mitigating death and suffering” — were protected under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA.
A traveler waits in a passport control line at Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey. (photo: Chris Hondros/Getty)
Trump Suspends Global Entry Travel Program in New York in Retaliation for State's Driver's License Law
Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "The Department of Homeland Security informed the state of New York Wednesday that it would no longer allow New York residents to apply for its Global Entry travel program, which in return for a one-time thorough background check allows travelers, for a five-year period, to speed through airport border and security checks."
Elliot Hannon, Slate
Hannon writes: "The Department of Homeland Security informed the state of New York Wednesday that it would no longer allow New York residents to apply for its Global Entry travel program, which in return for a one-time thorough background check allows travelers, for a five-year period, to speed through airport border and security checks."
EXCERPT:
The move is an escalation of an ongoing feud between the Trump administration and New York state, which, along with a number of other big metropolitan areas, has passed laws aimed at limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Trump assailed these “sanctuary cities” in typically graphic, gruesome terms during Monday’s State of the Union address. The driver’s license law is popular in New York’s metropolitan areas, less so in its more conservative rural parts. The new measure had prompted sparring between New York officials and the Trump administration, but the retaliation had remained largely rhetorical until the travel program suspension.
The spiraling numbers of femicides in Honduras come amid a broader crisis of gender violence in Latin America. (photo: Reuters)
Honduran Women Murdered by Their Partners at Alarming Rates
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Every 23 hours, a woman violently loses her life in Honduras, said on Tuesday, the director of the Violence Observatory of the National Autonomous University, Migdonia Ayestas."
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Every 23 hours, a woman violently loses her life in Honduras, said on Tuesday, the director of the Violence Observatory of the National Autonomous University, Migdonia Ayestas."
EXCERPT:
Studies show Latin America is home to 14 of the 25 countries with the world's highest rates of femicide - the killing of a woman because of her gender - with 12 women and girls killed daily in the region because they are female.
Satsuki Kanno lives across the bay from a coal-burning power plant under construction in Yokosuka, Japan. (photo: Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times)
Japan Races to Build 22 New Coal-Burning Power Plants, Despite Climate Risks
Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times
Tabuchi writes: "'Why coal, why now?' said Ms. Kanno, a homemaker in Yokosuka, the site for two of the coal-burning units that will be built just several hundred feet from her home."
Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times
Tabuchi writes: "'Why coal, why now?' said Ms. Kanno, a homemaker in Yokosuka, the site for two of the coal-burning units that will be built just several hundred feet from her home."
EXCERPT:
Fukushima, though, presented another type of energy crisis, and more reason to keep investing in coal. And even as the economics of coal have started to crumble — research has shown that as soon as 2025 it could become more cost-effective for Japanese operators to invest in renewable energy, such as wind or solar, than to run coal plants — the government has stood by the belief that the country’s utilities must keep investing in fossil fuels to maintain a diversified mix of energy sources.
Together with natural gas and oil, fossil fuels account for about four-fifths of Japan’s electricity needs, while renewable sources of energy, led by hydropower, make up about 16 percent. Reliance on nuclear energy, which once provided up to a third of Japan’s power generation, plummeted to 3 percent in 2017.
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