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Garrison Keillor | Thanks in Advance for Reading This Letter
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "It's the age of gratitude, the decade I'm in."
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Arizona to Ban People From Filming Police Within 8 Feet
Gloria Oladipo, Guardian UK
Oladipo writes: "A new law in Arizona bans people from taking close-range recordings of police, ostensibly to prevent them getting dangerously close to potentially violent encounters, though some critics have described it as a threat to the first amendment."
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In Letter to Biden, Shireen Abu Akleh's Family Demands a Meeting and an End to Israeli Impunity
Robert Mackey, The Intercept
Mackey writes: "The family of the Palestinian American journalist gunned down during an Israeli raid wants Biden to meet them face to face during his Middle East trip."
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Brazil's Supreme Court Rules Paris Agreement Is a Human Rights Treaty
Paige Bennett, EcoWatch
Bennett writes: "The supreme court of Brazil has ruled that the Paris Agreement, an international treaty adopted in 2015 to limit global warming to 2°C or, preferably, 1.5°C, is a human rights treaty that must take precedence over national laws."
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