The Right Response to Trump’s Tough Trade Talk? Ignore It.

“Who really gets hurt by Mexican tariffs on American cold cuts? The answer: Mexicans. Who really gets hurt by Canadian tariffs on American steel? Canadians.”

Read more: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=9398

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French President Macron’s vision of post-Brexit Europe: armies, police and taxes

“French President Emmanuel Macron called for a common European defence force and budget, as well as common asylum offices, border police, financial transaction tax and carbon tax, in a wide-ranging speech setting out his vision for Europe.”

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20170926-live-french-president-macron-presents-vision-post-brexit-europe-eu-germany-election

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1,358 Children and Counting — Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Border Policy

“The total reflects the emerging scale of a practice that will have lasting impacts on a generation of kids who happened to arrive in the U.S. at this particular moment.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/08/immigration-family-separation-children/

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ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back.

“160 American-born children have a parent who could soon be ordered to leave the country; many families are relying on handouts.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/11/us/tennessee-immigration-trump.html

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Two FBI officials say the state of forensics is fine. Here’s why they’re wrong.

“FBI agents and federal prosecutors aren’t evaluated for their allegiance to scientific principles. They’re evaluated on their ability to close cases and win convictions. Therefore, there’s a strong incentive for them to sacrifice sound science for expedience.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2018/06/06/two-fbi-officials-say-the-state-of-forensics-is-fine-heres-why-theyre-wrong/

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Lindsey Graham blocking Paul amendment to end indefinite detention of Americans

“Graham, a retired colonel, has in the past supported the ability to indefinitely detain those captured under the current AUMF and has opposed limits on the president’s ability to conduct war.”

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/08/sources-rand-paul-blocked-in-bid-to-end-indefinite-detention-of-americans/

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Tennessee tries to dismiss man with $75 after wrongfully imprisoning him for 31 years

“McKinney said he doesn’t hold any grudges about the years he was in jail. God, he said, took all of the anger out of his heart.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/us/lawrence-mckinney-exoneration-trnd/index.html

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Mexican politician shot dead minutes after promising to crack down on violent crime

“Police have made no arrests in connection to the killing, footage of which was captured on CCTV and quickly made its way onto social media.”

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/politician-shot-dead-after-promising-fight-violent-crime-968529

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Baghdad ballot warehouse mysteriously catches fire a week after re-count ordered

“The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.”

Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/fire-breaks-ballot-warehouse-baghdad-180610144257131.html

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The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Especially Wikipedia

“Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works.  Even under the best of circumstances, this presents huge problems.”

Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal-extremely-bad-news-everyone-even-especially-wikipedia

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