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Analysis: Why Trump’s attacks on judges matter to Barr and the Justice Department Donald Trump

Analysis: Why Trump’s attacks on judges matter to Barr and the Justice Department

Washington (CNN)Fourteen federal judges will convene an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss concerns about President Donald Trump and the Justice Department's intervention in politically charged cases. The judges, a mix of Republican and Democratic appointees, who sit mostly on district courts across the country, will meet via conference call in…
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February 19, 2020
How Climate Change Could Bring About the Next Great Recession Climate Change

How Climate Change Could Bring About the Next Great Recession

Workers clean up an oil spill after Hurricane Dorian.Photo: GettyOur weather is becoming more extreme, litigation is targeting fossil fuel companies—and our whole economic system is at risk of imploding if the energy sector doesn’t prepare for climate change, financial experts warn.In a series of commentaries published in Nature Energy…
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February 19, 2020
Perdue Farms Outpaces Industry in Raising Chickens with Outdoor Access, Expands Free-Range Offerings Animal Protection

Perdue Farms Outpaces Industry in Raising Chickens with Outdoor Access, Expands Free-Range Offerings

SALISBURY, Md., Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the company's ongoing commitments to animal care, Perdue Farms is leading the industry in raising chickens with outdoor access and has recently expanded its free-range product offerings under its PERDUE® HARVESTLAND® label. Photo: Perdue Farms chickens raised with outdoor access Building on the…
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February 19, 2020
The real progressive-centrist divide on foreign policy Chinese Expansionism

The real progressive-centrist divide on foreign policy

The Democratic Party is clearly split along progressive-centrist lines on domestic politics, but the story is more complicated on foreign policy. Throughout the course of the primary campaign, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have pitched a distinctive progressive foreign policy that cuts the defense budget, ends military interventions, reforms the global economy, and confronts…
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February 19, 2020
Report: Trump offered Assange a pardon if he would deny Russia hacked DNC emails (Press Sec denies) Julian Assange

Report: Trump offered Assange a pardon if he would deny Russia hacked DNC emails (Press Sec denies)

The Guardian is reporting that lawyers for Julian Assange claim President Trump made an offer to pardon Julian Assange if he would agree to deny that Russia had hacked the DNC’s emails.The extraordinary claim was made at Westminster magistrates court before the opening next week of Assange’s legal battle to…
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February 19, 2020
Watch the video about designing for the circular economy from Dezeen Day Recycling

Watch the video about designing for the circular economy from Dezeen Day

The discussion between Dutch designer Richard Hutten and Ellen MacArthur Foundation CEO Andrew Morlet at the inaugural Dezeen Day conference last year was one of the liveliest, with the two disagreeing over whether plastic can be part of a circular economy.Morlet, who runs circular economy advocate the Ellen MacArthur Foundation,…
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February 19, 2020