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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  After Immunity Ruling, Trump Indicted Again for Trying to Reverse 2020 Election "Congratulations to Donald Trump on being the historic first-ever major party presidential nominee to be indicted after the convention," quipped one observer. By Brett Wilkins To Defeat Trump, Sunrise Mobilizes to Reach 1.5M Young Voters in Swing States "Young climate voters could decide this election," a leader of Sunrise said. By Edward Carver JEC Report Details 'Radical' Project 2025 Plan to Crush Climate, Education, and Healthcare "If Republicans get their way, low-income children will go hungry, seniors will be forced to choose between lifesaving medication and putting food on the table, and the planet our kids inherit will be in jeopardy." By Jessica Corbett Blasting US 'Recklessness,' Mexico Pauses Embassy Relations Over Judicial Reform Meddling "They have to learn to respect Mexico's sovereignty," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said of the U.S. and Canada after their ambassadors weighed in on his controversial proposal. By Brett Wilkins Bernie Sanders: 'No, Kamala Harris Is Not More Progressive Than I Am' In a note to supporters, the Vermont senator rebutted former President Donald Trump's claim that the Democratic nominee was the country's "most liberal senator." By Jake Johnson 'Devastating Blow': Trump-Appointed Judge Halts Protections for Undocumented Spouses One advocate called the ruling "a direct assault on the integrity of immigrant families and the principles of fairness and compassion that our nation should uphold." By Julia Conley

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■ More News MUST READ! THIS MATTERS! Republican AGs Urge Supreme Court to Halt Biden Methane Rule excerpts: Two dozen Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court to pause the Biden administration's rule intended to slash methane emissions by nearly 80% over the next decade through new requirements for the oil and gas industry. In addition to Arizona and Oklahoma, the states behind the request are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. 'Historic Victory' as Biden BLM Restores Protections for 28 Million Acres in Alaska Local Fears Grow After Major PFAS Spill at Former Navy Base in Maine excerpt:  The chemical tank fed firefighting foam concentrate into a fire suppression system that malfunctioned at Hangar 4 at the airport on August 19, sending the toxic foam into a nearby parking lot, down sewage and storm drains, and floating through the air at Brunswick Landing, a residential and business development in the area. About 1,500 gallons of the foam concentrate spilled. The tests indicated a level of PFOS well over federal and state limits. Maine requires remedial action when PFOS is found at a level of 1,000 ppt in groundwater and 210 ppt for milk—while the federal drinking water standard is less than 4 ppt. Samples taken at nearby drainage ponds found PFOS concentrations of a little over 1 million parts per million where the foam entered and 701 ppt where it would leave the ponds. Report Exposes How Chains Like Dollar General Prey on the Poor With Cash-Back Fees excerpt:  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published a report Tuesday highlighting how large retailers such as Dollar General and Kroger exploit low-income communities' lack of access to local banking to hit consumers with predatory cash-back fees. The CFPB found that while many retailers still offer free cash back at the register, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Kroger collectively rake in $90 million a year from fees imposed on people using the retail locations to access their own money. "At Dollar General and Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, cash-back fees for small withdrawal amounts are the highest in the sample ($1 fee or more for cash-back amounts under $50)," the bureau found. "Kroger, the country's largest grocery chain, recently announced new charges at their Harris Teeter stores (75 cents for $100 cash back or less), and charges 50 cents for up to $100 cash back at their other brand stores such as Ralph's, Fred Meyer, and others."

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■ Opinion Discovering Intelligence in Unexpected Places If our human intelligence has discerned over thousands of years which plants are edible and nutritious and healing, wouldn’t the evolutional ingenuity of plants which feed and sustain us and all life also constitute intelligence? By H. Patricia Hynes On the Distortions and Distractions of the Democratic National Circus In the crazy, refracted light of bent and broken images, Kamala Harris can simultaneously be part of the administration sending billions of dollars of weaponry to the IDF, and also grieve for those innocents crushed under Gazan rubble. By Phil Wilson Why Are Liberal Zionists Cheering as Harris Echoes Biden on Gaza? J Street is eager to define the limits of acceptable criticism of Israeli government policies from the Democratic Party establishment—setting aside human rights as secondary to the mantra of Israel’s “right to exist.” By Abba Solomon

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