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Heroic citizens and officers chased down a stabbing rampage suspect in Sydney, Australia in a dramatic video that shows one citizen approaching the man with a chair. At the end of the video, the suspect MORE

Energy Policy: Who Needs It?

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From our friends at DemocraticUnderground comes this apt comparison between sane energy/infrastructure policy and bull-goose looney. No extra credit for figuring out which is which. MORE

States Sue Trump Administration Over Rollback of Obama-Era Climate Rule

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A coalition of 29 states and cities on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on coal-burning power plants. The move could ultimately limit how much leverage MORE

“The Hunt” Movie Release Canceled Following Criticism From Trump

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According to TIME: Universal Pictures announced Saturday afternoon that it will cancel the release of its violent thriller movie The Hunt, following the prior decision to pause advertising it. This news comes less than 24 MORE

Infrastructure Week is a Big Fat Joke — But is it Funny?

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Early in the Trump Administration, the go-to distraction when some plan had gone awry was to announce that next week was “Infrastructure Week,” when experts and stakeholders would come together at the White House and apply their collective brainpower to the problem of America’s crumbling infrastructure. MORE

WANTED: Volunteer columnists

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While we work to allow people to submit articles to News Views, we also need some volunteer columnists who want to hone their current or future writing skills and be willing to write their own MORE

Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins

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RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her MORE

Running with the Devil

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A tenacious federal agent traces the supply line of a group of cagey and experienced cocaine dealers. Starring Nicolas Cage and Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Jason Cabell.

UPDATE: After Attack on Norway Mosque, Body Found at Home Tied to Assailant

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A worshiper thwarted an attack on a mosque Saturday by a young man wearing a helmet and body armor, according to Norwegian authorities and a witness. Hours later, police said they found a dead woman MORE

July heatwave caused 400 more deaths than usual in Netherlands

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Almost 400 people more died in the Netherlands during Europe’s recent record-breaking heatwave than in a regular summer week, Dutch national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. In total, 2964 people died MORE

ICE raids several food processing plants in Mississippi; Arrests 600+ Workers

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From AP (more at the link): The raids, planned months ago, happened just hours before President Donald Trump visited El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino border city where a man linked to an online screed about MORE

Trump pulled critical US personnel out of Syria and Iraq. Now ISIS is making a bloody comeback

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ISIS has made a comeback in Syria as U.S. forces draw down, according to an alarming quarterly report from the Pentagon Inspector General released Tuesday. In the period from April 1 to June 30, the MORE

Desolation Center

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Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have paved the way for Burning Man, Lollapalooza and MORE

Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88

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Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate in literature whose best-selling work explored black identity in America — and in particular the often crushing experience of black women — through luminous, incantatory prose resembling that of no MORE

Tucker Carlson ‘Whitesplains’ that White Supremacy is a hoax.

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On the his show last night, Tucker Carlson claimed that White Supremacy is “a hoax” and “a conspiracy theory used to divide the country.” Tucker, who is well known for spewing the same rhetoric as MORE

Simon Pegg & Nick Frost to star in new Amazon Prime series “Truth Seekers”

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“Truth Seekers,” a comedy-horror series about paranormal investigators starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, will bow on Amazon Prime Video, which has landed international rights to the show and will launch it as an original. MORE

Eviction, the mother of invention

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Last week, I woke up oblivious to what was about to happen. I got out of bed, went through the usual morning routine, and while having some toast, I casually opened my smartphone’ browser to MORE

Texas faces turbulent political moment

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For a quarter century, Texas Republicans have run a ruby-red state, building a conservative bastion where government is limited. Now, the mounting tensions of racially-motivated rhetoric, a polarizing president and Republican infighting have rocked Texas’s MORE