The detention of 32 workers at a concrete plant opened fissures among the town’s churches and secular leaders, and brought an abstract national issue painfully close to home.
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China Warns Its Tourists: Beware Gun Violence in America
The notice was China’s latest effort to warn its citizens about visiting the U.S., where about as many people are killed by guns as in car accidents.
When Health Insurance Prices Rose Last Year, Around a Million Americans Dropped Coverage
People earning too much to qualify for subsidies are finding themselves priced out, according to a new government report.
Judge Orders Extension of FEMA Aid for Puerto Rican Storm Evacuees
President Clown does not care – good thing a judge does Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria will be able to remain in hotels paid for by the government for another three weeks as a legal case continues.
What Alec Baldwin Taught My Son About Political Activism
“Even 8 year olds are outraged about family separation!” my son wrote on his protest sign.
Poland Purges Supreme Court, and Protesters Take to Streets
So many died for freedom to now be betrayed by fake patriots Demonstrations erupted in dozens of cities across the country as the right-wing governing party consolidated its power and escalated a clash with the European Union.
Nonfiction: The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran
The exiled Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad writes about her protest against compulsory hijabs in “The Wind in My Hair.”
Why New Zealand Is Furious About Australia’s Deportations Policy
New Zealanders are now the largest group inside Australian immigration detention centers, straining one of the world’s closest bilateral relationships.
Facebook reveals it gave 61 companies access to widely blocked user data
they were shooting for 100/

Company tells Congress it provided Nike, Spotify, a dating app and other services with special rights to information
Facebook gave 61 businesses including Nike, Spotify, UPS and dating app Hinge special rights to access user data after blocking such access more broadly.
In written responses to the US Congress on its operations, the social network revealed it granted numerous extensions to access a user’s public profile as well as some data from their friends.
Matteo Salvini backed by politician ‘with links to mafia’
Just like fascists of old

Interior minister won senate seat with backing of Giuseppe Scopelliti, who is accused of having ties to ‘Ndrangheta
Matteo Salvini’s electoral victory in the southern region of Calabria during the Italian general election this year was supported by a former politician who law enforcement authorities have claimed has close ties to the ‘Ndrangheta, the criminal organisation that controls most of the cocaine trade in Europe.
The far-right interior minister and head of the League party, who has emerged as a de facto prime minister, won his senate seat in the region with the backing of a former mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, with whom Salvini had a political alliance and who was arrested weeks after the March poll for forging documents while he was mayor.
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