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Headlines for February 23, 2017; "Kids Will Be Harmed by This": Trump Admin Rolls Back Protections for Transgender Students; We Have to Keep Fighting: Water Protectors Vow Continued Resistance to #DAPL as Main Camp Is Evicted; Days After Pruitt Becomes EPA Head, Newly Released Emails Show His Ties to Koch Bros. & Energy Firms; Madison, Wisc. to Pay $3.3M to Family of Tony Robinson, a Black Teenager Shot by Police

Headlines for February 22, 2017; "A Deportation Force on Steroids": Millions of Immigrants Could Face Removal Under New Trump Rules; Advocate: Trump's Deportations are Possible Because Obama & Congress Failed to Protect Immigrants; Anne Frank Center: Trump's Remarks on Anti-Semitism are Too Little, Too Late; White House Refuses to Condemn Rise of Islamophobia as Radical Right Enters Political Mainstream; FDR Rejected Anne Frank Twice as a Refugee, Advocate Urges Trump Not to Close U.S. Borders Again

Headlines for February 21, 2017; A Champion of the People or Wall Street? Trump Pushes to End Dodd-Frank & Consumer Protection Agency; Black Edge: New Yorker's Sheelah Kolhatkar on Wall Street's Biggest Insider Trading Story in History; A Message to Trump from a Swede: My Real Concern is Rise of Militant Anti-Muslim Neo-Nazis, Fascists; #StopTrump: Protests Erupt Across Britain as Lawmakers Debate Canceling Trump's State Visit

Headlines for February 20, 2017; DHS Memos: Speed Up Mass Deportations & Prosecute Parents Who Help Undocumented Children Enter U.S.; Daniel Ramirez Medina's Lawyer: "Absolutely No Evidence" to Support DREAMer's Continued Detention; Did Jeff Sessions Foreshadow New Immigration Crackdown in a Memo Before Becoming Attorney General?; George Takei on 75th Anniv. of Internment of Japanese Americans & Why Trump is "The Real Terrorist"; "For-Profit President": A Look at How Trump Is Pushing Wholesale Corporate Takeover of the Gov't

Headlines for February 17, 2017; In First Solo Press Conference, Trump Attacks Media, Claims Admin Running Like "Fine-Tuned Machine"; Why Did ICE Arrest & Imprison a 23-Year-Old DREAMer and DACA Recipient Living Legally in the U.S.?; Undocumented Mother in Sanctuary in Denver Church: I've Paid Taxes for 20 Years, Why Hasn't Trump?; Denver Church Gives Sanctuary to Immigrant Mother Facing Deportation: "We Are Not Breaking Any Laws"; Does New Labor Secretary Nominee Alex Acosta Have the Perfect Résumé to Sabotage a Federal Agency?

Headlines for February 16, 2017; Glenn Greenwald on Flynn-Russia Leaks: Highly Illegal & Wholly Justified; Greenwald: Democrats Seem to Consider Snowden's & Manning's Leaks Evil & Leaks Under Trump Heroic; Greenwald: Empowering the "Deep State" to Undermine Trump is Prescription for Destroying Democracy; Greenwald on Trump-Netanyahu Meeting & How Israel Is Turning into an Apartheid-Like State; Trump Is Asked About Rising Anti-Semitism in U.S., He Responds by Boasting About Election Victory; Glenn Greenwald: Trump Seems to Be Committed to Escalating Violence in Yemen

Headlines for February 15, 2017; What Did Trump Know & When Did He Know It? White House in Crisis over Flynn & Russia Scandals; Trump & Spicer Blame Russia Scandal on "Illegal Leaks" Rather Than Lies by Senior Officials; Rep. Lieu on Kellyanne Conway: White House Should Not Be Used for Enriching the President's Family; Rep. Lieu: The White House Lying & Stifling Dissent on Yemen Raid is Step Toward Authoritarianism; Rep. Ted Lieu to Introduce Bill Requiring a Psychiatrist in White House; Trump Security Protocols Questioned: Mar-a-Lago Resort is Not the White House Situation Room; The Stephen Miller Story: From Pestering Latino Students in High School to Drafting Muslim Ban

Headlines for February 14, 2017; Pipeline Partners: Trudeau & Trump Meet as They Push for Keystone XL & Other Big Oil Projects; Crossing the Northern Border: Immigrants in U.S. Flee into Canada Seeking Refuge from Trump; Clayton Thomas-Muller: Rising Fascism in U.S. Is Emboldening White Supremacists in Canada; FCC Under Trump: Net Neutrality & Internet Freedom Face New Attack; Criminalization & Trump's ICE Raids: Two Immigrant Rights Organizers Facing Deportation Speak Out

Headlines for February 13, 2017; Secretary of Labor Violations? Opposition Grows to the Nomination of Fast-Food CEO Andy Puzder; Former Carl's Jr. Worker Recalls Sexual Harassment & Wage Theft at Andrew Puzder's Restaurant Chain; Saru Jayaraman: Trump Labor Nominee Andrew Puzder Does Not Respect Women At All; ICE Arrests 600 in Nationwide Raids After Trump Order Expands Criminalization of Immigrants; California vs. Trump: Lawmakers Push to Become "Sanctuary State" Despite Threats from Washington

Headlines for February 02, 2017; Resist or Resign: Facing Grassroots Pressure, Democratic Lawmakers Intensify Fight Against Trump; Meet the Attorney Suing Trump for Barring Children from Entering U.S. to See Their Parents; The "De-Judification" of the Holocaust?: Trump Avoids Word "Jews" on Holocaust Remembrance Day; Nazis Once Published List of Jewish Crimes, Trump Now Pushing to Do the Same for Immigrant Crimes; Lizzy Ratner: "Nobody Wanted to Take Us In: The Story of Jared Kushner's Family, and Mine"

Headlines for February 01, 2017; Neil Gorsuch, Trump's Supreme Court Pick, Has History of Ruling Against Workers, Women & Regulation; "Stolen Seat": A Look Back on How Republicans Blocked Obama's Supreme Court Nominee; President Bannon?: Racist, Islamophobic Breitbart Leader Consolidates Power in Trump White House; Rev. Jesse Jackson: Confirming Sessions as Attorney General Would Stick a Knife Through MLK's Work

Headlines for January 31, 2017; The Attorney General Defied Trump's Muslim Ban. He Did One Thing He Knows How to Do: He Fired Her; Watergate Veterans: Just Like Nixon, Donald Trump Appears to Think He is Above the Law; Former Watergate Prosecutor: We Need Officials Who Will Stand Up to Trump; Sarsour v. Trump: Palestinian-American Activist Sues the President to Overturn Muslim Ban; Trita Parsi: If Ban is How Trump Approaches Iran, We Fear Nuclear Deal Won't Withstand Tensions

Headlines for January 30, 2017; "Let Them In": Thousands Descend on Nation's Airports to Protest Trump's Refugee & Muslim Ban; Sudanese Stanford Ph.D. Student Speaks Out After Being Detained at JFK Under Trump Muslim Ban; ACLU: We Have Won the First Victory to Overturn Unconstitutional Muslim Ban, But Fight Continues; NYC Taxi Drivers Stage Airport Strike to Protest Trump's "Inhumane & Cruel" Executive Order; Protests Shut Down San Francisco Int'l Terminal Demanding Release of Detained Passengers; Reps. Jerrold Nadler, Pramila Jayapal Join Airport Protests to Free People Detained Under Muslim Ban; Hundreds of Texas Muslim Leaders Receive Alarming Survey Investigating Their Views on Islam

Headlines for January 27, 2017; "The Media is the Opposition Party": Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Tells Press to "Keep Its Mouth Shut"; Are Trump & Mexican President Provoking Conflict to Distract from Low Approval Ratings at Home?; Will Trump's Claims of Election Fraud Pave the Way for an Assault on Voting Rights?; Hundreds of Thousands Sign Petition to Impeach Trump for Violating Constitution over Biz Interests

Headlines for January 26, 2017; Jay Z Calls for Rikers Jail to be Closed in Exclusive Interview with Democracy Now!; Trump's Executive Actions Reverse Obama Policies on Torture, Healthcare & Guantánamo Bay; Faiza Patel: Trump Is Taking U.S. Back to Era of George W. Bush—But Worse; NYC: Thousands Protest Trump Plan to Impose Ban on Refugees, Block Visas from 7 Muslim Nations; In First TV Interview, President Trump Says Torture "Absolutely" Works; A Day We Were All Afraid Of: Immigrant Rights Activist Speaks Out After Trump Takes Executive Action