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Headlines for September 13, 2016; "Everything Was Cut Immediately": LIU Faculty and Students Protest Lockout & Class Cancellations; Rep. Barbara Lee: Repeal 9/11 Authorization for Use of Force to Cancel Blank Check for Endless War; Rep. Barbara Lee on Hillary Clinton's Health: Transparency is Important, But We Need to Move Forward; Lawyer for Imprisoned Whistleblower Chelsea Manning: Ongoing Pattern of Abuse Led to Hunger Strike; North Carolina Sees Economic Fallout from Anti-LGBT Law as NCAA Moves Championships Out of the State; ACLU Attorney: Growing Number of Murders of Trans Women Can't Be Separated from Anti-Trans Laws

Headlines for September 12, 2016; Water Protectors at Standing Rock React to Obama's Intervention in Dakota Access Pipeline Battle; In Dramatic Reversal, White House Halts Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Under Missouri River; Native American Activist Winona LaDuke at Standing Rock: It's Time to Move On from Fossil Fuels; Lakota Activist Debra White Plume from Pine Ridge: Why I am a Water Protector at Standing Rock

Headlines for September 09, 2016; National Guard on Standby in North Dakota Before Court Ruling on Dakota Access Pipeline; Who Is Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline? Bank of America, HSBC, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo; Nationwide Prison Strike Launches in 24 States and 40 Facilities over Conditions & Forced Labor; 45 Years After Legendary Attica Prison Uprising, New Book Reveals State Role in Deadly Standoff

Headlines for August 12, 2016; Did Companies & Countries Buy State Dept. Access by Donating to Clinton Foundation?; Donald Trump Claims Obama & Clinton Founded ISIS, But Bush Negotiated U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq; "Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart": NYT Mag Examines Region Since 2003 U.S. Invasion

Mujahid Farid, lead organizer with the group Release Aging People in Prison, says Gov. Cuomo has promised parole board reforms and should deliver immediately in light of a recent prisoner suicide.

Headlines for August 11, 2016; Racist & Illegal: Justice Department Slams Baltimore Police for Targeting Black Residents; Baltimore Residents from Rep. Elijah Cummings to Local Activist Speak Out on Being Stopped by Police; Crisis Engulfs Fox News as Roger Ailes Sexual Harassment & Spying Scandal Grows; How Did Susan Estrich Go from Feminist Icon & Roger Ailes Foe to His Attorney in Harassment Case?

Headlines for August 10, 2016; Donald Trump Under Fire After Hinting Gun Owners Could Assassinate Hillary Clinton; "The Making of Donald Trump": David Cay Johnston on Trump's Ties to the Mob & Drug Traffickers; "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice": How 18 Black Olympians Defied Jim Crow & Hitler in 1936; After Being Denied Parole 10 Times, Elderly Prisoner Allegedly Commits Suicide at Fishkill Prison

Headlines for August 09, 2016; Pakistan Mourns After Bombing at Hospital Kills At Least 74, Including Dozens of Lawyers; Meet Jacqui Maxwell, the UAW Autoworker Who Interrupted Trump's Economic Speech in Detroit; Matt Taibbi: Trump's All White Male Economic Team Includes "Financial Crisis Villain" John Paulson; Matt Taibbi on Libor, Cartel-Style Finance & How Failure to Fix Wall St. Has Propelled Trump's Rise; Handcuffed While Dying: Police Killing of Black Teenager Paul O'Neal Sparks Protests in Chicago; Murdered by a SWAT Team for Traffic Tickets: Inside the Police Killing of Black Mother Korryn Gaines

Headlines for August 08, 2016; Green Party Nominee Jill Stein: "We Are Saying No to the 'Lesser Evil' and Yes to the Greater Good"; A New Day & Another Way: Green VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka Urges Progressives to Reject Two-Party System; Julian Assange: Leaked DNC Emails Show Democrats Waged "Propaganda" Campaign Against Sanders; Google in the White House? Assange Warns of Close Ties Between Hillary Clinton & Internet Giant; Julian Assange on the Green Party's Rising Popularity & the November Election: "Anything is Possible"; WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Attacks Against Jill Stein Are "Going to Go Through the Roof"

We continue with Part 2 of our conversation with Lee Fang of The Intercept. His new series, "Foreign Influence," reveals how a company owned by Chinese nationals donated $1.3 million to Jeb Bush’s super PAC after receiving advice from a prominent Republican lawyer.

Part 2 of our conversation with Chase Strangio, staff attorney at the ACLU . He was just in North Carolina, where the ACLU is suing to overturn the state’s new anti- LGBT law.

Headlines for August 05, 2016; 30 Years of "Doonesbury" on Donald Trump: Cartoonist Garry Trudeau on the GOP's "Natural Born Toon"; Brazil's Dance with the Devil: 2016 Rio Olympics Begin with Government Dysfunction & Police Violence; Dave Zirin: Protests by Athletes and Displaced Rio Residents Accompany Opening of 2016 Olympic Games

Headlines for August 04, 2016; Chris Hedges vs. Robert Reich on Clinton, Third Parties, Capitalism & Next Steps for Sanders Backers; First Evidence Surfaces of Foreign Money Pouring into U.S. Elections After Citizens United

Headlines for August 03, 2016; Amid City Hall Protests, NYPD Chief Bill Bratton Resigns, But "Broken Windows" Continues Nationwide; NYPD Chief Bill Bratton's Next Stop: Private Consulting Firm Tied to the Clintons; "When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers": How Private Equity Profits off Our Daily Lives; Chelsea Manning Faces Indefinite Solitary Confinement & Extra Prison Time After Suicide Attempt

Headlines for August 02, 2016; "All He Has is a Toy Truck": The Shocking Police Shooting of Therapist Caring for Autistic Patient; Movement for Black Lives Calls for Reparations & "End to War Against Black People"; "Stop the Cops & Fund Black Futures": Voices from First Day of New York City Hall Park Occupation; Section 60: 2008 Film Captures Khizr & Ghazala Khan Mourning Son in Arlington National Cemetery; The Never-Ending War: U.S. Announces New Front Against ISIS in Libya