Tuesday, April 11, 2017

@9:00, 4/11/17

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N.Y. / Region

De Blasio Starts a Week on Staten Island With Little Contact With Staten Islanders

The mayor began five days of working in a borough that often complains of being neglected, but spent most of the day among officials in Borough Hall.

Staten Island is not getting happier.

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Opinion

The Extreme Foolishness in Extreme Vetting Proposals

Demanding that travelers turn over phones and social media passwords to customs officials won’t make the United States safer.

The Inquisition should not be policy.

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U.S.

Trump Administration Halts Reports on Immigration Cooperation

Several cities and counties had questioned the accuracy of the data in the reports, which named jurisdictions that had failed to cooperate with immigration officials.

Low wage work is done by immigrants living on hope.

Some of the country knows.

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Opinion

Standing Ground Against the N.R.A.

South Carolina and Florida lawmakers are considering dangerous bills, but their counterparts in Vermont have put a focus on public safety.

There are monsters.
A gun makes a bigger monster.

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Health

The Trump Resistance Found Early Success. Can It Also Find Momentum?

Opposition groups, fresh off a health care victory, are now looking ahead to other issues, the midterms, and a long road ahead.

A coalition does one thing.
A political party does many things.

Trump resistance is a coalition.
It will not become a political party.

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U.S.

Grandfather Apologizes After Dylann Roof’s Guilty Pleas Add to Sentence

Dylann Roof, already sentenced to death in federal court for the South Carolina church massacre, was in court to plead guilty to state murder charges.

A person cannot die permanently more than once.
Governments must not indulge in torture.

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Opinion

Don the Builder Toys With a Promise

Not only is there no trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. Mr. Trump is blocking projects already in the pipeline.

The Republican program is to do nothing.

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Podcasts

‘The Daily’: Trump’s Syria Evolution

Why Mr. Trump’s decision to launch missiles into Syria is at odds with nearly everything he has said about Syria.

A loud noise.

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U.S.

Federal Judge Strikes Down Texas Voter ID Law

The judge ruled that the law was enacted with the intent to discriminate against black and Hispanic voters.

Texas is crazy.

The world will never again be as once it was.

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U.S.

Patients Prescribed Shelter and Medication Are Wary of Trump Cuts

A movement to use federal programs to offer treatment and a place to live to the chronically ill has a new worry: expected cuts and tax code changes.

Republican domestic policy abandons the poor.

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