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Why does the Nobel Peace Prize often stir controversy?

With winner from 343 candidates set to be announced on Friday, a look at an award won by Obama, Gorbachev and Kissinger.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: The illegitimate attacks on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Legitimacy. The word has dominated discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court for years. Some, mostly on the left, claim that the court has lost its legitimacy. The debate on this question even has spread to the court itself, with comments on the matter made by Justices Elena Kagan, John Roberts…

Chicago Tribune

VIEWPOINT 2: Immigration may play a more important role in the midterms than you think

After Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, many political experts expected increasing immigration would hand Democrats consistent electoral victories in the future.

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Trump repeats false claim Obama mishandled ‘33 million pages’ of official papers

One-time president also calls FBI secret documents probe a ‘hoax’

The Independent UK

Appeals court rules against program that protects ‘Dreamers’

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against a decade-old program that protects hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children, paving the way for more court action on the long-disputed policy.

Tribune News Service

DACA remains intact as appeals court sends case challenging its legality back to lower court in Texas

The latest ruling in the long-running legal fight over the program doesn’t change the status quo for the program, which protects some undocumented immigrants from deportation and gives them work permits.

The Texas Tribune

Trump says federal agency packed top-secret documents. Email exchanges suggest otherwise

Former President Donald Trump publicly said that one reason that the FBI found boxes of classified documents improperly stored at his Florida estate was that federal workers had packed up the White House after his 2020 defeat.

Tribune News Service

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Biden juggles Iran nuke talks as Iranian repression grows

President Joe Biden has hit back at Iran over the government’s brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests and he's signaled that more sanctions may soon be announced

The Independent UK

Appeals court rules against program that protects 'Dreamers' - Roll Call

A federal appeals court ruled against a decade-old program that protects young undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

Roll Call

Democrats scored a huge win: Now what?

For more than a decade, Republicans riled up their base with vows to repeal Obamacare. Today, nothing but crickets

Salon

Commentary: Democrats’ midterm chances are better partly because of one person: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

What a difference six months make. Earlier this year, it was generally conceded that Republicans would sweep to victories in the midterm elections, giving them control of the House and Senate.

Chicago Tribune

Biden to focus on hurricane victims in Florida, not politics

President Joe Biden is traveling to hurricane-ravaged Florida with a pledge that federal, state and local governments will work as one to help rebuild homes, businesses and lives

The Independent UK

Air Force One log: Obama, Trump outflew Biden in midterms

Two bouts of COVID and underwater poll ratings took tolls on the president's domestic and campaign travel.

Axios

Maggie Haberman’s new Trump book: How Rod Blagojevich got really lucky

Haberman is the New York Times reporter who, as she writes, spent her career at “news outlets Trump cares most about.”

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Trump correspondence with Kim Jong Un missing, attorney for National Archives told ex-president's lawyers in May 2021

The top attorney at the National Archives emailed former White House lawyers in May 2021 alerting them that the administration had failed to turn over correspondence between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg.

The Independent UK

Barack and Michelle Obama share sweet tributes in honour of their 30th wedding anniversary

‘These last 30 years have been an adventure, and I’m grateful to have you by my side’

The Conversation

Holocaust comparisons are frequent in US politics – and reflect a shallow understanding of the actual genocide and the US response

Robert Keith Packer, a 57-year-old Virginian, achieved a measure of infamy at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when he was photographed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones along with the words “Camp Auschwitz.” “Work Brings Freedom,” the front said, a translation of the notorious motto “Arbeit macht…

WEKU

Come along as we connect the dots between climate, migration and the far-right

Today, we are launching a project to look at how the ripples of climate change are radiating outward. Beginning in Senegal, we will connect the dots between climate, migration and political extremism.

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Salon

MAGA woman calls Obama "Antichrist"

"I went from blue to red to MAGA!" said the Trump supporter at Saturday's rally in Michigan

The Guardian - US

Republicans’ lawless leaders at odds with midterm law and order message

Republicans running in next month’s elections cast their party as tough on crime, despite top party names’ legal scrapes

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pa. Republicans are gaining on Democrats in registered voters. What that really means

PHILADELPHIA — A local Republican Party in Southwestern Pennsylvania has a quote attributed to Samuel Adams on its website: “It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

The Hindu

KCR asks intellectuals to raise voice on attempts to divide society

CM pays tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, unveils 16-ft-tall statue at Gandhi Hospital

Tribune News Service

Happy birthday, Mr. President: Greetings fill social media for Jimmy Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter planned a simple 98th birthday celebration with family, friends and the Atlanta Braves. But the well-wishes extended far beyond his Plains, Georgia, home.

Chicago Sun-Times

Students scammed by for-profit schools will benefit most from Biden’s loan forgiveness plan

For-profit colleges enroll only 8% of college students, yet they account for 30% of all student loan defaults. These schools often lure in first-generation students, those from low-income communities, and veterans, through aggressive marketing and federal loans and grants.

WEKU

How local and national leaders are tested by major natural disasters

If handled well, storms like Hurricane Ian can cement politicians' images as community leaders — competent and trusted to help constituents get what they need. If mishandled, they can mar legacies.

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