| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, July 31PROGRESSIVES TAKE ALL COMERS An expected showdown between the 2020 Democratic race’s two leading progressive candidates instead quickly turned into a battle pitting Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders against a host of lesser-known moderate candidates desperate to continue their low-polling campaigns. [HuffPost]MODERATORS ‘USE GOP FRAMING’ TO GRILL DEMS Bernie Sanders took his criticism of the mass media to live national television in the debate, accusing CNN’s Jake Tapper of amplifying GOP rhetoric on health care. [HuffPost]ACLU: 900+ KIDS SEPARATED AFTER JUDGE ORDERED HALT The American Civil Liberties Union told a judge that President Donald Trump’s administration has separated more than 900 migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border since June 2018, despite a court order for the government to curb the practice. [HuffPost]VID SHOWS COP GRABBING BLACK MAN’S NECK IN VIOLENT ARREST A black motorist was violently thrown to the ground and arrested by two Mississippi highway patrolmen after being pulled over, allegedly for speeding, a video taken by his fiancée and posted to Facebook appears to show. [HuffPost]SEESAWS BUILT ACROSS THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER Two California professors unveiled three pink seesaws that rest on the U.S.-Mexico border wall ― intended to provide a playful and fun way to bring “joy, excitement and togetherness” to families on both sides of the border. [HuffPost]BRITAIN BOILS ON HOTTEST DAY Weather agency the Met Office says the temperature reached 101.7 at Cambridge University Botanic Garden in eastern England during last week’s heat wave. The previous U.K. record was 101.3, set in August 2003. [AP]
.   CALIFORNIA TAKES AIM AT TRUMP TAX RETURNS California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a controversial law that all but forces President Trump to give in to longstanding demands that he release his tax returns if he wants to get on the state’s GOP primary ballot. [HuffPost]PRINCESS SEEKS FORCED MARRIAGE PROTECTION ORDER IN UK The sixth wife of the billionaire ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has applied to a London court for a forced marriage protection order. Princess Haya bint al-Hussein appeared in a central London court following weeks of media speculation about her whereabouts. [CNN]NATIONAL CATHEDRAL ON TRUMP RACISM: HAVE WE NO DECENCY? Leaders of the Washington National Cathedral have joined the voices denouncing President Donald Trump for attacking Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and labeling his majority-black district a “rodent infested mess.” [HuffPost]PLANNED PARENTHOOD, ACLU, SUE TO STOP ABORTION BAN Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union are taking the state of Missouri to court over strict legislation banning abortion eight weeks into a pregnancy, often before a person knows they are pregnant. [HuffPost]OFFICIAL WHO SETTLED HARASSMENT CLAIM TAPPED FOR TOP JOB Charles “Chas” Cook, a Transportation Security Administration official who in 2015 settled a sexual harassment claim that a female federal employee made against him, was named to a senior advisory role at the Department of Homeland Security. [HuffPost]WHY BRAZIL’S DEADLY PRISON RIOTS KEEP HAPPENING A violent clash between rival drug gangs left at least 57 inmates dead at a north Brazilian prison. In many ways such riots are Brazil’s version of U.S. school shootings: tragically common events with major death tolls, after which shock quickly fades into grim acceptance, and no reforms are enacted. [HuffPost]
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