Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Michael Sozan: Is America Sleepwalking into Trump’s Next Coup?

Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times Foreign Correspondent Chris Hedges: Trump and Rubio Revive McCarthy Era ‘Red Scare,’ Targeting U.S. Progressive Activists as Terrorists

Guttmacher Institute Federal Policy Advisor Anna Bernstein: Trump Admin Ends $68M in Federal Grants for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs

Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary

• Greenland forces U.S. oil company to delay drilling in the Arctic territory
• Deadly Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus could be mutating in the DRC
• Maine legislature bans state, local law enforcement cooperating with ICE

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