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The Latest Breaking News from Richard Nixon

As the Endangered Species Act turns 50, those who first enforced it reflect on its mixed legacy

On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act

The Independent UK

The D.C. Circuit Mulls Trump's Alarmingly Broad Claim of Presidential Immunity From Prosecution

His lawyers say no jury can ever consider charges based on his "official acts" as president, which include his efforts to reverse Joe Biden's election.

Reason

Trump Urges Appeals Court to Throw Out Election Subversion Case

Former President Trump's legal team urges federal appeals court to throw out federal election subversion case, citing presidential immunity. Complicated le...

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Elliott Erwitt obituary

American photographer and member of Magnum who captured celebrities, politicians and the incongruities of life in his work

The Guardian - UK

The Endangered Species Act turns 50

Environmental historian Lowell Baier explains why saving the environment was once a bipartisan effort

Salon

Special Counsel Jack Smith's Appointment Is Unconstitutional

Everything he has done since Nov. 2022 is null and void.

Reason

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The Californication of the country’s housing market

Record homelessness, sky-high rents, and homes affordable only to millionaires: A case study in how local control and a shifting national economy created today’s perverse housing market.

Fortune

Jack Smith took his case against Donald Trump straight to the Supreme Court. Here’s what that means.

The special counsel asked the high court to rule quickly on Trump’s weak claim of immunity from criminal prosecution. Jack Smith’s strategy has implications for democracy, a University of Chicago legal scholar explains.

Chicago Sun-Times

Expert: Trump's immunity claim a "loser"

Expert: Jack Smith is confident in “his chances of winning,” given past decisions on presidential immunity

Salon

Smith's SCOTUS "leapfrog" the smart play

Special counsel Jack Smith's Supreme Court move is meant to stop Trump's attempt to delay the Jan. 6 case

Salon

Special counsel asks US supreme court to rule on Trump’s claim of immunity

Prosecutors seek expedited decision on whether former president has immunity amid concern that appeals process could delay trial

The Guardian - US

Smith petitions SCOTUS to rule on Trump

Smith is seeking an expedited decision from the Supreme Court to avoid the appeals process

Salon

Kissinger and a forgotten genocide

It's hard to keep track of Kissinger's crimes — but his handling of the Pakistan crisis of 1971 was up there

Salon

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The Independent UK

When are the Iowa caucuses and why are they so important?

Prominent Iowa pollster tells Gustaf Kilander, ‘it should be impossible to poll caucuses accurately because they’re designed for things to change at the very last moment’

The Guardian - US

‘They’re trying to kill me’: Hunter Biden talks with Moby about the rightwing vendetta against him

In a podcast interview, Biden discusses addiction, sobriety and how his father’s foes would like to see him relapse

Chicago Sun-Times

Norman Lear, who brought ‘All in the Family,’ Archie Bunker and ‘Maude’ to TV, dead at 101

The liberal political activist’s signature production was immersed in the day’s headlines while also drawing upon Lear’s childhood memories of his tempestuous father.

International Business Times

Norman Lear, Sitcom King Who Changed TV -- And America

Norman Lear was television's prolific genius whose trailblazing sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s not only revolutionized US entertainment -- they helped change the way a nation saw itself.

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The Conversation

Kissinger’s obsession with Chile enabled a murderous dictatorship that still haunts the country

Noticing my nonappearance at the start of a black-tie dinner at the Johannesburg home of Harry Oppenheimer, a mining magnate and Africa’s richest man, the host assumed I was boycotting the event on principle. It was a reasonable assumption: I was the Chilean ambassador to South Africa, and Henry Kissinger…

The Independent UK

Was Ron DeSantis lacklustre campaign doomed from the start?

Ex-GOP strategist believes the governor’s mix of awkwardness and nastiness will end his campaign, while a pollster says nothing can be predicted when it comes to the Iowa caucuses where it comes down to what happens in the room on the night, Gustaf Kilander reports

The Independent UK

Was Ron DeSantis lacklustre campaign doomed from the start?

The Guardian - UK

Henry Kissinger’s role in Bengali massacre

Letter: In 1971 he advised Nixon to side with Pakistan’s military dictator in his war with Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, writes Robert Evans

The Independent UK

From Cambodia to Bangladesh: a brief history of Henry Kissinger’s alleged war crimes

Henry Kissinger sided with military dictators and genocidal regimes in his pursuit of projecting US power during the Cold War, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocents, Bevan Hurley reports

The Guardian - UK

The Kissinger years: flawed legacy of the man behind US cold war policy

He shaped a world of superpowers but to those without power he was ruthless. How did one diplomat hold sway for so long?

The Independent UK

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