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United Air Lines cant catch a break. Scorpion falls from overhead bin, stings passenger.

The interview with Bill Nye on the Bernie Sanders show was viewed 4.5 million times:

The Bernie Sanders show, which is filmed in the Democratic partys DC-based studio, is atypical in ways beyond just presentation. Sanders has decided to bypass traditional media and broadcast exclusively onFacebook. And it is attracting to borrow a Sandersism a huge audience.

The first episode of the show featuredthe Rev William Barber, a protestant minister and activist who is a national board member of the NAACP. The conversation, aired on 16 February, focussed on grassroots mobilizing, and has been viewed more than 950,000 times. [...]

But it was the Nye broadcast that really got the Sanders team excited.

Texas A.G. Ken Paxtons trial begins Sept. 12: The trial was originally meant to begin May 1, but a change of venue also changed its start date. From the time before he was attorney general,Paxton has beenaccused of misleading investors in a company.If convicted, he could face up to 99 years in prison.But the trial beginning inSeptemberdeals with the lesser charge that hefailed to register with the state securities board. Prosecutors want to get that over withbefore taking up the more serious allegations against Paxton.

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Red-state progressives turn tables on forced-birther activists in fight to make Supreme Court abortion ruling effective across the states:

In June 2016 the Supreme Court ruled on the biggest abortion case since Roe v. Wade,Whole Womans Health v. Hellerstedt. In ruling that regulations for abortion clinics must be rooted in medical necessity and scientific evidence, the court not only struck down two egregious abortion restrictions in Texas; it struck a major blow against the entire anti-choice movement. [...]

The Supreme Court decision doesnt automatically strike all the laws across the country that restrict abortion access by other means, said Sarah Gillooly, policy director ofthe American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina, over the phone. So in order for the decision in Whole Womans Health v. Hellerstedt to be real and enacted across the country, its going to require a two-part approach. In practice, she said, that means litigating every individual law that is in conflict with the Whole Womans Health decision, or state legislatures repealing those laws and codifying that decision.

Chicago vows to make public buildings 100% renewably powered by 2025:

That's no small feat: With more than900 city-owned buildingsincluding public schools and colleges, park district fieldhouses and buildings owned by the Chicago Housing AuthorityChicago has the country's largest fleet of public buildings. Last year, they accounted for eight percent of all electricity use in Chicago.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the city willmeet its goalby acquiring renewable energy credits, purchasing utility-supplied renewable energy through the state's renewable portfolio standard and increasing on-site generation by installing morewindturbines andsolarpanels.

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