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• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Predatory lenders are just one of the reasons we need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, by Mark E Andersen
- Puerto Rico has passed the six month mark without full power. WTF is wrong with us, by Denise Oliver Velez
- States are working to make safe, legal abortions unsafe and illegal, by Susan Grigsby
- Trump’s crooked Cabinet: Liars, thieves and scoundrels edition, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Ohio Issue 1, the May fair elections issue, is a good deal because of the ballot initiative threat, by David Akadjian
- Education, gender and generation gaps in party ID are now larger than ever, by David Jarman
- These are not even close to the ‘best people,’ volume one, by Frank Vyan Walton
- When the former CIA chief thinks Putin owns Trump, that should concern every American, by Ian Reifowitz
- Here's why Jeff Sessions's war on marijuana doesn't make sense, by Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
• Puerto Rico has been without full power for 186 days.
• Contraception-opposing nuns fight for standing in state challenge:
The Third Circuit seemed inclined Friday to let Catholic nuns intervene in a legal battle between states and the Trump administration over the contraceptive mandate in the federal health care law.
Before making their way to the federal appeals court in Philadelphia this morning, the Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home entered the national stage in the last administration as one of the religious nonprofits that fought the contraception mandate at the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Norway has highest per capita number of all-electric cars and is now planning to go emission-free in the friendly skies:
The Scandinavian country aims to be the first in the world to switch to electric air transport.
State-owned Avinor, which operates most of the country's airports, plans to adopt battery-powered planes in the coming years to help slow climate change, Reuters reported.
"In my mind, there's no doubt that by 2040 Norway will be operating totally electric" on short-haul flights, Dag Falk-Pedersen, head of Avinor, said at an aviation conference in Oslo.
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