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Monday, August 11, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: Inside Obama’s Push for Regime Change in Iraq

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August 11, 2014
BEHIND THE SCENES
For years, President Obama took a hands-off approach to Iraqi politics, but after ISIS took over Iraq's second-largest city in June, he began shopping for a new prime minister. Eli Lake exclusively reports that Obama has been pushing Iraq to switch out Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for the past two months and got his wish today.
UNREST
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will open a parallel inquiry into the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a St. Louis-area police officer, local police announced Monday. Brown's death sparked protests that turned violent late Sunday. Gas stations and businesses were looted and police say that at least 20 patrol cars were damaged. According to one officer, the use of tear gas against demonstrators is now a possibility. According to witnesses and friends, Brown was unarmed and had his hands in the air when a police officer shot and killed him Saturday afternoon—though that account is disputed. "The genesis of this was a physical confrontation," said Jon Belmar, chief of the St. Louis County Police Department. According to Belmar, Brown pushed an officer back into his car, "where he physically assaulted the police officer" and struggled to gain hold of the officer's weapon.
RACE DOESN'T PAY
If you're a person of color hoping to get hired by a political campaign, here's the ugly truth: You'll probably get paid less than your white counterparts, if you're even hired at all. Campaign staffers who are people of color routinely have lower salaries and less glamorous jobs. Tim Mak investigates how an antiquated understanding of race relations results in minority staffers getting shortchanged.
ASYLUM
Last fall, 70 Sikh men fleeing political persecution in India showed up on the Texas border requesting asylum. What happened next, the men and their lawyer tell Caitlin Dickson, is that U.S. immigration allegedly outed them to their home government—breaking American laws regarding amnesty.
VANISHED
In devastated Gaza, the wounded, the displaced, and many of the dead are accounted for, but there is no organized search for the missing. Jesse Rosenfeld reports that nobody knows how many have disappeared beneath the bombs, whether buried, vaporized, among the unidentified wounded or the unclaimed dead. And there is no real system for finding out.

SAFE FOR NOW
No Pending Charges Against Tony Stewart
Investigation is ongoing.
TOOTHPASTE THREAT
Colgate Ingredient Linked to Cancer
Triclosan is harmful in animals.
BLEAK TIMES
Postal Service Suffers $2 Billion Loss
In last financial quarter.
GROUPIE
Mickey Rourke Lines Up for Putin T-Shirt
"I think he is a good guy."

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