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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Anti-ICE General Strike Underway in Minneapolis

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Chad Davis, Minneapolis, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

  • ICE authorized agents to break into homes without a judicial warrant, secret memo shows. (AP)

     

  • General strike to oppose ICE is underway in Minneapolis. (TNR, MN Reformer)
     

  • Martin Luther King Jr’s son urges the Supreme Court to save the Voting Rights Act and our democracy. (NYT)
     

  • The Sistine Chapel of the New Deal may be destroyed. (WaPo)
     

  • Planned CDC-funded, Tuskegee-style vaccine study in Africa is called off.  (NYT)
     

  • Abortion bans are killing women with high-risk pregnancies. (ProPublica)