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Win And Lose? US Man Gets $1 Million Dollar Winning Ticket, Loses it in Parking Lot
3 years, 9 months ago

Win And Lose? US Man Gets $1 Million Dollar Winning Ticket, Loses it in Parking Lot

News 18  

A Tennessee man was able to turn his luck around after finding his missing $1 million winning lottery ticket in a parking lot — remaining where he dropped it even on a blustery afternoon. Sparta resident Nick Slatten learned on March 11 that he won a drawing with all matching numbers on a ticket worth $1,178,746, the Tennessee Education Lottery …

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Trump's pardon of mercenaries guilty of massacre in Iraq leads to outrage worldwide
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump's pardon of mercenaries guilty of massacre in Iraq leads to outrage worldwide

The Hindu  

United States President DonaldTrump’s notorious pardons list has come in for scathing criticism domestically and internationally. A U.S. congressional report released in 2008 had concluded that between 2005 and 2007, Blackwater security personnel operating in Iraq had used deadly force on a “weekly basis”, causing “significant casualties” and deadly damage. The U.S. Attorney’s office, in a statement issued after the …

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This Blackwater guard pleaded guilty. He atoned. But didn’t get a pardon
3 years, 11 months ago

This Blackwater guard pleaded guilty. He atoned. But didn’t get a pardon

LA Times  

Since the massacre in Baghdad 13 years ago, Jeremy Ridgeway has done just about everything right. His cooperation was so extensive, his contrition so genuine that a tough-on-crime federal judge told him he was the most “unusual defendant to appear before me because I can’t think of a case where I’ve had stronger feelings myself about your commitment to change …

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Trump's Post-Election Pardons List: War Criminals, Crooked Politicians And Family
4 years ago

Trump's Post-Election Pardons List: War Criminals, Crooked Politicians And Family

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In early November, President Donald Trump learned that he would only have 10 more weeks to use the power of the presidency. I had never imagined that Trump or any other politician would affect American justice.” The White House statement on the pardons praised the men for “a long history of service to the nation” ― echoing …

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Father of child killed in Iraq massacre says Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘broke my life again’
4 years ago

Father of child killed in Iraq massacre says Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘broke my life again’

The Independent  

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Trump pardon of Blackwater killers sparks outrage in Iraq
4 years ago

Trump pardon of Blackwater killers sparks outrage in Iraq

LA Times  

President Trump this week pardoned four Blackwater guards convicted in a 2007 massacre of Iraqi civilians. “President Trump has hit a disgraceful new low with the Blackwater pardons,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. “These military contractors were convicted for their role in killing 17 Iraqi civilians and their actions caused …

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Trump pardons Blackwater war criminals — but ignores Julian Assange, who exposed U.S. war crimes
4 years ago

Trump pardons Blackwater war criminals — but ignores Julian Assange, who exposed U.S. war crimes

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Observers decried as "grotesque" Trump's full pardon of Blackwater guards Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard, and Nicholas Slatten and failure to pardon Assange as the publisher struggles to survive in a notorious British jail ahead of an expected extradition ruling on January 4. In a statement accompanying the new pardons and commutations—a …

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