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NPR Kicks Off 2016 Pushing Muslim Immigration, Ignoring Terror Threat

National Public Radio (NPR) listeners got 2016 off to a start by hearing a message of solidarity for Muslim refugees and against “hate groups.” NPR’s Hourly News Summary began with a story about German Chancellor Angela Merkel urging Germans to show “solidarity” with the 1 million refugees —mostly from Syria — who have streamed into Germany in the last year alone.

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Men Accused of Campus Sexual Assault Are Winning Back Due Process Rights in Court

With all the focus on campus “rape culture,” those accused of sexual assault (read: men) often find themselves facing a byzantine, parallel system of justice in which standards of evidence and proof are dubious and the process seems stacked against them from the outset. Increasingly, these cases are being taken to real courts where the accused men are winning back the rights which were not protected by their universities.

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Will 2015 Be the Year of Renewable Fuel Standard Reform?

That the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee attacks the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) management—er, mismanagement—of the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS) indicates the growing frustration over both the agency and the RFS itself.

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Texas Abortion Clinics Have Time to Appeal to SCOTUS Before Closures

Texas abortion clinics have lost again at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; however, the Court complied with the abortion provider’s request for a ruling by June 19th so they would have time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. July 1st is the date that the Fifth Circuit ruled that abortion providers must close their clinics.