https://www.vox.com/2018/12/12/18138323/trump-vietnamese-deport-refugees

Vox

2018-12-14

This Vietnamese refugee was caught in limbo in 2004 when he lost his travel papers. Photo: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/12/senate-democrats-overturn-trump-donor-disclosure-1057535

Politico

2018-12-14

The US Senate approved a resolution from Sens. Jon Tester and Ron Wyden (pictured) that would block the recent Treasury Department change to IRS forms allowing political nonprofits to avoid listing some donors. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/14/pacific-nations-under-climate-threat-urge-australia-to-abandon-coal-within-12-years

The Guardian

2018-12-14

Tuvalu, under acute threat from climate change, joins other Pacific nations to call on Australia to end coal-powered energy generation. Photo: Warming Images/REX/Shutterstock

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/moscow-slams-us-hysterics-over-planes-sent-to-caracas/article/538764

Digital Journal

2018-12-14

A Russian Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber pictured after landing in Caracas as Venezuela's Defens Minister Vladimir Padrino announced Venezuela and Russia are to hold joint military exercises. Photo: Federico PARRA, AFP

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/13/rohingya-house-resolution-pompeo-1063111

Politico

2018-12-14

The resolution urges the Trump administration, specifically Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to take a position on whether the Rohingya were victims of genocide. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/politics/yemen-saudi-war-pompeo-mattis.html

New York Times

2018-12-14

A home that was destroyed by an airstrike in Sana, Yemen. The nearly four-year conflict there has killed thousands of civilians and created famine in the country. Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

https://thinkprogress.org/scientists-shocked-that-warming-has-wiped-out-oldest-thickest-arctic-sea-ice-febe927ab619/?fbclid=IwAR2nlkear2OJ75sv1ppFxYIJM_KADE-3VVcy2Xqj83VgNayTl7m3i_o6jMQ

Think Progress

2018-12-14

A polar bear looks for food at the edge of the pack ice north of Svalbard, Norway. Photo: Wolfgang Kaehler/Lightrocket via Getty Images

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675588183/yemens-warring-sides-shake-hands-on-deal-to-swap-thousands-of-prisoners

National Public Radio

2018-12-12

Representatives of the Houthi rebel delegation and the Yemeni government delegation pose for a picture with representatives from the office of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen and the International Committee of the Red Cross Tuesday during peace talks in Rimbo, Sweden. Photo: Claudio Bresciani/AFP/Getty Images

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/donald-trump-deport-vietnam-war-refugees/577993/

The Atlantic

2018-12-13

Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speak at a meeting in February. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/12/what-despicable-sham-msnbcs-chris-hayes-denounces-five-house-democrats-cowards

Common Dreams

2018-12-13

As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made the moral case Wednesday against the US-backed war in Yemen and pushed for passage of a War Powers resolution to end support for the Saudi-led assault on its poverty-stricken neighbor, five Democrats in the House were busy coordinating with Republicans to kill the companion version of the resolution. Photo: @SenSanders