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Robert Parry | Ronald Reagan Employed Torture 
President Ronald Reagan meeting with Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt. (photo: Consortium News/Corbis)

Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "A sketchy history of the U.S. intelligence community's participation in torture and other abuses surfaced in the mid-1990s with the release of a Pentagon report on what was known as 'Project X,' a training program in harsh and anti-democratic practices which got its start in 1965 as the U.S. military build-up in Vietnam was underway."
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Putin Announces Ukraine Ceasefire
BBC News
Excerpt: "An agreement aimed at ending the fighting in Ukraine has been reached, following marathon talks in Belarus."
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Americans Continue to Say a Third Political Party Is Needed
Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup
Jones writes: "A majority of U.S. adults, 58%, say a third U.S. political party is needed because the Republican and Democratic parties 'do such a poor job' representing the American people."
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Southern California Edison's Plans to Cut Jobs, Hire Foreign Workers Is Assailed
Shan Li and Matt Morrison, Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "Southern California Edison's plans to lay off hundreds of employees and hire foreign workers instead is coming under attack from lawmakers in Congress and local unions."
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Banks May Have Overplayed Their Hand Fighting Wall Street Regulation
Cheyenne Hopkins, Carter Dougherty and Silla Brush, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "Financial companies and their employees spent $169 million on the November elections and had expectations that their bid to loosen regulations would get easier with Republicans in control of both the House and Senate. Now, there is second-guessing that banks overplayed their hand."
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Pope Francis: A Christian Who Does Not Protect Creation "Does Not Care About the Work of God"
David Gibson, Religion News Service
Gibson writes: "If you are a Christian, protecting the environment is part of your identity, not an ideological option, Pope Francis said Monday."
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