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Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 9, 2016

The NFL Should Let Players Use Marijuana

Former football players push league to accept medical marijuana.

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"I was sitting in the training room one day and I just watched player after player come in to take a Toradol shot just to practice," says former NFL player Ricky Williams. "I realized if we have to take all this medication, all these pharmaceuticals, just to practice it can't be good for our bodies in the long run. And that's when I started to look at my health seriously and look for alternatives."

Williams, the Heisman-winning running back who set multiple rushing records for the Miami Dolphins, was suspended by the NFL and then retired under a cloud of shame in 2003 for testing positive for marijuana.

Dolphins fans, the media, and the league all turned on Williams, labeling him an underachiever with a drug problem. Williams ultimately returned in 2005 and played several more seasons in the NFL, but the stigma never went away.

Who's Investing in the Dakota Access Pipeline? Meet the Banks Financing Attacks on Protesters

We continue our conversation with Hugh MacMillan on his new investigation revealing the financial institutions backing the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline project.

The investigation, published by research outlet LittleSis, names more than two dozen major banks and financial institutions helping to finance the Dakota Access pipeline. It details how Bank of America, HSBC, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions have, combined, extended a $3.75 billion credit line to Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of Dakota Access.

Iowa Landowners Sue to Stop Dakota Access Construction, Say Pipeline Provides No Public Service

The Dakota Access pipeline is also facing legal resistance in Iowa, one of four states through which it passes. We go to Des Moines to speak with Bill Hanigan, an attorney representing 15 Iowa landowners who are contesting the project’s use of eminent domain under the guise that it would provide a public service, even as it threatens to pollute the state’s farmland and water supplies.

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Lawyer: Judge’s Ruling Allows Dakota Access to "Desecrate" Sacred Ground

In Washington, D.C., a federal judge has ruled that construction on sacred tribal burial sites in the path of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline can continue. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order that halts construction only between Route 1806 and Lake Oahe, but still allows construction to continue west of this area. The ruling does not protect the land where, on Saturday, hundreds of Native Americans forced Dakota Access to halt construction, despite the company’s security forces attacking the crowd with dogs and pepper spray. This part of the construction site is a sacred tribal burial ground. We get an update from Stephanie Tsosie, associate attorney with Earthjustice who helps represent the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers over the Dakota Access pipeline.

Exclusive: Migrant Mother Says She Was Pushed to End Hunger Strike to Win Release from Detention

In an exclusive interview, we speak with a woman held for nine months with her four-year-old daughter at the Berks County Residential Center in Pennsylvania as they seek asylum from El Salvador. She describes how she won their release only after she bowed to pressure to break her hunger strike and eat an apple. Democracy Now! correspondent Renée Feltz filed this report.

Trauma, Then More Trauma: How Long is Too Long for Immigrant Children to Be Detained?

How long is too long for a child to be held in detention? At least five families have been held for a full year in the Berks Residential Center in Pennsylvania while their asylum case is appealed, even though they could be released to live with immediate family members and relatives in the United States. We discuss the impact of indefinite detention of asylum-seeking women and children with Bridget Cambria, an immigration lawyer who represents many of the families detained at the Berks County Residential Center, and with Dr. Allen Keller, who is an expert in the evaluation and treatment of detained immigrants and asylum seekers. Dr. Keller visited Berks in August to observe the families there. He is also member of the international advisory board of Physicians for Human Rights.

Water Protectors Lock Their Bodies to Machines to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline Construction

As a temporary restraining order that halts construction on part of the Dakota Access pipeline was issued Tuesday, about 100 people again shut down construction on another part of the pipeline by obstructing equipment. Some of them locked themselves to the heavy machinery. Native Americans from across the U.S. and Canada continue to arrive at the resistance camps. We speak with Tara Houska, national campaigns director for Honor the Earth.

Star Trek: The Libertarian Edition

Their mission: to seek out new life and new civilizations, and leave them alone. To trade with them if they want, but mostly to leave them the hell alone.

In honor of the 50th Anniversary if Star Trek, Reason presents the Libertarian parody of the final frontier.

Written and produced by Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, and Andrew Heaton. Shot and Edited by Bragg and Bragg. Starring Andrew Heaton and the Bragg Brothers with special appearances by Remy and Gary Johnson.

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The Video PetSmart Doesn't Want You to See

PETA sent eyewitnesses inside six factory animal dealers—including Reptiles by Mack, Holmes Farm, U.S. Global Exotics, Sun Pet, Rainbow World Exotics, and Brelean Corporation—that supply PetSmart or other pet stores and found suffering, abuse, and systemic failures at each and every one of them. Please, share this video widely and pledge never to buy pet supplies from retailers that sell any animals: http://investigations.peta.org/reptiles-suffer-petsmart/

Let PetSmart know that you'll buy supplies only from businesses that don't sell animals, such as Target, Walgreens, or online retailers.

Leather In Reverse

Most leather comes from developing countries such as India and China, where animal welfare laws are either non-existent or not enforced. In India, a PETA investigation found that workers break cows’ tails and rub chili peppers and tobacco into their eyes in order to force them to get up and walk after they collapse from exhaustion on the way to the slaughterhouse.

In the U.S., many of the millions of cows and other animals who are killed for their skin endure the horrors of factory farming—extreme crowding and deprivation as well as castration, branding, tail-docking, and dehorning—all without any painkillers. At slaughterhouses, animals routinely have their throats cut and some are even skinned and dismembered while they are still conscious.

Activists Sit In at Sen. Kaine's Office to Demand Release of Families Detained at Berks for 1+ Year

We get an update from Mohammad Abdollahi, immigration activist, on sit-ins planned today at the office of Senator Tim Kaine by formerly detained women, calling on him to release families from the Berks County Residential Center. They want the Democratic vice-presidential candidate and other senators to write personal bills that could allow the families to live with relatives in the United States while their cases are pending.

Latest news: This morning after we broadcast, Central American mothers began a sit-in at the office of Sen. Tim Kaine to protest the treatment of other women and children at Berks.

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PFW Quick Hits: New York Jets QB position’s future uncertain

The New York Jets will start their regular season with four quaterbacks on their roster, however with developmental issues, contract disputes, and other problems at that position, Hub Arkush explains why the Jets could be without a QB as early as next season.

This Video Will Break Your Heart and Save Lives

Actor Mckenna Grace demonstrates the agony that a dog endures when locked inside a car during even a mild summer day and spells out exactly how dangerous it is.

Leading Economists Oppose TPP Provision Giving Corporations Upper Hand in Investor-State Disputes

As the Obama administration begins a new push to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership, known as the TPP, more than 200 of the country’s leading economists and legal scholars have written a letter urging Congress to reject the 12-nation trade pact, citing its controversial investor-state dispute settlement. Critics say the so-called ISDS regime creates a parallel legal system granting multinational corporations undue power. We speak with Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. "This is an agreement so repugnant that members of Congress do not want to vote for it," says Lori Wallach.

Standing Rock Sioux Historian: Dakota Access Co. Attack Comes on Anniversary of Whitestone Massacre

We continue our coverage of the standoff at Standing Rock, where on Saturday the Dakota Access pipeline company unleashed dogs and pepper spray on Native Americans seeking to protect a sacred tribal burial site from destruction. Just a few hours before the attack, Democracy Now! interviewed Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard about another attack against her tribe more than 150 years ago. On September 3, 1863, the U.S. Army massacred more than 300 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in what became known as the Whitestone massacre. LaDonna Brave Bull Allard is also one of the founders of the Sacred Stone camp, launched on her land on April 1 to resist the Dakota Access pipeline.

"Millions of People in Laos Still Live in Fear" as Obama Pledges $90 Million to Clean Up U.S. Bombs

As President Obama becomes the first American president to visit Laos, we look at the legacy of the U.S. bombing campaign there during the war on Vietnam. The U.S. dropped at least 2 million tons of bombs on Laos. That’s the equivalent of one planeload every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years. Experts estimate that Laos is now littered with as many as 80 million bomblets—the baseball-sized bombs found inside cluster bombs. This week, Obama pledged $90 million to help clear Laos of the unexploded U.S. munitions. We feature excerpts from our interview with a Laotian bomb accident survivor and victim assistance advocate, and speak with Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern, co-authors of the book "Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos."

PFW Fantasy Quick Hits: Corey Coleman great for Cleveland Browns and your fantasy team

Cleveland Browns top pick Corey Coleman looks to lead this season’s rookie receiver class, and while he is not only a great fit for the Browns, he can also be a great fit for your fantasy football team. Hub Arkush has the details.

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