EPA to Claim More Waterways, Japan Mulls 'Hate Speech' Ban, Your Cable Service Is About to Get Worse: A.M. Links

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  New EPA rules this week will deem a whole lot more streams, tributaries, and wetlands as protected wildlife and water habitats.

• The Justice Department reached a settlement with the city of Cleveland concerning its pattern of unconstitutional and excessively forceful policing; details have yet to be released.
• Charter Communications Inc., America's fourth-largest cable company, has reached an agreement to buy the country's second-largest cable company, Time Warner Cable, for $56.7 million billion. 
• Japan is considering a bill to ban "hate speech." 
• A leaked Council of the European Union document shows plans to thwart the U.K. from directing mobile and internet providers to automatically block porn. 
• Yet more evidence linking diabetes to later development of Alzheimer's disease. 
• A bunch of printouts of other people's Instagram photos sold for $90,000 apiece. 
• RIP John Nash.

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