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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Roadsidepictures/Flickr

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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