Making Ivanka Trump Shoes: Long Hours, Low Pay and Abuse
Associated Press
Beatings by managers -- like the blow from a high heel that left a worker bleeding from the head last year -- were not unusual at the Chinese factory used by Ivanka Trump and other fashion brands, workers there say. China Labor Watch investigators say their undercover work revealed multiple labor law violations in pursuit of an ever-growing monthly production quota. But the Ivanka Trump brand says its products have not been made in the factory since March, even if China Labor Watch says it has evidence indicating otherwise. From Mickey D's to ‘Ghost' Hill Staffer
Daily Caller
What's the strangest part of this story? The fact that a man fired from McDonald's was put in charge of IT for many Congressional Democrats? That he and a network of friend and family, many accused of having no-show jobs with the government, are now at the center of a federal investigation involving an alleged multi-million IT scam? Or that top Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz still employs the man even though House authorities have banned him from accessing official computers? When Your Abuser Is a Cop
Huffington Post
Police officers accused of domestic violence are often extended a "professional courtesy" that results in lesser charges in the courtroom and few, if any, consequences at work. As it presents these findings, the Huffington Post traces the story of two women trapped and terrorized by the same Delaware police officer.
Illegal Mica Trade Sends Indian Children to the Mines
Der Spiegel
Child labor laws are all but ignored in India's dangerous mica mines, sending kids as young as 6 to toil underground. High demand for the mineral, used in everything from cosmetics to consumer electronics, keeps the mines in business even as the Indian government and private companies try to shut them down. Facebook Is Building a Global Hate Speech Code
ProPublica
With its "army of censors," Facebook is trying to remove so-called hate speech from its pages, but the global tech giant is running into a problem. How do you set a universal standard for a platform used by people across the globe, living with vastly different cultural prejudices and regional laws shaping speech? The results can seem erratic: giving Pepe the Frog the boot but letting swastikas stay. | 
