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U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would change the way the Endangered Species Act is applied, significantly weakening the nation's bedrock conservation law credited with rescuing the bald eagle …
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Trump overhauls landmark endangered species protections
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Madeleine Gregory / VICE:
The Trump Administration Just Gutted the Endangered Species Act
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
New Trump rules weaken wildlife protections
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Trump administration overhauls Endangered Species Act in bid to reduce red tape
Trump administration overhauls Endangered Species Act in bid to reduce red tape
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The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People — Almost exactly a year ago, on Aug. 16, 2018, I visited Jeffrey Epstein at his cavernous Manhattan mansion. — The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute conversation was that Mr. Epstein knew …
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Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself with prison bedsheet: source — Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in his Lower Manhattan jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed, The Post has learned. — The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall …
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L Brands CEO Les Wexner has been giving documents to investigators showing alleged Jeffrey Epstein theft — KEY POINTS — L Brands founder Les Wexner and his legal team have been providing documents to federal investigators that they believe show Epstein misappropriated funds while the child predator was Wexner's money manager.
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A dozen FBI agents raid Jeffrey Epstein's ‘Pedophile Island’ — FBI agents were seen raiding Jeffrey Epstein's US Virgin Island Little St James on Monday morning and afternoon, exclusive DailyMailTV footage shows.
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Agents descend on Epstein's island home looking for evidence of inner circle: Sources
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Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
What happens to Jeffrey Epstein's money and homes now? Can feds seize everything?
What happens to Jeffrey Epstein's money and homes now? Can feds seize everything?
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U.S. Officials Suspect New Nuclear Missile in Explosion That Killed 7 Russians — American intelligence officials are racing to understand a mysterious explosion that released radiation off the coast of northern Russia last week, apparently during the test of a new type of nuclear-propelled …
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The Uneasiness Of Joe Biden's Presidential Campaign Is About More Than The Gaffes — DES MOINES — Joe Biden's fight for the soul of America often feels like a fight for the soul of Joe Biden. — His four-day swing through Iowa began with a confident rebuke of President Donald Trump's racist rhetoric.
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Sarah Silverman fired from new movie for blackface photo — Sarah Silverman revealed that she was recently fired from a movie over an old photo of her in blackface. — She said the photo, which was snapped on the set of “The Sarah Silverman Show” in 2007, recently resurfaced and caught the eye of the film's producers.
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Trump Policy Favors Wealthier Immigrants for Green Cards — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will make it harder for legal immigrants who rely on government benefit programs, such as food stamps and subsidized housing, to obtain permanent legal status as part of a far-reaching …
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Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris's controversial Michael Brown tweets, explained — Elizabeth Warren delivers a campaign speech at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair on August 10, 2019. Alex Wong/Getty Images — The tweets claimed a police officer “murdered” Michael Brown.
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On Ferguson, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris Told a Terrible Lie
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The Filibuster Is Suffocating the Will of the American People — To save our country's future, Democrats must abolish this arcane Senate rule. — Mr. Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. — I am not an expert on all of government, but I do know something about the United States Senate.
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U.S. Budget Deficit Already Exceeds Last Year's Total Figure — The U.S. fiscal deficit has already exceeded the full-year figure for last year, as spending growth outpaces revenue. — The gap grew to $866.8 billion in the first 10 months of the fiscal year, up 27% from the same period a year earlier …
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The US budget deficit is up 27% and getting closer to $1 trillion — The U.S. budget deficit widened another $119.7 billion, good for a 27% increase over a year ago, according to government figures released Monday. — Total outlays increased by 22.8% over last July as receipts grew 11.6%.
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'Using the Lord's name in vain': Evangelicals chafe at Trump's blasphemy — Paul Hardesty didn't pay much attention to President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., last month until a third concerned constituent rang his cellphone. — The residents of Hardesty's district …
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Did a Far-Right Star Recruit Jacob Wohl to Terrorize Women? — “I'll make it my mission to torture you so much that you end up killing yourself,” reads a text message from a phone number belonging to notorious smear merchant Jacob Wohl. — A perennial House candidate's alleged harassment …
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How YouTube Radicalized Brazil — NITERÓI, Brazil — When Matheus Dominguez was 16, YouTube recommended a video that changed his life. — He was in a band in Niterói, a beach-ringed city in Brazil, and practiced guitar by watching tutorials online.
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What I learned about the Democrats at a family barbecue in North Carolina — Every second Saturday in August, my mother and her siblings host a family barbecue, a simple gathering under the enormous pecan tree in the side yard of the house where they grew up in Severn, N.C. In the mix …
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Hong Kong Cancels All Remaining Monday Flights as Protesters Swarm Airport — Flights to and from city scrapped; Cathay shares tumble — Chinese official warns protesters showing signs of ‘terrorism’ — Hong Kong airport authorities canceled remaining flights on Monday …
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Hong Kong Shows the Flaws in China's Zero-Sum Worldview
Hong Kong Shows the Flaws in China's Zero-Sum Worldview
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Trump is impeaching himself — Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author, with Kevin Kruse, of the new book “Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974.” Follow him on Twitter at @julianzelizer. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.
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Tulsi Gabbard to report for active duty for 2 weeks — Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat from Hawaii and presidential candidate, will be taking a two-week absence from her campaign Monday to report for active duty with the Hawaiian Army National Guard in Indonesia, she said in an interview with CBSN's Caitlin Huey-Burns.
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How the El Paso Killer Echoed the Incendiary Words of Conservative Media Stars — Tucker Carlson went on his prime-time Fox News show in April last year and told his viewers not to be fooled. The thousands of Central Americans on their way to the United States were “border jumpers,” not refugees, he said.
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This is how to respond to Trump's conspiratorial lunacy — This is how CNN's State of the Union began on Sunday: … Credit Tapper with not allowing Trump to use his show as a megaphone for Trump's insane conspiracy-mongering and reminding viewers that the president feeds conspiracy theories all the time …
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Latina organizer Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez enters Democratic primary to challenge Cornyn — Tzintzún Ramirez, who helped found the Workers Defense Project and Jolt Texas, is the latest Democrat to announce a bid to deny U.S. Sen. John Cornyn a fourth term.
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