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Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border

www.nbcnews.com - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pulling $271 million in funding from the Department of Homeland Security, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund, to pay for…

Immigrants in US Military Face New Citizenship Rule for Kids

www.nbcbayarea.com - The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled new rules that will make it harder for children of some immigrants serving in the military to obtain citizenship. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servi…

The Trump Secrets Hiding Inside Deutsche Bank

www.nytimes.com - It isn’t hard to understand how such speculation got started. Deutsche Bank has a long history of operating in Russia, working with Kremlin-linked companies and laundering money for wealthy Russians.…

When Ilhan Omar Is Accused of Anti-Semitism, It’s News. When a Republican Smears Muslims, There’s Silence.

theintercept.com - Rep. Ilhan Omar participates in a panel discussion during the Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy Conference and Presidential Forum at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C., on July 2…

Recent Israeli Attacks "Significantly Weakened" Syria's Air-Defense Systems

www.mintpressnews.com - On the night of June 30 until the early morning of July 1, 2019, Israel carried out its biggest attack against Syria’s air defense since 1982. The attack ultimately killed 16 Syrian civilians near Da…

With Hong Kong in turmoil, questions grow over leader’s refusal to offer concessions to protesters

www.washingtonpost.com - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam at a news conference in Hong Kong on Aug. 13. As anti-government unrest intensified over the summer, Lam has refused to budge on any of the protesters’ demands. (Thomas Pe…

Chinese troop movement into Hong Kong prompts unease

www.theguardian.com - Chinese military vehicles have been seen moving across the border into Hong Kong, in what the military said were regular troop movements, as fears rose that the city could see a Beijing-led crackdown…

Amazon's indigenous warriors take on invading loggers and ranchers

www.theguardian.com - Threatened by fire, deforestation and invasion, the Xikrin people of the northern Amazon are fighting back. While the authorities stand idle and the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, tries to unde…

Why Libertarianism Will Kill Us All | Current Affairs

www.currentaffairs.org - I like it when people on the right are forthright about the implications of their beliefs, because it helps reassure me that I’m not crazy. So in a way, I’m grateful that Brendan O’Neill has publishe…

Have You Worked for One of the Top Remote Call Centers? We'd Like to Hear From You — ProPublica

www.propublica.org - We’re doing some research into what it’s like to work at customer service contracting firms such as Concentrix, Arise, Working Solutions, Sykes, LiveOps and Sitel. We’d love to learn about your exper…

What are Russian special operations forces doing in Idlib? | Syria

www.aljazeera.com - In mid-July, as fighting was raging on in southern Idlib and northern Hama provinces in Syria's northwest, Reuters reported that Russia has deployed its special forces in the area. Quoting sources fr…

US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must

theconversation.com - The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with ever…

A Northwest Passage Journey Finds Little Ice and Big Changes

e360.yale.edu - Elwin Bay is carved into a steep, flat-topped mountain range along the northeast coast of Somerset Island in Canada’s High Arctic. For as long as anyone can remember, hundreds of beluga whales show u…

How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World

theintercept.com - The students at Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off. The plastic bag receptacle that the kids painted green and outfitted with triangular white teeth and a “feed …

Unwanted emails dump 28,397 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every day

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The US is drowning in natural gas, yet they keep drilling and fracking

www.treehugger.com - There is so much that they can't burn it here, so they compress it, liquify it, and ship it. That's not working out too well either. These are crazy times, when we know that fossil fuels are cooking

The winter was dry, the spring will likely be dry – here's why

theconversation.com - Winter still has a few days to run, but it’s highly likely to be one of Australia’s warmest and driest on record. While final numbers will be crunched once August ends, this winter will probably rank…

Los Angeles has lined up record-cheap solar power. But there's a problem

www.latimes.com - Los Angeles has been sitting on a contract for record-cheap solar power for more than a month — and city officials declined to approve it Tuesday because of concerns raised by the city-run utility’s …

E.P.A. to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas

www.nytimes.com - Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to announce on Thursday that it intends to sharply curtail the regul…

Will Your Job Be Replaced by Robots?

www.businessnewsdaily.com - If the idea of a C-3PO-like robot occupying your current job, whether that's teaching a class of kindergarteners or auditing taxes, sounds far-fetched 10 years from now, you're not wrong. However, ex…

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