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Study finds climate crisis driving great white sharks into colder waters, with devastating effect on wildlife
Feb 17, 2021 06:08Warming oceans—a key meausure of the climate crisis—are forcing great white sharks into colder waters, where they are causing a devastating decrease in wildlife populations, according to new research reported by The Guardian.
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Fossil fuel pollution caused nearly 1 in 5 premature deaths in 2018, study finds
Feb 17, 2021 06:01Researchers at universities in the U.K. and at Harvard University estimated that, in 2018, 8.7 million people died prematurely due to pollution released by fossil fuels, or about 18 percent of total global deaths that year.
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Biden maintains US policy of protecting Israeli regime impunity
Feb 17, 2021 05:41By attempting to scuttle the ICC's efforts to hold the Israeli regime accountable, the Biden administration is continuing a bipartisan policy.
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US Republicans seem ready to turn page on Trump after voting to acquit him
Feb 16, 2021 14:19Nikki R. Haley, a former United Nations ambassador under President Donald J. Trump who left the administration without the drama or ill will that marred most of its high-level departures, sharply criticized her former boss in an interview published recently, saying that she was “disgusted” by his conduct on Jan. 6, the day of the Capitol riot.
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US police deployed potentially lethal chemical during Black Lives Matter protests
Feb 16, 2021 14:18Nowhere in the U.S. experienced more HC smoke during the summer of 2020 than Portland, Oregon, where Homeland Security and Border Patrol forces deployed at least 26 such munitions against BLM protesters in July 2020.
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Seven Republican rebels who voted to convict feel Trumpists' fury
Feb 16, 2021 14:16The seven Republican senators who broke ranks by voting to convict former president Donald Trump at his impeachment trial faced immediate hostility and criticism from fellow conservatives revealing the potentially high cost of opposing Trumpism within the Republican party.
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New Lancet report: 40 percent of US COVID deaths could have been avoided
Feb 16, 2021 06:38If the United States had death rates on par with other wealthy nations, there would have been 40 percent fewer deaths attributed to COVID-19 last year.
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Outrage as Democrats abruptly back off push for witnesses in Trump trial
Feb 16, 2021 06:34According to CNN, Senate Democratic leaders pressured House impeachment managers behind closed doors to drop the call for witness testimony in Trump’s impeachment trial.
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Donald Trump acquitted in second impeachment trial
Feb 14, 2021 14:24Donald Trump has been acquitted by the Senate in his second impeachment trial for his role in the 6 January attack on the US Capitol – a verdict that underscores the sway America’s 45th president still holds over the Republican party even after leaving office.
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This is Yemen after Biden declared an end to American support for the war
Feb 14, 2021 14:09The Biden administration sparked a sense of hope around the world that the war on Yemen could finally be over. For those on the ground though, the bombs keep falling, food is scarce and hope is in short supply.