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Last holdouts are cleared from main Dakota Access pipeline protest camp

Law enforcement took control of the largest Dakota Access pipeline protest camp Thursday, arresting or moving the few dozen people who had remained in the mud and snow in one of the largest environmental protests in American history. “At 2:09 p.m., Oceti Sakowin protest camp was completely cleared by law enforcement!” the Morton County Sheriff’s

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Jaime Harrison drops out of DNC race, endorses former labor secretary

ATLANTA — South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison said Thursday that he was ending his candidacy to become head of the Democratic National Committee, leaving a race in which he failed to gain serious traction despite his longstanding ties to the party. “I know what a path to victory looks like,” Harrison said in

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Taking manatees off the endangered species list doesn’t mean we should stop protecting them

Come for the sea cow pictures, stay for the environmental policy Keith Ramos // Fish and Wildlife Service Even the fish love these big guys. The fightin’ sea cows are making a comeback. Manatees have been on the endangered species list since 1972, but in the last few years they’ve been more abundant than ever.

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Eight killed as bomb targets restaurant in Pakistan’s Lahore

Islamabad (dpa) – A bomb ripped through a high-end restaurant in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday, killing eight people, officials said, marking another attack amid a surge in violence by Islamist militants that has ended months of fragile calm. The timed device exploded during lunch hour in one of the eastern city’s upscale

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Trump adviser Steve Bannon rails at ‘corporatist, globalist media’

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The two men with the most heavily dissected relationship in President Donald Trump’s White House held a rare public appearance together Thursday and agreed on one common enemy: the media. Reince Priebus, the chief of staff who is often described as “embattled,” said he has grown “conditioned” to the media counting

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Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.

Habib Zahori was deep in the forest, his face and fingers going numb. He was lost, freezing and growing desperate by the hour. Like hundreds of refugees, Zahori was risking his life to sneak into Canada. But Zahori was not fleeing some war-torn country. He was running away from the US. Zahori worked as a

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Hundreds of scientists urge Trump to withdraw from U.N. climate-change agency

More than 300 scientists have urged President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate-change agency, warning that its push to curtail carbon dioxide threatens to exacerbate poverty without improving the environment. In a Thursday letter to the president, MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen called the United States and other nations to “change course on an

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U.S. Jewish Roundup: February 23, 2017

Reform Movement, Bend the Arc, ADL protest Trump Administration’s decision to have states decide transgender bathroom rules WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism condemn President Trump’s decision, and resulting actions by the Offices of Civil Rights of

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Australia PM Slams U.N. Resolution on Settlement, Netanyahu Hails his Stance

London, Sydney- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attacked on Wednesday the United Nations resolution that denounced Israeli settlement on occupied Palestinian territories, as he welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu on his first official visit to the country. The two countries share solid relations since 1949 but no Israeli prime minister ever carried out visits to Australia before.

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Op-Ed: Trump Should Use The Perot Model In Denouncing Anti-Semitism

I didn’t vote for Ross Perot in 1992. However, I have always remembered one line from the Independent candidate during the third presidential debate that garnered little attention. “If you hate people,” Perot declared in his Texas twang, “I don’t want your vote.” Perot didn’t proclaim himself “the least racist person there is,” or, “the

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