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Shoot them in the legs, US President Donald Trump suggested: Inside his border war
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Facebook has taken down the popular 'World USA' page with almost 1 million followers after being exposed as a Ukrainian-based operation targeting older Americans with pro-Trump content
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How a big enough news story — like impeachment — could warp the polls
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US President Donald Trump pressed Australian leader to help William Barr investigate Robert Mueller inquiry’s origins
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'Everything you're seeing is deception.' How right-wing media talks about impeachment
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The whistleblower complaint alleging that Trump solicited foreign interference from Ukraine has been released
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Wall Street Democratic donors warn the party: We’ll sit out, or back Trump, if you nominate Elizabeth Warren
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Health insurance that doesn’t cover the bills has flooded the market under Trump
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Nancy Pelosi plans formal impeachment inquiry of US President Donald Trump
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How decades of LA smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution
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Mike Pompeo calls attacks on Saudi Arabia ‘act of war’ as Donald Trump tightens Iran sanctions
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The real Donald Trump is a character on TV
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Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right?
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What college admissions offices really want - Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all
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Volfefe index
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US President Donald Trump fires national security adviser John Bolton over foreign policy disagreements
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A top US financier of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell is a driving force behind Amazon deforestation
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Baby Trump balloon flies over Copenhagen despite canceled visit
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Uncertainty about US President Donald Trump's trade war with China and Brexit are creating a "flying blind" economy
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President Trump tweets sensitive surveillance image of Iran
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Worst weather experience?
Since it's the peak of tropical storm season again, this thread is open for all to share stories and thoughts about weather experiences. Not necessarily concerns about climate change, but the...
Since it's the peak of tropical storm season again, this thread is open for all to share stories and thoughts about weather experiences. Not necessarily concerns about climate change, but the incidents you've had personally, and whatever you've learned about preparation, resilience, and recovery.
I'm no longer a Florida resident, but my contacts are blowing up with concern over Hurricane Dorian.
I've been watching the storm on this nifty site, which has great tools and visualisations to satisfy the most avid weather geeks.
Dorian is likely to be another devastating, small-region, high-intensity buzzsaw, like last year's Hurricane Michael, which practically erased towns in the Florida panhandle, or the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. [I'm not really a good person - I'm having more than a little schadenfreude that Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort is near the center of the storm's predicted path. But I'm not the only person who thought of that.]
According to the Insurance Information Institute, Florida has nearly $600 billion dollars of single family housing at risk from a Category 5 hurricane, leaving aside loss of life and injury.
My stories, compressed for those who've read this before
Some of my friends and colleagues have families still recovering from the impacts of 2017's Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, and Maria.
While I had to deal with these storms' impacts to infrastructure professionally, the hurricanes didn't have enormous personal impact. I was mainly supporting friends or covering for colleagues struggling to help family in Texas, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Islands. Our house was eight miles from the coast, so we only dealt with a downed tree and other cleanup, a few hours without power, and some blocked roads.
Because I have dumb hobbies, the most extreme weather dangers I ever encountered were while kayaking and canoeing. Five years ago, I was on a guided ocean kayaking trip that ran into an unpredicted storm squall. Perfect blue skies and calm one minute; near darkness, huge waves, practically solid rain, and 40-knot winds the next. The party got scattered all over half a dozen of the 10,000 Islands. I struggled to get off the windward side of a long isle, so the wind banged my kayak into mangroves for an hour, then I was paddling furiously to avoid being swept into the Gulf of Mexico. But we all survived without major harm, the guide managed to reconnect us without calling for rescue, and we arrived at our destination with good stories. I can only imagine what it's like to be exposed to worse conditions in a hurricane.
Up to that time, the most dangerous weather I'd run into was snow and ice storms. When I was a kid, the Blizzard of 1978 left my family stranded, without phones, power or heat, for five days. We had a fireplace, plenty of hardwood, and an ample store of dried and canned provisions, so it felt more like a rustic adventure than the dire situation it could have been. My brother and I thought 10-foot snowdrifts were the greatest fun ever - we spent more time outside than in, "helping" to dig out by making snow forts and tunnels with the neighbors' kids. Of course, it was followed with a spring of chores like putting up half a kilometer of snow fences, learning to drive a 40-hp farm tractor, and setting up a ham radio antenna and generator, as my city-raised parents had come to grasp what rural life really entailed.
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Trump plans to open US consulate in Greenland despite row over offer to buy
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Operation Sentinel – Trump's spat with Denmark could cost him against Iran
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US patriotic correctness will doom us all – Drew Magary on the Trump administration’s troopification of everything
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US President Donald Trump says he's raising tariffs on China after its retaliation
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Are terrorism watch lists expanding under Trump?
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Trump has defected to the autocrats
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Donald Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
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Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale
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Danish prime minister calls Trump's interest in buying Greenland 'absurd'
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Trump’s foreign policy crisis arrives
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Megan Rapinoe: 'We're everything Trump loves – except that we're powerful women'
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Trump says he wants to buy Greenland – but Denmark isn't selling
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Surrogate Angels of Death—What to make of the First Lady holding the motherless child and youngest survivor of the El Paso massacre.
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Universal scraps 'The Hunt' release following gun violence uproar
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Meet Thomas Cullen, the Trump-appointed US Attorney who's putting white supremacists in jail using an anti-riot statute passed in the 1960s to rein in leftist Vietnam War protesters
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There are growing signs that something truly horrific is about to happen in Hong Kong, and President Trump has essentially given China’s rulers a green light to crush the pro-democracy protests.
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Former FBI agent says agency is “hamstrung” by Trump in investigating white supremacist movements
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Cesar Sayoc, who mailed explosive devices to Trump’s critics, sentenced to 20 years in prison
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Trump speaks following El Paso and Dayton shootings
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Donald Trump to be given official state visit to Denmark
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US DOJ’s immigration office routinely distributing Breitbart articles
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Donald Trump sent the US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs to Stockholm to monitor the A$AP Rocky court proceedings
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The truth about Deloitte
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Trump says Daniel Coats, director of national intelligence, to step down
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Would Donald Trump be president if all Americans actually voted?
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Meet the man who created the fake presidential seal — a former Republican fed up with Trump
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Pro-Donald Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft
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Trump’s Budget Deal Shows Deficits Don’t Matter Anymore
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