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Maxwell: Orlando Marine leads veteran push to get active military off ICE duty
Orlando Sentinel - Florida
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August 16, 2025
If you’ve ever watched disaster movies or dystopian science fiction, you’re probably familiar with a plot device screenwriters use to let audiences know things have reached the point of disaster — namely for the fictional president to order U.S....
Opinion: Who's really behind "debt trap"?
Xinhua News Agency
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by Xinhua writer Gao Wencheng LONDON, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- For years, some Western politicians and media have been pushing a rhetoric: China is driving developing countries into a "debt trap." But a new report from London-based charity Debt Justice...
Judge raises bail, orders ICE to return homicide suspect to Dane County
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin
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MADISON — A Dane County judge raised bail to $5 million for a Honduran woman accused of killing two teens in a drunken-driving crash and ordered federal immigration authorities to return her to county custody. State prosecutors are fighting for...
Call for entries: The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2026
The Financial Times
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August 19, 2025
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Financial Times is compiling its seventh annual ranking of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies, to be published in...
‘We’re Taking Down a 600 Million-Dollar International Car-Theft Ring’
Rolling Stone
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August 19, 2025
In recent years, collectible cars — rare vehicles representing milestones in automotive history — have skyrocketed in value as high-end art, becoming a newly-sought trophy for titans of industry. Yet just as with any art, the growing demand for...
New World Screwworm: What to know about the parasite threatening the food supply
Washington Examiner
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August 19, 2025
Multiple departments in the Trump administration are working to combat the proliferation of a flesh-eating parasite quickly spreading northward through Central America and threatening the United States’s food supply. U.S. Agriculture Department...
Record Number of Submissions for Sanfic’s Santiago Lab, as Chilean Project Market Builds International Profile
Variety
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August 18, 2025
The Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) reported 98.39% more applications this year to its fiction and documentary labs from some 32 countries. Out of 240 applications, 16 fiction projects and 15 documentaries were selected. “Unlike...
ICE has stopped reporting number of transgender people in custody
Prism
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August 19, 2025
Immigration officials no longer report the number of transgender people in their custody, as advocates warn that the decision hampers efforts to ensure queer people’s safety in the nation’s rapidly escalating immigration detention regime. The Vera...
Pneumococcal vaccine trial aims to provide more protection to babies
EurekAlert!
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A new vaccine for pneumococcal disease will be tested under an international trial aiming to provide greater protection to babies against the common infection that causes pneumonia, sinusitis and meningitis. The Murdoch Children’s Research...
International study tests promising vaccine against 21 strains of pneumococcus
Medical News
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August 19, 2025
A new vaccine for pneumococcal disease will be tested under an international trial aiming to provide greater protection to babies against the common infection that causes pneumonia, sinusitis and meningitis. The Murdoch Children's Research...
A burning issue in South America: how to ensure an economic future for people affected by extreme weather events
Equal Times
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August 19, 2025
In 2024, Bolivia burned with a thousand fires. These wildfires, which are an annual occurrence, were the worst on record, with 12.6 million hectares, four times the size of a country like Belgium, going up in smoke. Many Indigenous communities saw...
IICA presidency candidates to be examined by agriculture ministers from 12 countries
Dominica News Online
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August 18, 2025
Dominica News Online - Monday, August 18th, 2025 at 10:25 AM The contest for the leadership of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), a prominent organization responsible for shaping agricultural policies and...
Morocco to Join 66th Edition of UNITAS Naval Exercise in the US
Morocco World News
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August 19, 2025
Rabat – Morocco will take part in the 66th edition of UNITAS, the world’s oldest multinational maritime exercise, scheduled to run from September 15 to October 6, 2025, along the American East Coast. The large-scale exercise, whose name means...
‘Green is Gold’
Dawn
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WANG XIAOYING/CHINA DAILY Twenty years ago, Xi Jinping, then Party secretary of Zhejiang province, visited a village in Anji county in the province, where polluting quarries were being closed down. He told the locals that it made sense to do so,...
Mexico’s migration policy isn’t perfect, but it’s more effective than the United States’: Here’s why
Mexico News Daily
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August 18, 2025
As a U.S. citizen who lives in Mexico part of the year, I pay close attention to the presidents of both countries and their perspectives on immigration issues and border policy. And I’m particularly interested in immigration because I grew up...
Voices: I watched the police arrest hundreds of peaceful protesters – I fear Britain is on a slippery slope towards authoritarianism
The Independent
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August 14, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Colorado State Patrol Relaunches Auto Theft Victim Assistance – Funding to offset costs associated with the crime of motor vehicle theft
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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August 16, 2025
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The program making some Baltimore youth top job candidates in a tough economy
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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Young adults are finding it especially tough to secure employment in today’s job market. This spring has featured the highest unemployment for people ages 16-24 since the pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The state of the U.S....
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Vital CO2-Monitoring Satellites
WebProNews
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August 6, 2025
In a move that has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, the White House has directed NASA to prepare plans for the deliberate destruction of two key satellites dedicated to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide. These instruments,...
New beverage launches: Hendrick’s, The Macallan and more
Beverage Daily
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New product development (NPD) in the beverage industry is essential for driving growth, staying competitive, and meeting evolving consumer demands. As tastes shift and health, sustainability, and lifestyle trends gain momentum, brands must...