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Norway’s Salmon Farming Dilemma (Encore)

Norway is the largest exporter of salmon in the world. And while some of those fish are wild-caught, many are raised in “fish farms”- large cylindrical pens made of nylon in the open water. Sometimes these farmed fish escape, mixing

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Dozens feared dead as passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan

Dozens are feared dead after a passenger plane carrying 67 people crashed in Kazakhstan, the country’s emergencies ministry said.

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Huge waves batter California coast: Man dead, another missing, section of pier collapses – Los Angeles Times

Huge waves batter California coast: Man dead, another missing, section of pier collapses  Los Angeles Times Photos: Santa Cruz Wharf collapse  KRON4 High swells leave a wake of destruction at the Santa Cruz Harbor  KSBW Monterey Major storm pounds California’s central coast, blamed

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Trump and Musk Want to Cut Billions From the Budget. It Won’t Be Easy. – The New York Times

Trump and Musk Want to Cut Billions From the Budget. It Won’t Be Easy.  The New York Times How Democrats kept leverage by averting a government shutdown, according to analyst  CNN Government shutdown is averted just after deadline as Congress rejects Trump’s

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Biden signs a bill officially making the bald eagle the national bird of the US – ABC News

Biden signs a bill officially making the bald eagle the national bird of the US  ABC NewsView Full Coverage on Google News

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Man accused of lighting NYC subway rider on fire told cops he ‘drinks a lot,’ prosecutor says – Gothamist

Man accused of lighting NYC subway rider on fire told cops he ‘drinks a lot,’ prosecutor says  Gothamist Suspect in fatal New York subway burning of passenger arraigned in court  CNN What to know about the death of a woman who was

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Richard Perry, record producer behind ‘You’re So Vain’ and other hits, dies at 82

A recipient of a Grammys Trustee Award in 2015, Richard Perry died at a Los Angeles hospital on Tuesday. Perry was a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds. (Image credit: Lennox McLendon)

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Trump’s Re-election Defines a New Era of American Politics

The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald Trump’s conservative populism.

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How a Young Mayor Turned Her Town Into a Hub for ‘Pig Butchering’ Scammers

WSJ got rare access to a criminal enclave in the Philippines from which gangs targeted people around the world, including Americans.

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Trump’s ‘deeply weird’ Greenland obsession exposed by columnist

With President-elect Donald Trump once again making noise about seizing Greenland from Denmark, MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown decided to examine the origins of Trump’s years-long fixation on buying the large ice-covered territory. After reviewing past reports on Trump national security

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