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Texans on Southern Border Vow to Fight Trump’s Efforts to Take Their Homes for Border Wall

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McKinsey’s Complicity in Immigration Cruelty

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Trump Administration Moves to End Food Stamps for 750,000

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Senate Democrats Propose Sweeping Data Privacy Bill

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Why the 2020 Election Will Be Historic for Climate Change

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Climate Planners Turn to Virtual Reality and Hope Seeing Is Believing

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Teen Used ‘Ghost Gun’ in California High School Shooting

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Stalled Weather Patterns Will Get Bigger Due to Climate Change: Study

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Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat; Millions at Risk

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Blueprints for 3D-Printed Guns Banned Online

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Venice Floods: Climate Change Behind Highest Tide in 50 Years

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Climate Change Could End Mortgages as We Know Them

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Microsoft to Apply California Privacy Rules for All Users Nationwide

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Deadly Virus Spreads Among Marine Mammals as Arctic Ice Melts

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