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Canada ignored warnings of virus infecting farmed and wild salmon
Canada was warned in 2012 by its own scientists that a virus was infecting both farmed and wild salmon, but successive governments ignored the expert advice, saying for years that risks to salmon were low. Justin Trudeau’s government has said it will phase out open-pen industrial fish farms off the coast of British Columbia by […]
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‘A senseless tragedy’: woman dies after bid to climb US border wall
Border patrol officials and the Cochise county sheriff’s office investigating cause of death of the 32-year-old woman A Mexican woman attempting to climb the US border wall in eastern Arizona died after her leg became trapped in a climbing harness and she was left hanging upside down, authorities said. Border patrol officials and the Cochise county sheriff’s […]
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‘Today is absolutely historic’: legal marijuana sales roll out in New Jersey
For customers at the Apothecarium dispensary, one of 13 medicinal marijuana stores in New Jersey, 4/20, the unofficial celebration of all things marijuana, came a day late. On Thursday, 21 April, recreational use of cannabis was legalized throughout New Jersey, allowing anyone 21 or older to legally purchase marijuana. Move over, Giuliani: how loopholes sparked a golden age of […]
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Prince Edward and Sophie postpone visit to Grenada at short notice
A planned visit by the Earl and Countess of Wessex to Grenada has been postponed at the 11th hour, just one day before the couple embark on their six-day platinum jubilee tour of the Caribbean and weeks after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s controversial visit to the region. No explanation for the late postponement was […]
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Ex-president of Honduras extradited to US on drugs charges
US Drug Enforcement Administration agents have extradited the Honduran former president Juan Orlando Hernández to New York, where he will face federal drug trafficking and weapons charges. Honduran national police delivered a handcuffed Hernández to DEA agents at the Tegucigalpa airport just over two months after he was arrested outside his home on 15 February following an […]
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The daily battle to keep people alive as fentanyl ravages San Francisco’s Tenderloin
It’s 9am in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district and sleeping bodies line the sidewalks as Felanie Castro sets out on her route in Glide Memorial church’s harm reduction van. Along Ellis Street, hungry people queue up for the church’s daily breakfast of buns, hard-boiled eggs and plastic-wrapped muffins. Down the block, a fire department truck, part of […]
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Texas butterfly center targeted by far-right conspiracy theorists to reopen
There’s a legend in south Texas involving the Monarch butterfly, the magnificent insect with the tiger markings. The Monarch typically arrives in the Rio Grande alley on its annual migratory trek in early November. That’s when people on both sides of the border celebrate Day of the Dead, a sacrosanct holiday in which residents honor dead relatives […]
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Person sets themselves on fire outside US supreme court
A person set themselves on fire outside the US Supreme Court on Friday, a spokeswoman said – the second incident to raise alarm near the Capitol in Washington in a week. “At approximately 6:30 p.m., an individual went onto the plaza in front of the Supreme Court building and set themselves on fire,” Supreme Court […]
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Trump says he ‘never claimed responsibility’ for Jan. 6 and reaffirms support for Kevin McCarthy after a leaked call revealed he criticized the former president
Recently released audio recordings reveal McCarthy criticized Trump following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.Trump also denied he’d claimed responsibility for Jan. 6, as McCarthy asserted in the audio clips. Former President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday following the release of a leaked call in which […]
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Growing US wildfires ‘a very chaotic situation’, expert says
Wildfires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and are threatening several small villages in New Mexico as part of a “very chaotic situation” in the US south-west, according to an expert. More than 1,600 firefighters are battling six blazes in New Mexico and three in Arizona that have consumed more than 100 square […]