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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Looming Superfund Nightmare
As unprecedented hurricanes assault coastal U.S. communities, residents and experts fear the storms could unleash contamination the EPA has tried to keep at bay.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters An Ousted NSC Official Is Joining the House Intelligence Committee Staff
Derek Harvey, forced out of the White House this summer, is set to work for one of the committees central to the congressional Russia investigations.
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Reuters / Gregg Newton More Than 10 Million People Lost Power in Florida
Thanks to Hurricane Irma, the southwest of the state’s electrical grid will need a “wholesale rebuild.”
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Wilfredo Lee / AP Why a Hurricane Like Irma Poses a Particular Challenge to Florida
The storm’s enormous size, spanning both coasts of the state, could slow the rescue and recovery efforts, officials warned on Sunday.
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Henry Romero / Reuters The Uncertainties of Being Asked to Work During a Hurricane
As some people evacuate for Irma, they wonder if leaving town might cost them their jobs.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Congress Passes Harvey Aid and Seals Trump's Deal With Democrats
Despite a Republican split, the 316-90 vote on Friday will send $15.25 billion to Texas and Louisiana, prevent a government shutdown, and lift the debt ceiling for three months.
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SLIDER by RAMMB / CIRA @ CSU Watch Cargo Ships Skitter Away From Hurricane Irma
Nobody wants to be in the path of this mammoth storm.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters The Banality of the Equifax Breach
With over half of the entire U.S. adult population potentially exposed, what’s left to do but shrug and sigh?
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Matt Cardy / Getty A Cybersecurity Breach at Equifax Left Pretty Much Everyone's Financial Data Vulnerable
For Americans who want to protect their personal information, there is no way, in our current system, to do so.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Exploding Chemical Plant Outside Houston Faces Its First Lawsuit
First responders are suing over the exposure they say they suffered following a fire and detonation on the premises of the Arkema facility, which flooded during Hurricane Harvey.
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Noah Berger / Reuters Has Climate Change Intensified 2017’s Western Wildfires?
It was supposed to be a quiet year.
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KCNA / Reuters The Options That Have Been Tried on North Korea So Far
Talks and international sanctions have had a limited impact.
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KCNA / Reuters Building an H-Bomb in Plain Sight
Usually countries build nuclear weapons in secret—but not North Korea.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Immigration Hardliners Praise Trump for Ending DACA
Advocates of reduced immigration welcomed news of the program ending Tuesday, but expressed concern over what comes next.
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Richard Vogel / AP Trump Ends Obama-Era Protection for Undocumented Immigrants
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Obama-era program shielding nearly 800,000 people brought to the U.S. as children from deportation is being rescinded.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters Mexico Plays the 'China Card'
The possibility President Trump will pull out of NAFTA has prompted his Mexican counterpart to court China.
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Spencer Platt / Getty / Katie Martin / … Trump Prepares to End DACA
The administration may undo the program shielding unauthorized immigrants who arrived as children, rolling back a signature Obama-era initiative.
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KCNA / Reuters North Korea's Nuclear Test: What We Know and Don't Know
Preliminary data suggest the test is the most powerful conducted by Kim Jong Un’s regime.
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NASA / NOAA / Goddard Rapid Response Team Hurricane Irma Just Hit Category 3
Forecasters are monitoring the storm as it makes its way across the Atlantic, but it's too early to tell where it might strike.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How Immigration Hardliners Are Forcing Trump's Hand on DACA
The president appears poised to end the Obama administration’s protections for young illegal immigrants.
