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Brother May I Have Some Rat
Defector
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August 22, 2025
By night, spectral bats leave their roost and swoop through the tree canopy of Costa Rica, wings outstretched as far as three feet wide, in search of prey: unsuspecting mice and rats, birds called motmots, even other bats. Sometimes, after they...
We need a new theory of democracy — because this version has failed
Salon
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August 24, 2025
According to polling data, 62 percent of Americans favor the government being responsible for the health coverage of all people in the country. Sixty-five percent of Americans polled favored the infrastructure bill passed during Joe Biden’s...
Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism
The American Conservative - Washington D.C.
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August 26, 2025
The Trump administration’s deployment of more than 4,000 sailors and Marines to the southern Caribbean—reportedly to combat drug cartels—marks a dangerous escalation in its policy toward Venezuela. While President Donald Trump is right to identify...
Rare Flesh-Eating Parasite Infects U.S. Traveler In The Nation’s First-Ever Human Case
The Travel
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August 25, 2025
When most travelers pack their bags for a trip, they're focused on sightseeing, food, and making memories – not the possibility of returning home with a rare illness. Unfortunately for some, especially those traveling abroad, the risk is real....
What to know about screwworm amid US human case of flesh-eating parasite
Virgin Islands Free Press
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August 25, 2025
BA;TIMORE — A person in Maryland was recently infected by the flesh-eating New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador, US health officials confirmed this week. The blowflies primarily affect livestock — human cases are rare. In a screwworm...
Meet Our 2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners Defending their Lands Against Extractivism and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge, Rights, and Cultures
Cultural Survival - Massachusetts
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The Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF) is proud to announce our 2025 partnerships with Indigenous communities. At Cultural Survival, we value cultivating long-term relationships with our partners. The Keepers of the Earth Fund is an Indigenous-led...
Bridging the Climate Divide: Protecting Marginalized Communities from...
ImpACT International
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The global climate crisis is a defining challenge of our time, one that transcends environmental degradation to amplify existing social inequities. There is conclusive evidence that the burden of climate change disproportionately falls on...
5-year-old boy had his cancer treatments interrupted with his deportation as his family files suit against ICE
The Independent (U.S.)
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August 12, 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...
29th Annual Angel Open Golf Tournament winners announced
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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August 19, 2025
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El Salvador: you couldn’t just sit there and watch
Latin American Bureau
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August 23, 2025
In this fifth post in the CAMeNA blog, about the unique history archive in Mexico, Cornelia Gräbner describes an extraordinary set of documents which capture the most intense and dangerous phase of repression in El Salvador, leading up to the 1992...
Immigration population in US plunges for first time since 1960s amid Trump crackdown
India Blooms
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August 25, 2025
The immigration population in the US, which has been growing for the past 50 years, has declined ever since US President Donald Trump took charge as the President for the second term, a new study has revealed. The Trump administration launched a...
Rare human case of New World screwworm identified in United States after travel from El Salvador
KTBS 3 - Louisiana
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(CNN) — A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesman from the US Department of Health and Human Services said. The US Centers for Disease Control and...
Thousands face deportation to danger as Trump targets temporary protections
The Guardian
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August 22, 2025
Many thousands of immigrants living in the US who came from certain countries regarded as risky or dangerous are at the mercy of US judges and the Trump administration’s agenda to slash their work authorization and protection from deportation....
Maximum Tolerated Medical Therapy for Glaucoma: Fixed-Dose Combinations of Timolol, Dorzolamide, Brimonidine with Latanoprost Versus Timolol, Dorzolamide with Latanoprost
Dove Medical Press
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August 21, 2025
Introduction Glaucoma is a group of progressive optic neuropathies characterized by the loss of retinal ganglion cells and their axons.1 POAG is the predominant subtype in Mexico and Latin America, contributing significantly to vision loss and...
The Powerful Tool In Trump's Mass Deportation Arsenal
HuffPost
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August 12, 2025
After more than a decade of living in the United States without incident, 19-year-old Emerson Colindres, a budding soccer star who had just graduated high school, was arrested this summer during an immigration check-in and spent two weeks in a...
The Life panelists describe their relationship with God in 1 word
Global Sisters Report
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August 25, 2025
Throughout our lives, our relationship with God is constantly evolving — shaped by life's joys and struggles, and moments of clarity and doubt. It is at once deeply personal and universally human, inviting each of us into ongoing encounter and...
Colorado Employment Situation — July 2025 – Unemployment rate decreases to 4.5%
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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August 18, 2025
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This is Trump’s immigration crackdown, up close: cruel, immoral, unjust (Editorial Board Opinion)
Syracuse.com - New York
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August 10, 2025
Federal prosecutors said last week they intend to retry Honduran immigrant Doris Aleman-Bonilla on a felony charge of illegal re-entry after a jury failed to reach a verdict. A second trial would double down on the vast amount of taxpayer...
The press needs to call genocide by name, says Ahmed Alzoubi in Chile
Middle East Monitor
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August 23, 2025
In an 11-day program at Chilean universities, Ahmad Alzoubi — author of Palestinian Diaspora in Latin America: Studies on Media and Identity, by MEMO Publishers — discussed with journalists, academics, and students the harmful effects of shallow...
US agency pumps funding into crucial project in world's oceans: 'Never seen so many dedicated people rise to the occasion'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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August 10, 2025
Using previously awarded federal funding, marine life experts at the University of Miami have been hard at work searching for ways to restore Florida's famed coral reefs and to help the reefs better adapt to rising ocean temperatures. The work has...