Critics are questioning why the CEO of a Texas nonprofit children’s shelter that called police on Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley for trying to enter the facility, where detained immigrant children are held, is being paid as much as $770,860 a year.

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A major wildfire is sweeping through the Chernobyl nuclear disaster area. The authorities have deployed dozens of fire trucks as firefighting aircraft bombard the radioactive exclusion zone with massive amounts of water.
The fire inside the Chernobyl ‘dead zone,’ which is now part of Ukraine, started on Tuesday morning, when dry grass was ignited, local emergency services said in a statement. The wildfire subsequently reached a forest, where up to 10 hectares (24 acres) are now in flames.

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Mother Nature’s wrath came down on an American Airlines plane after a hail storm shattered its windshield and damaged its nose cone, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing.
American Airlines flight AA1897, which departed from San Antonio just after midnight on Sunday, was only in the air for one hour before the pilots declared an emergency. That emergency was the hail storm wreaking serious damage to the aircraft’s windshield and nose cone.

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Giant cracks won’t stop fissuring the ground of Kenya in recent weeks. The last geological anomaly opened up right in the slopes of Elgeyo escarpment, where thousands of people now live in fear of being evacuated or being swallowed by the very unstable and moving ground.

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I have found several locations in this chain of islands that are very interesting. At least two different sites show proof of having an ancient civilization being present in the area. This region is actually what is left of a massive mini-continent that was mostly submerged after rising ocean waters.
The two areas are similar in design and show clear indications of being worked by man. There are also no roads or access ways up to these locations. The french science centers and locations are near the ports and waterways. The entire landscape is rather stunning.
This is a location that most people don’t even realize exists. And there are no current reports of anything going on on these ridges or sites. There is also no info on any megalithic or ancient sites being discover on these ridges.
I will continue to update as i get more info.

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Now that the Trump global trade war ceasefire is over with both allies (Canada, EU, Mexico) and adversaries (China), the hot takes are coming in, and none more exhaustive than a note by Goldman Sachs released overnight, in which economist Alec Phillips writes that less than two weeks after Steve Mnuchin declared that the “trade war is on hold,” a statement which China trade hawk Peter Navarro subsequently blasted as inaccurate, Trump’s policy has shifted substantially and “following trade announcements over the last few days, the trade war does not appear to be “on hold” but simply “on”, leaving even longtime observers of trade policy confused about the direction from here.”

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It’s not just housing prices driving the exodus, of course. Punitive taxes – more than twice as much as some other states, are eating away at disposable income. Nearby Arizona’s income tax rate is 4.54% vs. California’s 9.3%, while the new tax bill may accelerate the exodus.

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The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that a device used to eavesdrop on cell phones and other electronic devices was detected near the White House, prompting concerns that it may have been used to spy on key government officials – including President Trump’s non-secure iPhones.

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Visa said the outage was caused by a hardware failure and was not a result of “unauthorised access or malicious event”.

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Oregon’s emergency alert systems blasted a cryptic alert to cellphones around the capital city, panicking residents by telling them simply “Civil Emergency” and “Prepare for Action” and leaving off that the threat was toxic algae at a local water supply.

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Unable to win concessions from from its trading partners ahead of the Friday deadline, the US has introduced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union.
The new 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico come into force at midnight (04:00 GMT, Friday), according to US Commerce Secretary Ross.

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County Mayor Harry Kim issued the warning as the rivers of molten rock threatened to engulf entire neighbourhoods on the eastern side of Big Island.

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