News Around the Web

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  Canada Registers Sixfold Increase in US Citizens Seeking Asylum in 2017

  November 15, 2018 0

  Americans were the third largest group seeking asylum, spurred by fears they would be deported by the Trump administration By Martin Patriquin | 14 November 2018 THE GUARDIAN — Tiroude and Gislyne are Haitians by birth [...]
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  US Military Advantage Has Eroded, Study Says

  November 15, 2018 0

  By Paul Sonne and Shane Harris | 13 November 2018 SF GATE (THE WASHINGTON POST) — The United States has lost its military edge to a dangerous degree and could potentially lose a war against China [...]
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  Video Shows Group Climbing Border Fence

  November 14, 2018 0

  13 November 2018 FOX 5 — People on the Mexican side of the border could be seen climbing the fence near Border Field State Park Tuesday afternoon after part of the Central American migrant caravan arrived [...]
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  Climate Contrarian Uncovers Scientific Error, Upends Major Ocean Warming Study

  November 14, 2018 1

  By Joshua Emerson Smith | 13 November 2018 THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE — Researchers with UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Princeton University recently walked back scientific findings published last month that showed oceans have been heating [...]
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  New York City Owes Over $100 Billion for Retiree Health Care — And Only $5 Billion Set Aside

  November 13, 2018 1

  By Martin Z Braun | 1 November 2018 BLOOMBERG — New York City faces future health costs for its retired workers of $103.2 billion, an increase of $40 billion over a decade. It has about $5 billion [...]
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  Jewish Uptown Man Accused of Drawing Swastika Graffiti; Before 2016 Election, He Was Accused of Threatening to Rape a Woman — ‘You F*cking Republican!’

  November 13, 2018 2

  9 November 2018 CWB CHICAGO — An Uptown man who is charged with two counts of hate crime for allegedly drawing swastikas on fences and a garage in his neighborhood is Jewish and was arrested five days before [...]