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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of Rio's Guanabara Bay on Wednesday, not far from where events are being held at this year's Olympic Games, environmental officials said. The incident was the latest involving water quality in the bay, where sailing, open water swimming, and triathlon races are due to take place at the Games in August. "Officials found rubbish in the water and on the beach as well as a considerable number of dead fish all from the same species of sardine," the government's State Environmental Institute said in a statement....

The impending threat of radical Islam is not one that stops at America’s borders. A detailed new analysis featured in the April issue of Townhall Magazine, posted here as an online exclusive for Blaze readers, examines how Muslim radicals are aggressively using liberal courts, American businesses and outspoken activists inside our own country to implement Islamic Shariah law — an uncompromising religious code that runs counter to freedoms preserved in the American Constitution. ——————- The Shariah Threat by Kathy Jessup A judge refuses a protection order for a woman raped by her Muslim husband, ruling the man’s abuse is allowed...

Md. lawmakers hope emissions bill will set example for other states: The predicted effects of global warming in Maryland are scary: the Chesapeake Bay spilling over its shores, stronger storms and a shake-up of the species that can survive here. Some experts say the relative sea level rise here could be more than 2 feet by the end of the century, flooding many low-lying areas of Anne Arundel and Queen Anne's counties. And that potential fallout has some lawmakers in Annapolis concerned - and inspired to do something about it. "Thirty years ago, people called global warming science fiction," Sen....