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Kamala Harris has been in politics for 18 years, yet still can't quite figure out how to keep staff. The departure of two top travel advance-women, just as she's heading for the border in a hastily announced trip to get there before President Trump does, suggests that things are getting very bad indeed. ... Two top aides who oversee travel for Vice President Kamala Harris are departing, leaving the vice president with her critical support staff in flux as she seeks to ramp up travel ahead of big vaccine and voting rights pushes she is planning through July. ... why...

International efforts to combat global warming are so broken that it's come to this: hoovering massive amounts of carbon dioxide out of the sky. A body of scientists convened under the auspices of the United Nations is giving more weight to the idea that vacuuming vast stores of CO2 from the skies and burying it in the ground may be necessary to limit the temperature rise to the internationally agreed safe level of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels. The plan's not quite like a giant thermostat for the whole globe, but the metaphor's not completely off either.

(This is the total article but apparently needs to be excerpted. Also needs account to be accessed. That's how the lamestream media forces you to read their version of the news.) A Freeport man has been slapped with criminal charges after he tried to upgrade his flight at Kennedy Airport by claiming to be in the U.S. Army, prosecutors said Monday. Rock Diaz, 22, of Frankel Avenue was released on his own recognizance after his arraignment Saturday in Queens Criminal Court, the Queens district attorney's office said. The criminal complaint against Diaz said he was wearing a U.S. Army uniform,...

Tough new rules imposed by the State Water Board Tuesday would force 19 coastal power plants to begin phasing out their reliance on ocean-water cooling systems — raising the specter of giant towers erected along I-5 to cool the San Onofre nuclear plant. San Onofre and the other plants, including the AES plant in Huntington Beach, were given deadlines to make technological updates to their cooling system by the Water Board, which voted to approve the new rules late Tuesday. The deadlines are years away — for San Onofre, it’s 2022. The new rules could force many plants to switch...

This poster doesn't get it. Conservatives are so consistently, so often, so very right. So clearly. About so many things!! Why is it, so many are so blind to what is happening to our nation, as a result of our historically STUPID trade policies? Is it that conservativism is by definition a resistance to too much change, and that "free trade" was a cherished belief for so long there's simply a resistence to noticing it's become dangerous?

As part of the Fiat - Chrysler alliance, the Italian carmaker will bring several new models in the United States but the 500 mini car will be the only one to be sold under the Fiat badge. The car is going to be produced by Chrysler in Mexico and, according to people close to the matter, the US-based former bankrupt automaker has already required suppliers to make sure that their parts are enough for around 100,000 Fiat 500. The Fiat 500 produced in Mexico will be sold in the US, Canada and South America, Bloomberg reported, with initial production goals...

Police in Germany are warning motorists that sucking a Fishermen's Friend could get them into trouble. It comes after a 24-year-old driver was found to be over the legal drink-drive limit during a routine control in Munich. He was taken to the police station where blood tests found he had no alcohol in his system. The man was released after officers found the strongest thing he had taken was a Fisherman's Friend. Forensic doctor Thomas Gilg said the essential oils contained in the throat sweets reacted in the same way as alcohol on hand-held breathalysers. He said in tests they...

Self-explained.

  In the U.S. House of Representatives right NOW ! ( H.R. 2738) to implement the United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement, and for consideration of the bill ( H.R. 2739) to implement the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement

Junk food's best consumers are kids -- increasingly obese kids. So that's not the dinner bell you hear. It's an alarm bell raising Oreo-size goose bumps for the giant makers of now-unfashionable sugary, fatty and calorie-laden foods. All are faced with this new reality: As concern about obesity rises, they're within a few cookie crumbs of becoming the next Big Tobacco for trial lawyers. ''You can't stop tobacco from being unhealthy,'' says Sam Hirsch, an attorney whose obese clients filed lawsuits against McDonald's. ''But you can make food less unhealthy.'' Consumer groups are screaming. Parents are steaming. Lawyers are suing....

One might miss next payroll, commissioner saysBy RICHARD JUSTICE MILWAUKEE -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said Wednesday his sport's debt problems have grown so severe that one team is in danger of being unable to pay its players Monday when checks are scheduled to be distributed. If it happens, that team likely would be forced out of business, thereby throwing baseball into turmoil at a time when the owners and players are engaged in increasingly angry labor negotiations. Major league players typically are paid on the first and 15th of every month during the regular season, and Monday, July 15,...

Youth worker charged over 'child toe-sucking attacks' The head of a US youth recreation programme is facing allegations he has sucked the toes of over 40 children. The police were alerted after a co-worker claimed to have seen Trenton Veches sucking one of the children's toes while working at Newport Beach in California. Detectives launched an investigation and now allege the 31-year-old sucked the toes of more than 40 children, videotaping many of the incidents. Veches is being held at the Orange County Jail on $500,000 bail and is facing multiple charges of child molestation. He has pleaded not guilty...