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Millions Of Honeybees Dead In South Carolina Town After Zika Pesticide Spraying

‘I just couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that we spray poison from the sky,’ one beekeeper said.

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A single local beekeeper lost 46 hives, or 2.5 million bees. (Photo: Flowertown Bee Farm and Supplies/Facebook)

Millions of honeybees are dead in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as a result of spraying the area with the controversial pesticide naled on Sunday afternoon, which local officials did in an effort to combat Zika-spreading mosquitoes. "The pattern [of death] matched acute pesticide poisoning," the Washington Post reports. [...] if that much

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Mexico ‘Furious’ About Trump Visit

Mexicans are baffled that President Enrique Peña Nieto is meeting with U.S. presidential candidate who referred to Mexican immigrants as ‘criminals and rapists’

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A man dresses a donkey to resemble Donald Trump in preparation for the costume competition at the annual donkey festival in Otumba, Mexico state, Mexico

When news broke late Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had accepted Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's invitation to meet in Mexico City on Wednesday, the reaction in Mexico was swift and "furious," according to New York Timesreporter Elisabeth Malkin. Trump, who has called Mexican immigrants "criminals and rapists"

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Heavyweights Of Academia & Activism Condemn Brazil’s Manufactured Coup In Open Letter

“Brazil has only emerged from dictatorship some 30 years ago and these events could set back the country’s progress towards social and economic inclusion by decades”

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Thousands of demonstrators march during a protest organized by the workers roofless movement, against Brazil's acting President Michel Temer, and in support of Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, May 12, 2016.

Naomi Klein, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Arundhati Roy, and 17 other human rights activists, intellectuals, and public figures on Wednesday sent a letter to the Brazilian government condemning the impeachment of the country's President Dilma Rousseff, and demanding that Brazil's senate "respect the October 2014 electoral process

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Private Firm Selling ‘Centralized And Weaponized’ Personal Data On ‘Every American Adult’

“We have data on that 21-year-old who’s living at home with mom and dad.”

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A man looks at his cell phone as he walks on the street.

The fight for internet privacy has focused much of its attention on government surveillance, but mass data collection is done by private companies as well—and one such firm has "centralized and weaponized" all that information for its customers, Bloomberg reports on Friday. In fact, it has already built a profile on "every American adult,"

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Watch A Year’s Worth Of Trump Supporters Spouting Vitriol, Racism, Fascist Rhetoric

In a three-minute video published by the New York Times late Wednesday, a collection of clips from the divisive nominee’s rallies throughout the past year

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Bob McNamara of Spillville, Iowa, and others, listen to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Electric Park Ballroom, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

It's no secret that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump fills his speeches with nationalism and xenophobia. And in a three-minute video published by the New York Times late Wednesday, a collection of clips from the divisive nominee's rallies throughout the past year reveals how Trump'schilling rhetoric is being channeled by his

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Court Rules NC Voter ID Law ‘Intentionally Discriminatory’

‘With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to eliminate voting practices disproportionately used by African-Americans’

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A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina's controversial voter ID law, ruling that the 2013 law was created "with discriminatory intent." Civil rights groups hailed the decision as a major victory. "With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to eliminate voting practices disproportionately used by

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Gov’t Amasses Riot Police, Military Gear, And Opens Makeshift Prisons To Prepare For RNC

Cleveland opens up extra space in jails, courts, and shuts down local university to house thousands of riot police and military weaponry as FBI and Homeland Security warn of “radical activists”

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A police officer raises his weapon during a protest at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Kathryn Grim)

Authorities in Cleveland, Ohio, are adding fuel to an already "combustible" atmosphere, some activists say, as the city readies extra jail space and courtrooms and shuts down a local university to house 1,700 riot police and their weapons in preparation for demonstrations at next week's Republican Party convention. Democracy Now! reported

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