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A new study has added to mounting evidence against a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, or “neonics.” Linked in numerous studies to bee declines, the new research looks at neonics’ impacts on surface water. Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey looked at 9 rivers and streams in the U.S. Midwest—home to vast plantings of corn…

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason ReidHarry Reid says he’s cancer free White House gets jolt from strong jobs report Murkowski, Mattis criticism ratchets up pressure on GOP over Trump MORE tore into the Democratic National Committee (DNC), calling it a “worthless” organization that doesn’t do enough to help state parties. Click Here: cheap…

By Kacie Albert, Elite Level Sports Marketing WASHINGTON D.C. – The 133-pound bout at the 2012 NWCA All-Star Classic presented by the United States Marine Corps will feature Chris Dardanes of Minnesota wrestling against Aaron (A.J.) Schopp of Edinboro, rekindling a rivalry from the 2012 NCAA Championships between the redshirt sophomores. Dardanes began his rookie…

An effort in the House of Representatives to prevent combat operations in Iraq, championed by war critic Rep. Barbara Lee (D–CA), was Thursday night, in what critics warn further clears the path for a new war. Lee on Thursday introduced amendments to the 2015 Department of Defense appropriations bill to cut off federal funding for…

The latest documents released from a trove leaked to journalist Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden reveal that GCHQ has created a virtual toolbox of online hacker tactics that allow British intelligence agents to “manipulate” online communities by seeding the Internet “with false information” and conducting the kind of malicious attacks on networks that send civilian…

The death toll in the Gaza Strip has now passed 1,200 people since Israel began bombing on July 8 and the Palestinian Ministry of Health reports Tuesday that more than 100 people were killed in the fourteen hours from overnight Monday into morning as mosques, homes, and other structures were hit during a sharp intensification…

A drone strike on a residential house in Yemen killed three men and wounded two women, officials confirmed on Sunday. Security officials told AFP that the drone, reportedly targeting al-Qaeda “militants,” struck the property in Marib in the south-central province of the country. The United States is the only country operating drones over Yemen, though…

The number of Fukushima youth diagnosed with definitive or suspected thyroid gland cancer now reaches 104, according to a Japanese newspaper’s analysis of government data. There were 300,000 total youth in the Fukushima prefecture who were aged 18 or younger at the time of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Of the 104 children whose government-administered…

Denial of food and medical care. Cells and floors soiled with blood, urine, and feces. Excessive force by prison guards. Weeks, months, and years in solitary confinement. These are the conditions found at a “special needs” for-profit prison, the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, which is tasked by the state’s department of corrections with incarcerating 1,200…

The 2016 election served as a wakeup call to pundits, pollsters and all other members of the established media. Both the operations and results of the president election proved how dramatically the standard devices used to communicate one’s message in a political context have changed.    Love him or hate him, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate…