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EPA reverses climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions

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EPA to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases harm the environment

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FDA moves to ban food additive used in processed foods such as meats and bread

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Larry Summers to resign as Harvard University professor amid Epstein fallout

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Residents seek to end contracts between ICE and local governments

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How Xi's military purges could hamper China's ability to fight

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Trump's surgeon general pick appears before Senate in highly anticipated hearing

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