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The deep state is comprised of people like the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch etc.


It was a relief to hear that the soccer team caught in a cave is still alive. Hoping for a safe rescue.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/asia/thai-cave-rescue-questions-intl/index.html


You may think it’s been hot where you are, but the coastal city of Quriyat (Qurayyat) in the Middle Eastern nation of Oman established a singularly unenviable heat mark on Tuesday, June 26, 2018 : a 24-hour low temperature of 42.6°C (108.7°F), including the period from local midnight to midnight. According to weather records expert Maximiliano Herrera, this sets a new world record for the hottest 24-hour-minimum temperature ever recorded.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Minimum-Temperature-426-C-1087-F-Oman-June-26-2018-New-World-Record

Dangerous U.S. Pollution Event From Heat Wave, African Dust, and Fires
Dr. Jeff Masters  ·  July 2, 2018
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Dangerous-US-Pollution-Event-Heat-Wave-African-Dust-and-Fires


May 2018 was the planet's fourth-warmest May since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Monday. NASA also rated May 2018 as the fourth-warmest May on record. NOAA found that the only warmer May months were 2016, 2015, and 2017, in that order, while NASA found the warmer Mays to be 2016, 2017, and 2014. Occasional differences in rankings between NASA and NOAA arise mostly due to how they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic, where few surface weather stations exist. The two agencies agreed that the planet's four warmest Mays in a century-plus of recordkeeping have all occurred in the past five years.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/may-2018-earths-4th-warmest-may-record


When a 45-year-old woman’s leg became caught in the gap between an Orange Line train and the platform Friday afternoon, she was in agony. The cut on her leg went down to the bone.
Beyond her pain, she had another fear. Shaking and crying, she begged people not to call an ambulance. “Do you know how much an ambulance costs?” she wept.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/07/02/woman-got-her-leg-caught-gap-orange-line-train-and-then-begged-for-ambulance-because-cost/q6gBPV8ujcfH0qLrQ6HjEJ/story.html?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter


A Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee report released on Tuesday supports three U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cyber/senate-panel-backs-intelligence-agencies-on-russia-trump-conclusions-idUSKBN1JT2YB


As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as 3 are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C.
Requiring unaccompanied minors to go through deportation alone is not a new practice. But in the wake of the Trump administration’s controversial family separation policy, more young children — including toddlers — are being affected than in the past.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/more-toddlers-appear-alone-in-court-for-deportation-under-family-separation


Immigrant families are being forced to pay massive airfares to reunite with children separated by the Trump administration
http://www.businessinsider.com/immigrant-families-paying-airfares-to-reunite-with-separated-children-2018-7


Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt repeatedly asked his assistants to pay for his hotel reservations on their personal credit cards, and then refused to pay them back, a current and former EPA official told The Washington Post.
In one case, Sydney Hupp, Pruitt's 25-year-old former executive scheduler, personally paid for a $600 hotel reservation for Pruitt's family vacation during the presidential transition, according to former deputy chief of staff Kevin Chmielewski.
Pruitt reportedly failed to reimburse Hupp, so Pruitt's chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, left Hupp $600 in cash in her drawer.
http://www.businessinsider.com/scott-pruitt-had-staffers-book-hotels-and-then-never-paid-them-back-2018-7


A Canadian company is looking to begin mining in land that was previously protected as part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
President Clinton established the monument in 1996, but in December President Trump cut the 1.87 million-acre site nearly in half, removing many of the federal protections.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/393540-canadian-company-to-begin-mining-in-land-that-used-to-be-protected


Former Kentucky judge and conservative political activist Timothy Nolan was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to human trafficking and other sex crimes.
A special prosecutor said Tim Nolan, 71, targeted young women and gave them opioids and threatened to withhold the drugs or call law enforcement if they didn't perform sex acts.
Prosecutor Barbara Whaley read statements from some of the women in court. Seven of the 19 victims were under 16 years old.
The former Campbell County District Court judge also served as co-chairman for Pres. Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 presidential election.
http://www.wsmv.com/story/38123879/ex-kentucky-judge-sentenced-to-prison-for-human-trafficking


Dozens of wildfires tore across wide swaths of Alaska, California, Colorado and other western states Tuesday, with meteorologists warning of more blazes due to strong winds and low humidity.
Nearly 60 fires have consumed more than 703,000 acres, from Alaska -- where 19 large blazes were reported -- to California, Colorado and Utah, where at least six wildfires continue to burn in each state, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/us/western-state-wildfires/index.html