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Matt Cardy / Getty A Cybersecurity Breach at Equifax Left Pretty Much Everyone's Financial Data Vulnerable
For Americans who want to protect their personal information, there is no way, in our current system, to do so.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Exploding Chemical Plant Outside Houston Faces Its First Lawsuit
First responders are suing over the exposure they say they suffered following a fire and detonation on the premises of the Arkema facility, which flooded during Hurricane Harvey.
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Noah Berger / Reuters Has Climate Change Intensified 2017’s Western Wildfires?
It was supposed to be a quiet year.
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KCNA / Reuters The Options That Have Been Tried on North Korea So Far
Talks and international sanctions have had a limited impact.
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KCNA / Reuters Building an H-Bomb in Plain Sight
Usually countries build nuclear weapons in secret—but not North Korea.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Immigration Hardliners Praise Trump for Ending DACA
Advocates of reduced immigration welcomed news of the program ending Tuesday, but expressed concern over what comes next.
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Richard Vogel / AP Trump Ends Obama-Era Protection for Undocumented Immigrants
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Obama-era program shielding nearly 800,000 people brought to the U.S. as children from deportation is being rescinded.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters Mexico Plays the 'China Card'
The possibility President Trump will pull out of NAFTA has prompted his Mexican counterpart to court China.
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Spencer Platt / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Trump Prepares to End DACA
The administration may undo the program shielding unauthorized immigrants who arrived as children, rolling back a signature Obama-era initiative.
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KCNA / Reuters North Korea's Nuclear Test: What We Know and Don't Know
Preliminary data suggest the test is the most powerful conducted by Kim Jong Un’s regime.
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NASA / NOAA / Goddard Rapid Response Team Hurricane Irma Just Hit Category 3
Forecasters are monitoring the storm as it makes its way across the Atlantic, but it's too early to tell where it might strike.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How Immigration Hardliners Are Forcing Trump's Hand on DACA
The president appears poised to end the Obama administration’s protections for young illegal immigrants.
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Gregory Bull / AP A Chemical Plant Catches Fire After Harvey Flooding
Houston is the petrochemical capital of the U.S., which makes it especially vulnerable to such accidents after a natural disaster.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Why Keep State Department Special Envoys?
The secretary of state’s plan to eliminate or merge several high-profile positions has many supporters.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Will Brexit Lead to a 'Brexodus'?
The U.K. has yet to leave the European Union, but some Europeans have started leaving the U.K.
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Ina Fassbender / Reuters Trump Administration Puts on Hold an Obama-Era Desegregation Effort
The rule would have helped poor Americans move to more expensive neighborhoods with better schools.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Trump's Business Dealings Come Back to Haunt Him
A failed attempt to start a development in Moscow—which the president has denied—shows the dangers of intertwining business and politics so closely.
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David J. Phillip / AP How a Disaster’s Economic Impacts Are Calculated
Providing an early estimate of a storm’s costs is generally a pretty rough science, and Harvey is a particularly tough case.
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Jim Salter / AP How St. Louis Workers Won and Then Lost a Minimum-Wage Hike
After a Missouri law took effect on Monday, the wage floor in the city was reduced to $7.70 per hour after three months at $10 per hour—the latest case of a state cracking down on a city that had enacted a progressive policy.
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Reuters The Houston Hospital Running Out of Food
Ben Taub Hospital is surrounded by water, and an evacuation attempt failed Sunday night.
