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Trump administration sabotages major conservation effort, defying Congress

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Revealed: federal support to research centers cut off as scientists fear years of successful work will go ‘down the drain’

Scientists and officials around the US have told the Guardian that the Trump administration has withdrawn funding for a large, successful conservation program – in direct contradiction of instructions from Congress.

Unique in scale and ambition, the program comprises 22 research centers that tackle big-picture issues affecting huge swaths of the US, such as climate change, flooding and species extinction. They are known as Landscape Conservation Cooperatives – or were, because 16 of them are now on indefinite hiatus or have dissolved.

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‘Very smart people’: Trump adviser defends Cain and Moore Fed picks

Defends sex abuser and deadbeat? Pimping for profit!

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Larry Kudlow insisted Herman Cain and Stephen Moore are worthy and brushed off questions about their qualifications

Donald Trump’s controversial picks for the board of the Federal Reserve are “very smart people” worthy of the honour, a senior economic adviser insisted on Sunday while brushing off questions about the two men’s qualifications and past behaviour.

Related: Officials forced way in to Stephen Moore home after failure to pay ex-wife debts

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Trump under fire over Islamophobia after man threatens to kill Ilhan Omar

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Ocasio-Cortez also makes direct link between controversial remarks by Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro and threat against Omar

Donald Trump and Fox News are coming under fire for contributing to a climate of Islamophobia, following the arrest of a supporter of the president who threatened to kill Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota who was one of the first Muslim women elected to the US Congress.

Related: Ilhan Omar: man arrested after he made death threat – then left contact details

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Identifying separated migrant families may take two years, US government says

Biggest shame of all!

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  • Trump administration outlines plan in response to lawsuit
  • Thousands of children were taken from their parents at border

It could take the US government up to two years to identify potentially thousands of children who were separated from their parents by the authorities at the southern border, the government said in a court filing.

The filing late on Friday outlined for the first time the Trump administration’s plan for identifying which family members might have been separated by assessing thousands of records using data analysis, statistical science and manual review.

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Labour chairman attacks Corbyn over ‘people’s vote’ on Brexit

give him the boot!

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Lavery in ‘broadside’ at party leader during meeting of MPs

Jeremy Corbyn was warned by Labour party chairman Ian Lavery that he risked going down in history as the leader who split his party if he backed another referendum on Brexit, in an extraordinary outburst during a meeting of the shadow cabinet last week, according to senior party sources.

The Observer has been told that Lavery, who has twice defied the whip and abstained on votes on another referendum, delivered the broadside at Corbyn during a shadow cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening, at which Corbyn updated his frontbench team on talks with the government aimed at ending the Brexit impasse.

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