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Bernie Sanders | Donald Trump May Think He Is a Dictator - but He Is Not 

Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Sanders writes: "President Trump's Justice Department just took an unprecedented action and denied a lawful request from the House of Representatives asking for unredacted documents relating to the Mueller report."
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Donald Trump Jr. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty)

Trump Jr Subpoenaed by Senate Panel to Testify Again on Campaign's Russia Contacts
Ashley Parker, Karoun Demirjian and Shane Harris, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, seeking additional closed-door testimony as part of lawmakers' ongoing probe of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, according to people familiar with the summons."
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Trump supporters. (photo: NBC)

Trump Laughs at Supporter's Proposal to Shoot Immigrants
Justin Baragona, The Daily Beast
Baragona writes: "President Trump chuckled and joked when a supporter at his Florida rally suggested shooting immigrants as a way to decrease migrant crossings at the southern border on Wednesday night."
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)

The White House Is Revoking Press Passes En Masse
Sophie Weiner, Splinter
Weiner writes: "After almost eliminating press conferences, the Trump administration's campaign against journalists covering the White House has reached a new peak."
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Lija Greenseid stands at a pharmacy in Fort Frances, Ont., holding insulin for her 13-year-old daughter. Greenseid, of Minnesota, organized the Caravan to Canada on the first weekend in May to buy cheaper insulin. (photo: Lija Greenseid/CBC)

American 'Caravan' Crossed Canadian Border to Buy Affordable Diabetes Drugs
Elham Khatami, ThinkProgress
Khatami writes: "For Quinn Nystrom, and millions of other Americans living with Type 1 Diabetes, insulin affordability is a 'real crisis issue.'"
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Mohamed Abu Al-Jidian's father was killed when Israel bombed an apartment complex in Gaza. (photo: Tamer al-Wakeel/Bel Trew)

Gaza Mourns the Dozens Dead in Latest Israeli Attack: 'I Lost Everything in the Blink of an Eye'
Bel Trew, The Independent
Trew writes: "The only reason Mohamed, 26, was not dug out of the rubble of his home like the rest of his family, was because he stopped for a quick chat."
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Vector, a female humpback whale, is towed ashore on Sandy Neck Beach. The whale weighs 40 tons and is 13.6 meters. She has been known to Cape Cod waters since 1984. (photo: Faith Ninivaggi/Boston Herald)

10th Dead Humpback Whale This Year Washes Ashore on Cape Cod
Marie Szaniszlo, The Boston Herald
Szaniszlo writes: "The 10th dead humpback whale in the region so far this year washed ashore in East Sandwich between Sunday night and Monday morning, the latest in a disturbing trend in recent years, advocates said."
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Andy Borowitz | White House Staff Nervously Checking Whether Trump Retweeted Anything by Bombing Suspect 

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Moments after law enforcement apprehended the pipe-bombing suspect, Cesar Sayoc, in Florida, White House staffers scrambled to make sure that Donald J. Trump had never retweeted anything from Sayoc's demented Twitter feed."
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First responders surround the Tree of Life Synagogue where a shooter opened fire Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. (photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP)

ALSO SEE: Trump Blames Synagogue in Pittsburgh Shooting for Not Having Armed Guard

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter in Custody, Identified as Far-Right White Supremacist
Amir Tibon, Noa Landau, Judy Maltz and Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz
Excerpt: "Eight people were killed after a man opened fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday. The perpetrator entered the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue and yelled 'All Jews must die,' according to KDKA, a local radio station."
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Militia Groups Plan to Head to the US-Mexico Border to Stop the Migrant Caravan
Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress
Barnes writes: "Militia groups and far-right activists are gearing up to head to the Mexican border to try to stop a migrant caravan from entering the United States, as conservatives and the far-right escalate their warnings about the supposed dangers it poses."
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Voter Suppression Is Already an Issue in the Midterm Elections
Nidhi Prakash, BuzzFeed
Prakash writes: "Less than two weeks out from the midterm elections, high-profile cases of alleged voter suppression have emerged in at least three different states, raising concerns among voting rights advocates about obstacles for people of color in particular to get to the polls."
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Supporters hold up signs for the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who Turkish police said was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. (photo: Ozan Kose/Getty)

Saudi Ties to US Universities Under Question Amid Ongoing Crisis Over Khashoggi Murder
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urges Saudi Arabia to disclose who ordered the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, we end today's show looking at how U.S. universities are facing new scrutiny over their close ties to Saudi Arabia in the wake of Khashoggi's murder."
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Protesters in Gaza City. (photo: Adel Hana/AP)

Israel Batters Gaza Hamas Outposts Overnight
teleSUR
Excerpt: "On Saturday, the Israeli military perpetrated a massive bombing attack in the Gaza, reportedly firing on 80 Hamas targets, in response to 30 rockets fired from the region to an area near the city of Sderot Friday."
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A humpback whale. (photo: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty)

Humpback Whales Are Falling Silent and the Reason Will Make You Cry
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Male humpback whales are known for their evocative songs, but their classic melodies are being shortened or silenced in reaction to shipping noise, Japanese researchers found."
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Rescuers respond to 2 entangled whales

By Mary Ann Bragg 
Posted Aug 1, 2018

PROVINCETOWN — Rescuers had their hands full Monday in two attempts to free entangled whales in U.S. and Canadian waters.

“It was an incredibly difficult entanglement,” said Center for Coastal Studies marine animal disentanglement director Scott Landry of a late-afternoon attempt to free a large, well-known female humpback in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary after she appeared to bite down on an anchor line and then panicked.

Landry and other rescuers were in the area doing research and able to go to the whale, named Cardhu, and partially free her. But he and the other rescuers remain concerned that she still needs help, he said. While Cardhu likely has left Stellwagen Bank temporarily as a response to the experience, Landry said the center is asking everyone on the water to keep an eye out for her, as she is likely to return in time.

Landry said this entanglement was rare in that others on the water on Monday witnessed it.

“Cardhu remains entangled,” Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises wrote Monday evening on Facebook. “She remains with a twisted line in her mouth. We (the whale watching community) will all keep a lookout for her and hope she remains in our area, can be sighted, and can be freed completely from this tangle of line.”

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As of 2016, humpback whales were no longer listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, but that same year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an unusual mortality event for the species from Maine to Florida, and humpback deaths continue to remain elevated. There are an estimated 10,400 to 10,752 humpback whales in the northern Atlantic Ocean, including U.S. waters, according to NOAA.

“Thank you again for your patience,” wrote the whale watch company, which docks in Barnstable Harbor. “It was overwhelming and heartbreaking to witness, but we are glad we saw it and could get her some immediate response. We will look for her, I promise.”

First seen off Cape Cod Bay in 1981, Cardhu was pregnant then with the first of eight known calves. “She seems to be fond of the Stellwagen Bank feeding grounds and can be seen here at any time during the season,” according to online sanctuary records.

Even farther north on Monday, an entangled North Atlantic right whale was reported 22 miles east of Grand Manan, New Brunswick, near the Bay of Fundy. At that time, vessel problems and poor weather stopped a rescue response, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada. On Tuesday, a thorough search of the area by several agencies came up empty, and the search was called off due to more bad weather. With other agencies, the Canadian government will monitor the waters by plane and boat, weather permitting, in an attempt to find the entangled right whale and assess its condition, the agency wrote in an email.

The critically endangered right whales migrate each year along the Atlantic coast, including stops in Cape Cod Bay, as they follow the movement and density of food sources such as zooplankton, according to scientists.

On July 13, another entangled right whale was spotted swimming in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Miscou, New Brunswick, with rope around its body and trailing behind it, but surveyors lost sight of the animal by the next day.

With new measures in place this year to limit ship strikes and fishing rope entanglements, the Canadian agency has reported no right whale deaths. After the death of 12 right whales last year in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and another five in waters near Cape Cod, scientists have spoken of a possibly dire decline in the population, which didn’t produce a single documented calf in the most recent birthing season.

As of Saturday, 25 commercial fishing areas in Canadian waters were fully or partially closed on a temporary basis because of sightings of right whales.

http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20180801/rescuers-respond-to-2-entangled-whales