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Illustration by Peter Arkle |
A "rogue slug" in a transformer brings the train system of the Japanese island of Kyushu to a halt. Two large pyrotechnic companies seeking to avoid 25 percent tariffs from the Trump administration are donating fireworks to the National Park Service’s Fourth of July celebration in Washington, DC. Vice President Mike Pence refuses to say whether climate change is a threat to the United States. Republican members of Oregon’s state senate flee the state, protected by right-wing militias, in order to forestall a vote on an ambitious cap-and-trade climate plan. The plan works and Oregon Democrats drop the bill. Wildlife authorities on the French island of Corsica identify what may be a new species of feline, known locally as chat-renard, or cat-fox. Narwhals can interbreed with belugas. |
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