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Maher: I Joked About It, But Trump Had a Point About CA’s Vegetation Management

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while he made jokes about President-Elect Donald Trump saying California doesn’t manage vegetation back during his first term, “Just because Trump says it doesn’t mean it’s automatically wrong.”
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Maher on Fires: Climate’s Mostly Out of Our Hands, We Can Control High Taxes for Nothing, Stupid DEI, Bass Going Nero 

During his closing monologue on Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," host Bill Maher stated that while climate change makes wildfires worse, "that's largely out of our control. What are we going to do? Pass a ballot measure to make sure [the] Chinese stop burning coal?" But it's "not wrong to associate some of the unforced errors our government made with the things normies see as hallmarks of uber-progressive politics, questionable budget priorities, high taxes that get you nothing, making everything about identity politics, virtue-signaling overseas instead of tending to the nuts and bolts at home."
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W.H.O. Demands World Give It $1.5 Billion to Handle Emergencies

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) launched a campaign on Thursday urging the world to invest $1.5 billion into its emergency fund – a separate pool of money from its regular operations funding intended to address health crises around the world.
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A South African horror story: Illegal mining standoff draws to an end – NPR

A South African horror story: Illegal mining standoff draws to an end  NPRHundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months—Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission  The Wall Street JournalRescuers pull survivors and bodies from abandoned South Africa gold mine  CBS NewsSouth Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege  ReutersWhy hundreds of miners are still trapped and starving in an abandoned South Africa mine  ABC News

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Rubio warns Panama of U.S. retaliation if China’s canal influence remains – Axios

Rubio warns Panama of U.S. retaliation if China's canal influence remains  AxiosSecretary of State Marco Rubio warns Panama's president about Chinese influence over the Panama Canal  NBC NewsThree things to know about Rubio’s first international trip  NPRRubio Heads to Panama, With Canal in His Sights  The New York TimesUS official pressures Panama over Chinese businesses near the canal  Reuters Canada

EXCLUSIVE: Texas National Guard Granted Authority to Make Immigration Arrests

A memorandum of understanding between Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the State of Texas, reviewed by Breitbart Texas will immediately grant Texas National Guard soldiers the authority to make immigration arrests within the Lone Star state. Pete R Flores, CBP Acting Commissioner, authored the memorandum of understanding (MOU).
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Tens of thousands protest in Berlin against proposed German immigration crackdown – Reuters UK

Tens of thousands protest in Berlin against proposed German immigration crackdown  Reuters UKGermany: 160,000 people protest against far-right party in Berlin  BBC.comGermany: Protesters decry CDU/CSU over AfD collaboration  DW (English)German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses  The New York TimesThousands demonstrate in Germany against working with the far right  Yahoo! Voices