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World
Flooding Leaves Millions Without Water in Santiago, Chile
Rains and destructive mudslides over the weekend left at least three dead and 19 missing, and contaminated one of Santiago’s main sources of drinking water.It has been known to be bad practice to draw drinking water from developed areas for two hundred years in the U.S.
Reservoirs and aqueducts are expensive.
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U.S.
Trump Order Will Aim to Roll Back a Clean Water Rule
The executive order, expected Tuesday, will direct the Environmental Protection Agency to begin dismantling President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy.The Trump administration will have to change the underlying law to change the rule.
There is no right to make a profit.
The rule in question is necessary to public and environmental health.
3
U.S.
Trump’s Budget Is Aspirational. Reality in Congress Will Change It.
The president’s budget proposal is simply a starting point, and will look quite different once lawmakers have their say.Federal Spending has been cut to the legal limit.
Further cuts are not possible without difficult changes in the law.
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Opinion
Trump is Wrong to Skip the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Yes, the star-filled event is gross, but it’s also a tribute to the values that make America great.The Correspondents will be plotting against Trump.
They should.
5
Well
Colon and Rectal Cancers Rising in Young People
Scientists are reporting a sharp rise in colorectal cancers in adults as young as their 20s and 30s, though the reasons are unclear.About half the people born between 1890 and 1950 are dead.
The dead do not develop cancer.
OK.
The colorectal cancer rate is rising among the young.
The obesity rate is also rising.
The two are probably linked.
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U.S.
Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water
The order to start the yearslong unwinding of a 2015 rule would have little immediate effect. A similar move to ease greenhouse-gas limits is expected soon.Clean water is a good thing.
It also makes profiting by land ownership more difficult.
Ruined business models are a small price to pay for health.
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U.S.
What to Watch: Trump to Speak to a Joint Session of Congress
The address will begin shortly after 9 p.m., and Republicans will be looking for Mr. Trump to steady himself after a turbulent start to his presidency.Others can watch Trump try to excuse himself.
There are many who will try to tell me what he said and what he should have said.
I have little interest in what others think he meant.
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U.S.
Leaders of House Panel Are Sharply Split on Russia Inquiry
The top Republican on the Intelligence Committee said there was no evidence of ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. His Democratic counterpart disagreed.The investigation is needed.
It should be intense and wide ranging.
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The Upshot
If Obamacare Exits, Some May Need to Rethink Early Retirement
The concept is called “job lock,” the need to maintain employment, not for income, but for health insurance.Unemployment is the problem.
Health insurance would become another tool to enforce continued employment.
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World
Fox News and Swedish Guest Spar Over ‘National Security Adviser’ Title
The O’Reilly Factor guest, Nils Bildt, says the network gave him a false title for a segment on immigrant crime in his country. Fox denies this.Fox News cannot win this argument.
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