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What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’

Devastating research on child-parent separation is driving pediatricians, psychologists and other health experts to vehemently oppose the Trump administration's new border-crossing policy, which has separated nearly 2,000 immigrant children from their parents in recent weeks.

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James Hansen sits for a portrait in his home in New York on April 12, 2018. NASA?s top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and worsening. In a scientific study that came out a couple months later, he even forecast how warm it would get, depending on emissions of heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/Marshall Ritzel) NY951 NY951

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James Hansen wishes he wasn’t so right about global warming

Paula Chavez, a teacher at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas, May 4, 2018. Chavez said she voted for President Donald Trump but questioned his administration?s approach to prison staffing. ?By weakening prisons,? she said of the president, ?he is weakening the border.? (Julia Robinson/The New York Times) XNYT22 XNYT22

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Staff cuts at federal prisons have teachers, nurses guarding inmates

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‘Are you dead, sir?’: Video shows ER doctor mocking patient who said he couldn’t breathe WATCH

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‘Blob’ is blamed: Alaska’s Copper River sees low commercial-salmon harvest

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FILE- This June 25, 2010, file photo, boxes of Kellogg’s Froot Loops, Corn Pops, Apple Jacks, and Honey Smacks sit on the shelf of a Mt. Lebanon, Pa. The Kellogg Company is voluntarily recalling some of its Honey Smacks cereal after salmonella infected 73 people in 31 states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says most of the outbreaks were in California, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) NYBZ550 NYBZ550

More outbreaks of foodborne illnesses: Here’s what you need to know

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Protester Melissa Houtte holds her sign while Sen. Bill Nelson and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz address the media after being denied access to visit the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on June 19, 2018 in Homestead, Fla. According to recent reports, there are about 1,000 migrant children currently being held at the Homestead facility some of whom were separted from their families at the border and others who were unaccompanied minors. (Susan Stocker/Sun SEntinel/TNS) 1233895 1233895

Members of Congress barred from child migrant facility in Florida | Immigration WATCH

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This still image taken from video provided by Arab 24 shows Saudi-led forces gathering to retake the international airport of Yemen’s rebel-held port city of Hodeida from the Shiite Houthi rebels Saturday, June 16, 2018. With battles raging at the southern side of al-Hodeida International Airport, the military of Yemen’s exiled government said it had entirely seized the facility, and that engineers were working to clear mines from nearby areas just south of the city of some 600,000 people on the Red Sea. (Arab 24 via AP) CAIDK601 CAIDK601

Yemeni officials say fighting rages around Hodeida airport

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In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national vaccination catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles cases in England. More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease. (AP Photo/Owen Humphreys, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT – NO SALES – NO ARCHIVES LON801

‘Scary trends’: Kids in these U.S. hotspots at higher risk because parents opt out of vaccinations

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File – This undated file photo provided by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks shows a wolf-like animal that was shot on May 16, 2018, after it was spotted in a private pasture with livestock near Denton, Mont. The mystery is over: Montana wildlife officials confirm that an unusual-looking animal shot in central Montana was actually a wolf. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials initially weren’t certain what the creature was when a rancher shot it near Denton in May. They noted the legs, front claws and canine teeth were shorter and its ears bigger than normally seen on wolves. Officials said in a statement Monday, June 18, 2018, that an inspection of the animal at its wildlife health laboratory revealed it to be a relatively normal looking wolf. DNA tests confirmed that the animal was a gray wolf. (Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks via AP, File) FX101 FX101

Tests confirm mystery animal shot in Montana was a wolf