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Child Thieves For Hire In China

Kids playing in Hunan Province, China
Kids playing in Hunan Province, China Zhao Zhongzhi/Xinhua

A county in China long known for its poets and philosophers is now in the news for something far more notorious — renting out children as thieves for hire. In Dao county in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, a child can be rented for 200 yuan ($29) a day, or 50,000 yuan ($7200) a […]

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Spotlight: Climate Change Under Donald Trump

New head of Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt
New head of Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt Gage Skidmore

Earlier today, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump picked Scott Pruitt, attorney general of Oklahoma, as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt, a New York Times investigation once revealed, has previously sent letters to government agencies that were actually drafted by energy-industry lobbyists. He has also legally challenged the Obama administration’s regulation of fossil fuels. […]

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