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PHILADELPHIA Not long after Hillary Clinton on Tuesday became the first woman in U.S. history to win a major partys presidential nomination, dozens of Bernie Sanders supporters walked off the convention floor in opposition to her candidacy, briefly overshadowing the moment.But today, as attention surrounding the walkout su
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RIO DE JANEIRO AP 鈥?After four years of rising destruction in Brazils Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6 percent during the first six months of President Luiz In谩cio Lula da Silvas term, according to government satellite data released Thursday.From January to June the rainforest had alerts for possible deforestation covering 2,650 square kilometers 1,023 square miles , down from 4,000 square kilometers 鈥?an area the size of Rhode Island 鈥?during the same period last year under聽former President Jair Bolsonaro. This year data includes
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