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Trump EPA Chief Says Carbon Dioxide Not "Primary Contributor To Global Warming"

In an interview surely to get the blood of America's hyper-sensitive environmentalists boiling, which we sincerely hope doesn't result in any adverse harm to global temperatures, Trump's new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, appeared on CNBC to say that, among other things, the verdict is still out on man-made global warming.  Per CNBC:

US Sends Hundreds Of Marines 20 Miles From ISIS Capital

US Sends Hundreds Of Marines 20 Miles From ISIS Capital

While the Trump administration waits to decide if it will send 1,000 troops to Kuwait to fight ISIS, overnight the Washington Post reported that the US has sent several hundred Marines to Syria to support an allied local force aiming to capture the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa. Defence officials said they would establish an outpost from which they could fire artillery at IS positions some 32km (20 miles) away. US special forces are already on the ground, "advising" the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance according to the BBC.

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