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“It’s impossible to clean up” | 600 gallon oil spill in the Galapagos kills wildlife and disrupts food chains
https://www.newsweek.com/its-impossible-clean-it-all-600-gallon-oil-spill-galapagos-kills-wildlife-disrupts-food-1478889

Rising popularity of Chinese medicine threatens global wildlife populations, say conservation groups
https://news.yahoo.com/rising-popularity-chinese-medicine-threatens-173018089.html

The Trump administration has stopped looking into most bird deaths and has discouraged local governments and companies from taking precautionary steps to safeguard the creatures, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/475838-trump-administration-stops-probing-most-bird-deaths-report

Notre Dame Cathedral, ravaged by fire in April, will not host Christmas services for first time since French Revolution
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/12/22/notre-dame-fire-no-christmas-mass-first-time-200-years/2726591001/

Why is Rudy Giuliani billing himself as the former Attorney General of the United States? He has never held that position and he is not currently a government official, as he falsely claims.
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1209587163643490305

Giuliani Touts Personal Facebook Page That Falsely Identifies Him as ‘Former Attorney General of the United States’. It's a crime to impersonate a federal official
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/giuliani-touts-personal-facebook-page-that-falsely-identifies-him-as-former-attorney-general-of-the-united-states/

Lev Parnas’s attorney Edward MacMahon wants to withdraw, saying his client’s “apparent ability to fund his defense has diminished.” Parnas will keep his other attorney Joseph Bondy.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1209598253030952962

Journalist leaves Christian Post amid its plans to attack Christianity Today for attacking Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/12/23/christianity-today-called-trumps-impeachment-why-it-could-cost-magazine/

Army officer returns home to San Diego to say goodbye to mother before her deportation
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-23/army-officer-returns-home-deportation

YEPL “I’m all for overturning Citizens United. I’m all for getting money out of politics. I’m not for unilateral disarmament. Small dollar donations alone ain’t going to save our democracy in 2020,” @Bakari_Sellers on CNN
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1209590371568644097

91 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid $0 in taxes in 2018 under Trump's tax law
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tax-law-fortune-500-companies-pay-0-taxes-2018-213157006.html

The Pentagon Is Thinking About Closing A $110 Million Drone Base It Just Opened To Focus On Russia And China
https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-may-close-niger-drone-base-focus-on-russia-china-2019-12

Tories break promise on minimum wage hike just a week into their administration
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tories-break-promise-on-minimum-wage-hike-just-a-week-into-their-administration/19/12/

Russia's top secret $155m Su-57 stealth fighter crashes just days before it is due to enter service
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7824243/Russias-secret-120m-Su-57-stealth-fighter-crashes-just-days-enter-service.html

'Out of control': Volunteer firefighters demand income support, equipment | The president of the body representing thousands of volunteer firefighters is demanding immediate income support and masks for firefighters, warning the situation is now "out of control".
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/out-of-control-volunteer-firefighters-demand-income-support-equipment-20191223-p53mhb.html

Vietnam seizes two tonnes of ivory, pangolin scales
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-wildlife-trafficking/vietnam-seizes-two-tonnes-of-ivory-pangolin-scales-idUSKBN1YS08V?il=0