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Back in March The Brennan Center For Justice released a report on what would be necessary for the Democrats to win back the House. They said in order to win back the House Democrats would have to out vote Republicans by a national average of 11 points. They concluded that because of Republican gerrymandering of congressional districts across the country, (which became possible by the crushing defeat Democrats took up and down the ballot in 2010), the number of “unwinnable seats” facing Democrats and their "blue wave” was just too great. The G- word “gerrymandering” is never heard in the...

Here, for the first time (to our knowledge), we are able to demonstrate unambiguously that the impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–Pg, ∼66 Mya) was followed by a so-called “impact winter.” This impact winter was the result of the injection of large amounts of dust and aerosols into the stratosphere and significantly reduced incoming solar radiation for decades. Therefore, this phase will have been a key contributory element in the extinctions of many biological clades, including the dinosaurs. The K–Pg boundary impact presents a unique event in Earth history because it caused global change at an unparalleled rate. This detailed...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents in Houston are on the hunt for Al Qaeda figures with ties to Chad and the Sudan who, the agency says, may be targeting Texas and Los Angeles Oil Plants.Agents are asking Muslim and Middle Eastern Men in Houston about specific questions about phone calls or trips to the countries, our sources tell Chitra Ragavan.Their questions are related to a threat to blow up petrochemical plants in the Houston or Los Angeles area over the Fourth of July Holiday.The questions about Sudan and Chad are striking, sources say, because the usual target countries are Saudia...