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Paulina Porizkova opens up about depression battle after husband Ric Ocasek’s death

Paulina Porizkova revealed she’s suffering with depression after the death of her late husband Ric Ocasek.

In 2019, the 55-year-old model’s husband, Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, died from hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in his in his New York apartment while recovering from surgery.

Porizkova and the rocker were in the midst of a divorce at the time of his passing, and she recently moved out of the home they owned together. In an emotional Instagram post on Monday, Porizkova detailed her current battle with depression while sharing a somber selfie of her hand raised to her head.

“Here’s the truth. While I thought the hard part was carrying the burden- it turns out setting the weight down is what really undid me,” she wrote.

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Paulina Porizkova opened up on social media this week about her battle with depression since the rocker’s death in 2019.
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“Starting last year- since my husband got diagnosed -I’ve been on a strange journey. Paddling a canoe in a stormy sea. My boys are in the back, scared but preoccupied. Sometimes the waves are smaller and easier to navigate, some days I lose my paddle and waves threaten to overwhelm. But I know my purpose is to get myself and my kids to safety, to the beach,” she continued.

The widow explained she tends to be “on the anxiety spectrum,” suffering from “jitters” and persistent crying spells.

“Depression is a complete lack of any sort of energy. While I will keep posting – I have zero energy to reply or interact – so please forgive me for not doing so for the next forseeable [sic] time,” she added.

She pointed out that depression is “as much physical as it’s emotional,” noting that she feels “incredible physical heaviness” amid “constant tears.”

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“This for me is day 3 in which I feel like my bones are made of lead pipes. Ludwig burping makes me angry and tearful, and I feel made out of lead,” she explains.

Paulina Porizkova and Ric Ocasek were in the middle of a divorce when he died in 2019 of cardiovascular disease. The two share two sons together.
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“DONT WORRY GUYS, I am not suicidal. I just feel really really bad,” she informed her followers.

On Tuesday, the supermodel opened up in greater detail about her journey with a post showing her reading a book titled “Keep Moving” by Maggie Smith. She thanked her followers for showing her an “outpouring of love and support” amid her pain.

“The most wonderful thing about posting raw feelings is when someone [sic] tells me they feel the same way, and I just helped THEM to feel less lonely. It makes ME feel less lonely, and at the same time, makes me feel like Ihelped [sic] someone.”

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According to Yahoo Entertainment, Porizkova revealed in May of 2018 that she and Ocasek had separated.

Things eventually got bitter between the two, as the rocker cut both Porizkova and two of his six children out of his will. The former couple share two sons, Jonathan, 26, and Oliver, 22.

Twitter users mock its CEO Jack Dorsey for ‘disgustingly unkempt’ beard at Senate hearing

The beard of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stole the show on Wednesday when honchos from technology giants including Facebook and Google testified before a Senate panel on tech companies’ treatment of speech and information on their platforms.

Dorsey participated remotely and viewers were shocked by his lengthy, messy beard.

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Dorsey’s beard was compared to Santa Claus, called “disgustingly unkempt” and even labeled simply “ridiculous.”

The beard of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stole the show on Wednesday when honchos from technology giants including Facebook and Google testified on tech companies’ treatment of speech and information on their platforms.

“If I wanted to be lied to by Jack Dorsey, I could just read his tweets. I don’t need to be further insulted watching him lie under oath with a disgustingly unkempt beard,” Turning Point USA staffer Richard Armande Mills responded.

Mediaite’s Colby Hall noted, “The homeless problem in the Bay Area is out of control.”

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Dorsey’s beard even ended up with its own Twitter account.

Many others took to Twitter with thoughts on the CEO’s appearance:

Teen beats coronavirus after allegedly facing 1% chance of survival

A 16-year-old Arkansas teen who at one point was reportedly given just a 1% chance of survival has recovered from the coronavirus after a two-week ICU stay.

“There was a 99% chance she was not going to survive, which as a parent, that’s hard to listen to,” Donald Tucker, Camden Tucker’s father, told THV11.com.

Camden’s ordeal began on Sept. 19 when she had multiple seizures and went into cardiac arrest while on a fishing trip with her family, THV11.com reported.

She was transported to a nearby hospital where she was diagnosed with coronavirus, and then transferred to Arkansas Children’s Hospital, according to the report.

“Once at ACH, we found out the COVID caused myocarditis which is an inflammation in her heart,” Donald Tucker wrote in an Oct. 14 Facebook post. “The cardiac arrest caused her to have seizures.”

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is actively investigating short and long-term health effects of COVID-19 infection, including the association between the virus and heart conditions.

“Heart conditions associated with COVID-19 include inflammation and damage to the heart muscle itself, known as myocarditis or inflammation of the covering of the heart, known as pericarditis,” the CDC previously stated. “These conditions can occur by themselves or in combination. Heart damage may be an important part of severe disease and death from COVID-19, especially in older people with underlying illness.”

However, the health agency has acknowledged that risk of heart damage may extend to young adults with COVID-19, including athletes.

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“Severe heart damage has occurred in young, healthy people, but is rare,” the CDC stated. “There may be more cases of mild effects of COVID-19 on the heart that can be diagnosed with special imaging tests, including in younger people with mild or minimal symptoms; however, the long-term significance of these mild effects on the heart are unknown.”

Her father told the news outlet that Camden is an active dancer with no underlying health conditions, but that didn’t prevent her from spending 14 days in the hospital’s ICU. She was reportedly in a coma for just shy of a week.

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Slowly, she started making a recovery that doctors were calling miraculous, according to the family.

“I just didn’t even know I was doing anything that was worth saying I was a miracle,” she told the news outlet, adding that she has no recollection of the two weeks she spent in the hospital.

Donald Tucker said he shared his daughter’s plight on Facebook because he wants people to understand the risk of coronavirus.

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“She still has a ways to go in regards to stamina, her voice healing and memory,” Tucker wrote. “Our family can never thank you all enough for the prayers and overwhelming show of support you each have shown my sweet girl and our family.”

According to the state’s health department, Arkansas currently has 7,796 active cases of the novel coronavirus. Of those cases, 676 are hospitalized, with 94 on ventilators.

Joe Biden could be compromised by Chinese Communist Party: Rep. Crenshaw

Joe Biden needs to answer whether or not he’s compromised by China before the Nov. 3 election, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said Wednesday.

“There’s a possibility that Joe Biden is actually compromised by the Chinese Communist Party,” Crenshaw told “Fox & Friends.”

“Here’s why,” he said. “We know for a fact, this is undisputed, that Hunter Biden has gone around the world getting sweetheart deals because of his family’s name.”

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The retired Navy SEAL says the question is now whether Joe Biden has benefited from Hunter Biden’s business dealings, as evidenced in the purported emails and as alleged by his ex-business partner show Biden possibly did get a 10% stake in a deal where he was labeled the “big guy.”

“This raises some pretty serious questions that the Bidens have to answer. Is he the big guy? Are the emails real? Did he meet with Tony Bobulinski? These should be very simple questions and when asked, they say, ‘oh, those questions have been answered.’ No they haven’t,” Crenshaw said. “The American people deserve to know this. We’re about to have an election and potentially elect a president that’s compromised by the Chinese Communist Party because this energy company has direct ties to the Communist Party.”

‘PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY’: TONY BOBULINSKI CLAIMS BIDEN FAMILY SHRUGGED OFF CONCERNS ABOUT RISK TO 2020 BID

The Biden campaign has remained mum after Hunter Biden’s former business associate went public to say he met twice in the past with the former vice president — despite past statements from Biden on the campaign trail that he had no involvement with or discussions about his family’s overseas business ventures.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. told CNN earlier this month, “We know that this whole smear comes from the Kremlin. That’s been clear for well over a year now that they’ve been pushing this false narrative about the vice president and his son.”

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Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden’s ex-associate, responded on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in an exclusive interview Tuesday.

“I held a top-secret clearance from the NSA and the DOE. I served this country for four years in one of the most elite environments in the world, and to have a congressman out there speaking about Russian disinformation or Joe Biden at a public debate referencing Russian disinformation, when he knows he sat face to face with me, to say that and associate that with my name is absolutely disgusting to me,” Bobulinski said.

“This is pretty typical of Adam Schiff. He uses his position as head of the Intel Committee to spread lies. He’s been doing it for a long time. We’re all used to it. I apologize to Tony Bobulinski for having to deal with it now,” Crenshaw told the morning show hosts.

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“This is what Democrats do … Anytime there’s a narrative they don’t like, facts they don’t like, they just claim that it’s been debunked,” he said. “They claim that it’s Russian disinformation. Nothing to see here. No questions to answer.”

Wedding guests warned of coronavirus exposure following New York event: officials

Attendees of a recent wedding in New York may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to local health officials.

Those who attended an Oct. 17 wedding in Claredon, N.Y., located about an hour from Buffalo, may have been exposed. The wedding’s original guest list has been notified, and those attendees have since been placed under mandatory quarantine, according to a local news outlet. However, officials warned that some attendees who were not on the original guest list may have also been exposed but have not been contacted.

Paul Petit, the public health director for Genesee and Orleans County, has encouraged wedding goers to monitor themselves for symptoms of the novel virus through this weekend. Anyone who develops signs of COVID-19 should get tested and self-isolate until results are received.

Weddings have been sources of COVID-19 cases, with such an event in Maine being an infamous example of the possible dangers of large, indoor gatherings in the age of coronavirus.

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An August wedding reception at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket has been linked to at least seven COVID-19-related deaths and more than 170 cases of the virus, officials said in September. More than 65 people attended the wedding, violating state virus guidelines that cap indoor gatherings to 50 people or less.

Russian hackers are going after everything, from elections to industrial systems

Russia is a relentless, increasingly malicious hacker of everything American, recent threats show.

Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a Russian government research institution linked to the Triton malware, which the Treasury called “the most dangerous threat activity publicly known.”

The hackers, by weaponizing Triton, aim to disable industrial safety systems. “Such systems provide for the safe emergency shutdown of industrial processes at critical infrastructure facilities in order to protect human life,” the Treasury said in the statement.

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“This is … the first time an [Industrial Control Systems] cyberattack has ever been sanctioned,” Rob Lee, CEO and co-founder of industrial cybersecurity platform provider Dragos, told Fox News.

“This is entirely appropriate as this cyberattack was the first ever targeted explicitly towards human life. We are fortunate no one died and I’m glad to see governments take a strong stance condemning such attacks,” Lee added.

Prior to the Treasury issuing the statement, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an advisory on a Russian state-sponsored threat, saying that the entity “has conducted a campaign against a wide variety of U.S. targets.”

The FBI and CISA (part of the Department of Homeland Security) said they observed the Russian state-sponsored actor targeting U.S. state, local, territorial and tribal (SLTT) government networks, as well as aviation networks.

CISA said the “threat actor” successfully compromised network infrastructure and “exfiltrated,” aka stole, data from at least two victim servers.

These network vulnerabilities targeted “are a boon for … state-sponsored threat actors,” Satnam Narang, staff research engineer at Tenable, told Fox News.

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Russia has also been ramping up malicious cyber operations targeting the U.S. presidential election.

John Ratcliffe, the director of National Intelligence, issued a statement last week that Russia – along with Iran – had obtained voter registration information.

“This data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, sow chaos, and undermine your confidence in American democracy,” Ratcliffe said.

The meddling is not expected to stop any time soon, experts say. “We can be sure that Russia will continue these nefarious tactics post-election, as expected reporting delays will provide the perfect opportunity for these operatives to spread false narratives on, for example, the legitimacy of the results in order to sow confusion and possible unrest among Americans,” Theresa Payton, former White House chief information officer who served under President George W. Bush from 2006-2008 and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, told Fox News.

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“The Russian state is among the most successful operators of disinformation campaigns,” according to a report this week from cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows. “Russia’s attempts at broader political influence overseas have been facilitated by its use of state-owned traditional media, bots, ‘hack and leak’ operations, and cooperation between organized crime groups and Russian government agencies,” the report said.

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CNN contributors say Tony Bobulinski interview is newsworthy as network continues to ignore

CNN has shocked critics by ignoring Tucker Carlson’s interview with Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden who said the Biden family shrugged off concerns that Joe Biden’s alleged ties to his son’s business deals could put a future presidential campaign at risk.

“This seems pretty newsworthy. Maybe they could, at the very least, answer some questions about it and that recording he has,” Mary Katharine Ham, who mentions CNN in her Twitter bio, tweeted to accompany a clip of Bobulinski articulating Joe Biden’s alleged role in the deal.

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Ham then compared coverage of Bobulinski to FBI Director James Comey’s memos documenting private discussions with President Trump that were eventually leaked to the press, noting that claims Bobulinski’s comments could not be verified shouldn’t be an excuse to dismiss them altogether.

“Every now and then, I recall the Comey Memos dictated national news coverage for months on end even though not one journalist saw them,” Ham added. “Comey had his buddy call the NYT & read them like beat poetry & everyone snapped along. Whither our verification standards then?”

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Ham hasn’t been visible on CNN lately but notes that she works for CNN in her Twitter bio and was described by The Atlantic as a CNN contributor back in April. She also refers to herself as a CNN commentator on LinkedIn.

CNN did not immediately respond when asked about Ham’s status with the network.

Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, sat down with Carlson for a one-hour interview that aired on Tuesday night. Bobulinski said he raised concerns in 2017 to the former vice president’s brother Jim Biden, about Joe Biden’s alleged ties to a possible joint venture with a Chinese energy firm.

While the mainstream media has scrutinized President Trump and his family members at every turn, there has been a near blackout of coverage of Bobulinski’s shocking claims.

Bobulinski’s comments to Carlson were completely ignored by CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and Washington Post as of 8 a.m. EST on Wednesday, exactly 12 hours after the start of the damning interview.

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But while his own network suppresses the information, CNN’s Scott Jennings condemned the talking point that the entire narrative is “Russian disinformation,” which has been a popular stance among the Biden camp.

“What’s amazing: at the *same time* Biden & his operatives are screaming publicly this is Russian disinformation, their own family’s reps are calling this guy behind the scenes to try to kill it. Biden & his people look like pretty big liars rn on the Russia bit,” Jennings tweeted.

Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson told Fox News that it’s clear the liberal media “thinks this could hurt their preferred candidate” so the story is simply being avoided.

“The easiest way to determine whether ignoring or minimizing the Bobulinski interview and documents reflects media bias is to imagine if something similar happened to Donald Trump. If Bobulinski were blowing the whistle on Trump influence peddling, all the networks and newspapers would be carrying the story nonstop through Election Day,” Jacobson said.

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As for CNN, the network seems to have other priorities on the morning after Bobulinski spoke out.

CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza complained that the media hasn’t spent enough time covering Trump’s taxes.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper tweeted that Trump rallygoers were forced to wait in freezing temperatures for a bus to take them to their cars, promoting mockery from Real Clear Politics president Tom Bevan.

“The state of our media: Buses > Bobulinski,” Bevan wrote.

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Fox News’ Adam Shaw, Joseph A. Wulfsohn and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Arkansas reports first flu death of the season

As several areas of the country struggle to contain surging cases of the novel coronavirus, another infectious disease poses a threat to many: the seasonal flu, which has already killed at least one person in Arkansas.

The Arkansas Department of Health in its most recent weekly influenza report announced the first flu death in the state of the 2020-21 season in a resident who was 65 or older, per the report, which is current as of Oct. 24. No other details were provided.

Medical experts have urged Americans to remain diligent this year in protecting themselves against the flu amid the ongoing coronavirus epidemic in the country.
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Additionally, since the end of September, some 118 people have tested positive for the flu in the state. At least 11 of the positives were included in the health department’s most recent report.

Medical experts have urged Americans to remain diligent this year in protecting themselves against the flu amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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“It’s particularly important to get vaccinated [against the flu] this year because of the ongoing COVID pandemic: We want people to stay as healthy as possible,” Michelle Lin, an emergency room doctor and professor of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, previously told Fox News. “Since people are trying to stay home and out of the doctor’s office [and/or] ER, there has been a push to make the vaccine available widely earlier.”

Interestingly, however, the results of a survey commissioned by the National Foundation for Infectious Disease (NFID) and conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago found that while most participants agreed the vaccine is the best protection against flu, a smaller percentage actually plan to be inoculated.

In a survey of 1,000 adults ages 18 or older from across the country, 68% agreed that receiving the flu vaccine is the “best preventive measure against flu-related deaths and hospitalizations,” up from 61% the year before.

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But by comparison, only 59% of respondents said they actually plan to be vaccinated against the flu, with 15% saying they are unsure. (For context, 52% of respondents in 2019 said they planned to receive the flu vaccine that year.)

“The flu shot is incredibly important because it reduces your risk of contracting the flu,“ added Lin, noting the vaccine “also reduces your risk for complications and passing it to other people, especially pregnant women, young children and the elderly,” who are more susceptible to the virus.

Cluster of coronavirus cases among college’s soccer teams highlights mitigation challenges: CDC

A cluster of coronavirus cases among members of a college’s men’s and women’s soccer teams who had been required to test negative for the illness before reporting to preseason this summer demonstrates the need for periodic repeat testing and improvement in messaging about social distancing and mask use, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.

The college, which was not identified by name but is located in Chicago, required athletes to have two negative real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction coronavirus tests before participating in any preseason activities. Voluntary training sessions for both the men’s and women’s teams began in July, and in August, a member of the men’s team informed a coach he was experiencing COVID-19-related symptoms.

“The student reported attending several social gatherings with teammates in the preceding 14 days, including a birthday party and an unsanctioned soccer match between the men’s and women’s teams,” according to the report

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Over the next two days, five additional soccer players reported symptoms, and both teams were instructed to isolate or quarantine. Officials tested symptomatic players and anyone who had attended either the match or the birthday party. Nine tests out of 10 tests came back positive, and three days later four more players tested positive.

“After the university instructed both teams to test all members including asymptomatic persons, four additional players with SARS-CoV-2 infection were identified, for a total of 17,” according to the CDC report.

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Among those who tested positive, 11 reported experiencing symptoms, but none required hospitalization. All 17 players also said that they attended at least one of the 18 gatherings reported during the investigation period, which included visits to other dorms, an outdoor lake gathering, the birthday party and the coed soccer match.

The CDC said the birthday party, a visit to a dorm and the coed soccer match likely contributed to transmission “because they were attended by members of both teams and persons not on the teams.” Seven of the men’s team’s players who tested positive said they had attended the birthday party but did not wear masks or social distance for the majority of the time.

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“This outbreak highlights challenges to implementation of prevention strategies associated with persuading students at colleges and universities to adopts and adhere to recommended mitigation measures outside campus,” the CDC report said. “University protocols mandated mask use during training sessions, and coach staff members reported universal compliance. However, multiple students reported inconsistent mask use and social distancing at social gatherings, which quickly negated the benefits of pertaining testing, on-campus mask use, and social distancing prevention measures.”

Nonprofit to sue Trump administration over historic hunting, fishing expansion across 2.3M acres

Fish with ‘two mouths’ photo goes viral

Debbie Geddes caught a unique fish in upstate New York when she was out on Lake Champlain with her husband. She snapped a photo of the double mouthed fish and now thousands are sharing it on social media.

Things are getting a little ornery in the great outdoors.

A nonprofit is targeting the Trump administration in a new lawsuit protesting the historic expansion of hunting and fishing across 2.3 million public acres.

On Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a notice of intent to sue the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for expanding recreational hunting and fishing access across 147 wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, a move announced in August.

A nonprofit is targeting the Trump administration in a new lawsuit protesting the historic expansion of hunting and fishing opportunities across 2.3 million public acres.
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The CBD charges that that the agency violated the Endangered Species Act in failing to analyze the harmful impacts of the expansion on endangered wildlife like grizzly bears, ocelots and whooping cranes. The conservation group also blasted the newly permitted use of lead ammunition, which had been banned at the end of the Obama administration but was restored by former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.

“For example, endangered whooping cranes rely on numerous refuges in the Midwest, like the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin, where the Fish and Wildlife Service has authorized use of lead ammunition but failed to consider the risk of lead toxicity on the birds,” the CBD explained in a statement. “Endangered species like grizzly bears and ocelots can also be poisoned by scavenging on lead-contaminated carcasses.

“And grizzly bears are now at risk from being killed in mistaken-identity or self-defense shootings by hunters, such as those targeting black bears in grizzly bear territory in Swan River National Wildlife Refuge in Montana,” they alleged.

Over the summer, the Interior Department announced new recreational access at 138 national wildlife refuges and 9 national fish hatcheries, marking the “single largest” expansion of its kind.
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Collette Adkins, carnivore conservation director for the CBD, said that the nonprofit aims to take the FWS to court to ensure that America’s wildlife refuges remain a safe place for protected species.

“We’ve never before seen such a massive expansion of bad hunting practices on these public lands,” Adkins said. “There’s no sound reason for this, and the Fish and Wildlife Service has either ignored or downplayed the many risks that hunting poses to endangered wildlife.”

If the agency does not respond to the notice within 60 days, the CBD can sue under the Endangered Species Act, the group said.

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Notable updates include expanded recreation at Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, Bamforth National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming and Jordan River National Fish Hatchery in Michigan.

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