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Rush Holt, New Jersey U.S. Senate Candidate: ‘Millions Will Die’ Due To Climate Change

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

Climate change is becoming a heated issue in New Jersey’s special U.S. Senate election.

“On climate change, either we take real action, or millions will die,” Democratic Senate candidate Rush Holt candidly told voters in an Internet-only campaign ad released Monday.

The spot was promptly criticized by Republican Senate candidate Steve Lonegan, who called the ad “outrageous.” Holt and Lonegan are competing in an Aug. 13 primary for the seat left vacant by U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D), who died last month.

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Male African-American Unemployment Is Over 50 Percent Among Dropouts

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

More than half of male African-American high school dropouts are unemployed, according to a new online analysis of unemployment data by Remapping Debate, a left-of-center news site in New York.

“This is an emergency, this is a catastrophe [but Washington is] not rating it as a catastrophe,” said the site’s editor, Craig Gurian, told The Daily Caller.

The rate is “unbelievable, it is unbelievable,” said a Republican Senate staff member.

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Senate GOP Leaders Offer Up A Supersized Immigration Waffle

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By David Davenport, Contributor It’s a miracle!  After years of delay and foot-dragging, four Republican Senate leaders joined with four Democrat colleagues, crashing over a long weekend to produce a bipartisan immigration reform plan hours before President Obama was to deliver his.  Perhaps they’re related to a procrastinator friend who says, “I’m like a tube of toothpaste, I have to be squeezed a little.”
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