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A U.S. reckoning over chemical pollution from military bases

Two men walked through livestock pens with .22-caliber rifles, killing Art Schaap's cows. One man would raise his rifle, its barrel inches from a cow's forehead. A shot would ring out, the cow would fall, and the men would move on to the next cow. There were 3,665 cows at the Highland Dairy in Clovis, New Mexico, a city in the flatlands near the Texas border. After six hours of gunfire, there were none.
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US sends aircraft carrier Nimitz to the Caribbean as pressure mounts on Cuba

In what appears to be a carefully calibrated show of force, the United States deployed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its accompanying strike group into Caribbean waters this week, a move that coincided with the unsealing of murder charges against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro on Wednesday and an intensifying pressure campaign by the Trump administration against Havana.