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Fire ants have been seen floating in massive rafts around Houston, and scientists figured out how they pull it off https://t.co/Hemg2lq5Js pic.twitter.com/H6z04D4cgb
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Meanwhile, in Cuero, the river has brought my aunt all of the fire ants. Yes, those are all (of the) fire ants. pic.twitter.com/dEibWYxAdl
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To survive, the ants float around in globs until they once again reach dry ground. &quot;They actually love floods,&quot; Alex Wild, curator of entomology at University of Texas at Austin, told The Atlantic. &quot;It's how they get around.&quot;
And in case floating mats of fire ants weren't terrifying enough, the flooding makes the fire ants &quot;more aggressive and dangerous,&quot; The Atlantic reported. In fact, a 2011 study found that flooded fire ants &quot;have 165 percent as much venom inside them as normal fire ants,&quot; making their already awful bites particularly brutal.
These vicious flooded ants have an unexpected enemy though: dish soap. &quot;Dawn is a not a registered insecticide, but it will break up the surface tension and they will sink,&quot; advised Louisiana State University entomologist Linda Bui.
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Fire ants have been seen floating in massive rafts around Houston, and scientists figured out how they pull it off https://t.co/Hemg2lq5Js pic.twitter.com/H6z04D4cgb
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Meanwhile, in Cuero, the river has brought my aunt all of the fire ants. Yes, those are all (of the) fire ants. pic.twitter.com/dEibWYxAdl
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To survive, the ants float around in globs until they once again reach dry ground. &quot;They actually love floods,&quot; Alex Wild, curator of entomology at University of Texas at Austin, told The Atlantic. &quot;It's how they get around.&quot;
And in case floating mats of fire ants weren't terrifying enough, the flooding makes the fire ants &quot;more aggressive and dangerous,&quot; The Atlantic reported. In fact, a 2011 study found that flooded fire ants &quot;have 165 percent as much venom inside them as normal fire ants,&quot; making their already awful bites particularly brutal.
These vicious flooded ants have an unexpected enemy though: dish soap. &quot;Dawn is a not a registered insecticide, but it will break up the surface tension and they will sink,&quot; advised Louisiana State University entomologist Linda Bui.
Learn more about the fire ants rafting around Houston at The Atlantic. Becca  Stanek" />
        
    
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<p>To survive, the ants float around in globs until they once again reach dry ground. "They actually love floods," Alex Wild, curator of entomology at University of Texas at Austin, <a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/721287/3-harvey-photos-are-totally-fake" target="_blank">told <em>The Atlantic</em></a>. "It's how they get around."</p>
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							 <p>President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/us/politics/stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-trump.html" target="_blank">told <em>The New York Times</em></a> on Tuesday he paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who told multiple media outlets ahead of the 2016 presidential election that she had an affair with Trump.</p>
<p>In a statement, Cohen told the <em>Times</em> "neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction" with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. He also said he was not reimbursed for the payment, "either directly or indirectly," and the payment was "lawful." The payment was first reported in January by <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, and was made shortly before the presidential election; after that, Daniels stopped cooperating with the media outlets. Trump has denied the affair.</p>
<p>The <em>Times</em> reports Cohen would not answer questions about whether Trump knew he made the payment, what Cohen's motivation was to make the payment, and if he's paid any other women with similar stories. <a class="author" href=/authors/catherine-garcia><em>Catherine Garcia</em></a></p>
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							 <p>In Florida, the Democrats picked up a Republican-held state House seat in a Sarasota district that President Trump won in 2016 by five percentage points.</p>
<p>Democrat Margaret Good defeated Republican James Buchanan 52 to 45 percent during a special election Tuesday, held due to the resignation of state Rep. Alex Miller; she resigned halfway through her first term, after winning in 2016 by about 16 percentage points. Republicans still retain control of both of the state's legislative chambers.</p>
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							 <p>Last fall, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) made the surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election, but now — with Republicans worried about losing Senate seats to Democrats and Corker's relationship with President Trump somewhat mended — he's listening to people who are asking him to reconsider.</p>
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							 <p>A federal judge has blocked President Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying the administration's justification was not "legally adequate." Under DACA, which Barack Obama created via executive order, young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children can apply for legal protections. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/politics/daca-trump-congress/index.html">The Trump administration announced in September</a> that the program would expire on March 5. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued to protect DACA, eventually resulting in today's ruling.</p>
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<p class="p1">Ads lacking the proper FEC language include ones paid for by the Democratic National Committee and President Trump's 2020 campaign. Fines for "knowing and willful" violations of the law can be over $1,000.</p>
<p class="p3">The regulations are under particular scrutiny now, as it has become increasingly clear that Russian agents used Facebook to promote their agenda during the 2016 election. "Foreign contributions to campaigns for U.S. federal office are illegal," <em>ProPublica</em> notes. "Online, advertisers can target ads to relatively small groups of people. Once the marketing campaign is over, the ads disappear. This makes it difficult for the public to scrutinize them."</p>
<p class="p3">The FEC's rules have changed as the nature of online advertising has, too. In 2011, when ads on Facebook were limited to small thumbnails and short text, the FEC agreed that the disclaimer could appear after clicking <em>through</em> the ad. "The functionality and capabilities of today's Facebook Video and Image ads can accommodate the information without the same constrictions imposed by the character-limited ads that Facebook presented to the Commission in 2011," the commission wrote in December.</p>
<p class="p3">Read more about the law, and who is and is not complying with it, <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/i-approved-this-facebook-message-but-you-dont-know-that" target="_blank">at <em>ProPublica</em></a>. <a class="author" href=/authors/jeva-lange><em>Jeva Lange</em></a></p>
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							 <p>Israeli police have recommended that the country's attorney general indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in two corruption investigations, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-responds-to-calls-to-indict-him-i-will-continue-to-lead-1.5821010?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter"><i>Haaretz </i>reported Tuesday</a>. Netanyahu is accused of taking lavish gifts from friends in exchange for political favors, and trying to curry favorable coverage with an Israeli newspaper by forcing its rival to charge its readers. On Tuesday, the prime minister claimed in a live TV broadcast that the recommended charges "mean nothing in a democratic society" and vowed to stay in office. <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-indicted-media-reports-801069">Previously, Netanyahu predicted</a> that Israel's attorney general would not indict him, even if the police recommended doing so.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-to-have-personally-contacted-potential-foreign-buyers-for-israels-top-daily/">A transcript of a 2014 conversation</a> between the prime minister and the publisher of the newspaper <em>Yedioth Ahronoth, </em>obtained by Israel's Channel 2 news, quotes the latter as saying, "If we can come to an agreement … I will do all I can to make sure you stay here (in power) as long as you want. I'm looking you in the eye, and saying this as clearly as I can." Netanyahu has claimed that the publisher wanted to extort him and that he did not mean to accept such a deal, but the transcripts also show the prime minister asking the publisher "to reduce the level of hostility for me." In an unrelated but still telling incident, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/the-full-transcript-of-yair-netanyahu-s-wild-tel-aviv-night-1.5730342"><i>Haaretz </i>also published audio</a> of Netanyahu's son in 2015 drunkenly badgering a friend for money with which to pay prostitutes, saying in reference to a $20 billion gas deal, "Bro, my dad got your dad a sweet deal."</p>
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<p>"We're talking about out-of-control spending … leading to trillion-dollar deficits for 10 years," Bartiromo told Ryan on her show <em>Mornings</em><em> With Maria</em>, then asked: "Tell me how you're looking at that." Ryan defended the budget by noting its mandatory spending cuts and increased funding for the military. "The domestic spending we put in here is pretty much one-time spending," he said, adding that concessions like disaster aid and infrastructure spending were necessary "to get the military budget we wanted." Ryan also complained that the deficit wouldn't have been so big if the Senate had saved money (<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/25/553459455/-millions-may-lose-coverage-under-gop-health-bill-says-cbo-analysis" target="_blank">in theory</a>) by repealing the Affordable Care Act last summer.</p>
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