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Lawmakers, Biden, sports leagues press for new action on drone threats
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) – Lawmakers and U.S. sports leagues on Thursday backed a bid by the White House for expanded powers from Congress to detect and disable threatening drones. Congress in 2018 expanded authority of the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to disable or destroy threatening drones, which are formally known as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). But the Biden administration says Congress needs to renew existing authority and expand its powers as the number of registered drones jumps. Those 2018 drone authorities are set to expire in October. The Biden administration wants to extend drone detection and destruction powers to agencies like the CIA and State…
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Kenya: Climate change and water sports join growing list of sea turtle threats
Kenyan waters are host to the green, loggerhead, hawksbill, leatherback and olive ridley turtles. The most frequently encountered off Tiwi and Diani beaches south of Mombasa are the hawksbill turtle and green turtles. Sometimes people here are lucky enough to get a rare sighting of loggerheads or leatherbacks. But these sea turtles face a multitude of obstacles to their survival. They are prey for commercial companies, or locals who harvest them for their meat, shells and oil. Other times they’re caught accidentally by fishermen and their habitats are dwindling. Two months after the turtles lay their eggs, the babies hatch. A few days after hatching, conservationists from Tiwi Turtle Police perform an excavation…