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The Trump administration just made it legal to kill 400,000 wild animals a year in secret. No public notice. No comment period. Just done. The USDA finalized rules this April gutting decades of public participation requirements on 193 million acres of national forest. Logging, drilling, mining, road building — all can now be approved before the public ever hears about it. That includes Wildlife Services — the federal program that kills more than 400,000 native animals every year. Coyotes. Bears. Wolves. Beavers. Mountain lions. Killed on behalf of ranching interests, with your tax dollars, on your public land. Now completely out of public view. 150,000 public comments opposing these rules were thrown out. Attorneys general from 17 states objected. Tribal governments objected. The administration didn't care. "Information is power. Our voices are power. And the Trump administration is trying to strip both away so corporations can make a quick buck off our public lands." — Wendy Park, Center for Biological Diversity. Who gave the government permission to kill 400,000 wild animals a year and hide it from the rest of us? BREAKING Russia struck Pavlograd in Ukraine. The site exploded with a huge secondary detonation and a mushroom cloud. Seems like a big ammunition depot. SECRETARY RUBIO: "No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway." Odd, Trump thinks he can do it A Texas neighborhood was forced to go on lockdown after an 18-wheeler flipped over, releasing 24 *million* honeybees. The truck was carrying more than 400 hives with about 60,000+ bees in each hive when the truck driver lost control and flipped into a ditch.