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WASHINGTON 鈥?A Republican senator in a tough re-election race is attacking his top Democratic rival for supporting more Syrian refugee stanley cup s in the U.S., marking the issue first appearance in Senate campaign advertising.In the ad released Tuesday, GOP Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois harshly criticizes Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth for voicing support for allowing as many as 200,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.ISIS disguised as Syrian refugees attack Paris. Next target The U.S., the ad says.Mark Kirk opposes more Syrian refugees until it can be done safely. For your family safety: Who do you trust The Kirk campaign said about $180,000 is being spent to air the ad on TV, a relatively tiny sum. But his focus on the issue highlights the Republican view that it can be a vulnerability for Democrats, especially those like Duckworth who opposed recent GOP legislation cracking down on the refugee program.Video by Mark KirkThe ad claims are exa stanley cup ggerated. The Paris perpetrators were mostly French and Belgian nationals, although there was a Syrian passport found near one of their bodies. Authorities have suggested the passport was an Islamic State plant to sow fear of refugees.Duckworth, a military veteran, has been outspoken about the need to show compassion to re stanley cup fugees, many of whom are women and young children themselves victimized by the Islamic State.Her spokesman, Matt McGrath, said Kirk a Jibg Justice Department working with tribes on missing persons
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucat谩n Peninsula in Mexico.The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt 鈥?as the biomass stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is called 鈥?contains scattered patches of seaweed on the open sea, rather than one continuous blob stanley cup of sargassum.聽It not a new occurrence, but satellite images captured in February showed an earlier start than usual for such a large accumulation in the open ocean.WATCH: A 5,000-mile-long mass of seaweed is coming to sho stanley cup re. Heres what will happenOnce it washes ashore, sargassum is a nuisance 鈥?a thick, brown algae that carpets beaches, releasing a pungent smell as it decays and ensnares humans and animals wh stanley cup o step into it. For hotels and resorts, clearing the stuff off beaches can amount to a round-the-clock operation.Here a look at this year sargassum seaweed bloom:What is sargassum A leafy brown seaweed festooned with what look like berries. The seawood floats on the open ocean and 鈥?unlike other seaweeds 鈥?it reproduces on the water surface, helped by air-filled structures that give it buoyancy.Sargassum originates in a vast stretch of the Atlantic Ocean called the Sargasso Sea, which lies well off the southeast U.S. The Sargasso has no land boundaries; instead, four prevailing ocean currents form its boundaries.The matted brown seaweed stretche |
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