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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said Friday that President Trump's push to rip up his predecessor's legacy is surprisingly personal. "Never though have we seen a president so seemingly bent on reversing, negating, even obliterating his predecessor's signature accomplishments," Cooper said on his show "Anderson Cooper 360."  "If you want to what President Trump is against, you only have to look at what President Obama was for, and in all fairness none of this should be a surprise.

Luxury American electric automaker Tesla fired hundreds of employees this week after a company-wide annual review, according to multiple reports. San Jose Mercury News said that workers estimated between 400 and 700 employees had been let go.

Federal regulators on Friday approved two major natural gas pipelines for construction on the East Coast, a move heralded by business leaders and condemned by environmentalists. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted approvals for the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines, according to The Associated Press.

The destructive forces of three hurricanes, California’s wildfires and a handful of less-publicized weather events are putting 2017 on track to be one of the worst years for costly natural disasters in recent history.  According the National Centers for Environmental Information, a government office that keeps tabs on disasters that wrack up over $1 billion in damage, there have already been 15 such disasters this year. The only other year that had that many expensive disasters nine months into the year was 2011, which eventually set the record with 16. 2017 could break records in another way

“Welcome to Venice Jerko.” The greeting is painted in three-foot-high letters on a brick wall along Brooklyn’s legendarily polluted Gowanus Canal, right across from the canal’s first luxury high-rise and its new waterfront promenade. One recent sunny Sunday, a party of German seminary students and a pair of hotel publicists gathered for a canoe tour.

“Welcome to Venice Jerko.” The greeting is painted in three-foot-high letters on a brick wall along Brooklyn’s legendarily polluted Gowanus Canal, right across from the canal’s first luxury high-rise and its new waterfront promenade. One recent sunny Sunday, a party of German seminary students and a pair of hotel publicists gathered for a canoe tour.

After a six-year hiatus, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is back, and not a moment too soon. What better way to honor Larry David’s return to his old shenanigans than with a culinary tour of the most uncomfortable half-hour of television?

NICOLET, Quebec — I’m sitting in an outdoor pen with four puppies chewing my fingers, biting my hat and hair, peeing all over me in their excitement. At eight weeks old, they are two feet from nose to tail and must weigh seven or eight pounds. They growl and snap over possession of a much-chewed piece of deer skin. They lick my face like I’m a long-lost friend, or a newfound toy. They are just like dogs, but not quite. They are wolves. When they are full-grown at around 100 pounds, their jaws will be strong enough to crack moose bones.