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The tide turned against inflation. Artificial intelligence went mainstream — for good or ill. Labor unions capitalized on their growing might to win more generous pay and benefits. Elon Musk renamed and rebranded the social media platform Twitter, removed guardrails against phony or obscene posts and ranted profanely when advertisers fled in droves. The American [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A policing think tank is pushing law enforcement agencies to change how they handle body camera footage after police shootings, saying officers should not be able to review video before making their first statements to investigators. The Police Executive Research Forum changed its position in a report released last week, nearly 10 [...]
Conditions were mostly nice this year for travelers flying ahead of and on Christmas, but some naughty disruptions again plagued those flying with Southwest Airlines. For millions of people traveling over the holiday, this year was much better than last. Christmas morning put a bow on a relatively smooth weekend. Only 157 flights within, into [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places: an ice skating rink near Disneyland, ski slopes around Lake Tahoe, farmland in the Central Valley, and — coming soon — kitchen faucets. California regulators last week approved new rules to let water agencies recycle [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — From June 25 to July 2, 2021, the Pacific Northwest experienced a record-breaking heat wave that sent the normally temperate region into Death Valley-like extremes that took a heavy toll on trees as well as people. Seattle and Portland, Ore., recorded their hottest-ever temperatures, reaching 108 and 116 degrees, respectively. In [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. — The program tasked with replacing the century-old Interstate 5 bridge that connects Portland, Ore., with southwest Washington, and serves as a vital transportation and commerce link, is set to receive $600 million in federal funds. Washington's Democratic U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, announced the [...]
MENANDS, N.Y. (AP) — Kaine is a big, buoyant dog looking for a home, but lately, he's spending a lot of time at the office. Animal shelters around the country are bursting at the seams amid the rising cost of living, so the gray and white 7-year-old has been staying in a worker's office at [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to conserve groves of old-growth trees on federal land by revising management plans for national forests and grasslands across the U.S. as they face threats from wildfires, insects and disease. Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack said the goal was to provide an "ecologically-driven" approach to older forests [...]
LOUIS (AP) — Flooding is driving millions of people to move out of their homes, limiting growth in some prospering communities and accelerating the decline of others, according to a new study that details how climate change and flooding are transforming where Americans live. In the first two decades of the 21st century, the threat [...]
New research from The Ohio State University found that mothers who drank alcohol while watching the Super Bowl were more likely to use aggressive discipline on their children during the occasion than those who were not drinking alcohol. For the purposes of the study, aggressive discipline included spanking or shaking the child or shouting or [...]