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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 [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — The federal government last week said it plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next decade to help recover depleted populations of salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The government also said it will help figure out how to offset the hydropower, transportation and other benefits provided by four dams on [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Federal auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that is designed to prevent drunk or impaired driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration earlier this week announced that it is starting the process to put a new federal safety standard in place requiring the [...]
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — The heart of Lahaina, the historic town on the Hawaiian island of Maui that burned in a deadly wildfire that killed at least 100 people, is reopening to residents and business owners holding day passes. The renewed access earlier this week marks an important emotional milestone for victims of the Aug. [...]
GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska (AP) — In recent years, city leaders in Grand Island, Neb., observed that many workers and students were walking or biking long distances to their jobs or schools. So, when the city administrator, Laura McAloon, learned of an opportunity to study the development of a bus system to meet those transportation needs, [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, the university’s highest governing body announced this week. “Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and [...]
More Americans are expected to fly or drive far from home over Christmas than they did last year, putting a cap on a busy year for travel. Auto club AAA forecasts that 115.2 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home during the 10 days between Dec. 23 and New Year's Day. That's [...]