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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army is launching a sweeping overhaul of its recruiting to focus more on young people who have spent time in college or are job hunting early in their careers, as it scrambles to reverse years of enlistment shortfalls. A major part of the overhaul is the formation of a new professional [...]
LAHAINA, Hawaii — Shaun "Buge" Saribay felt like giving up. Hours of makeshift firefighting with garden hoses and buckets of water across Lahaina didn't stop flames from consuming his house, his rental properties and thousands of other structures in his beloved hometown. Drained, dirty and delirious, he continued anyway, pedaling a bicycle he found during [...]
Hours before devastating fires scorched the historic town of Lahaina on Maui, Kyle Ellison labored to save his rental house in Kula, a rural mountain town 24 miles away, from a different blaze. As high winds whipped burning trees and grass, Ellison and his landlord struggled with plummeting water pressure. Ellison had to wait for [...]
PARIS — It's rush hour on Paris' Sébastopol Boulevard, and the congestion is severe — not just gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing, horn-honking snarls but also quieter and greener bottlenecks of cyclists jockeying for space. Until four years ago, motorists largely had the Paris thoroughfare to themselves. Now, its bike-lane jams speak to a cycling revolution that is [...]
HOUSTON — Houston officials last week approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases. Residents and local officials have long blamed the high number of cancer cases on contamination from a [...]
POMFRET, Vt. (AP) — Social media users take note: You won’t be able to snap that fall foliage selfie at a popular Vermont spot. The town has temporarily closed the road to nonresidents due to overcrowding and “poorly behaved tourists.” The scenic, winding Vermont passage named Cloudland Road is now temporarily closed to nonresidents and [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. "They're all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they're engineers, they're scientists," said Tran, 17. "And you can't do any of those things without math." Tran also loves math. This summer, he studied [...]
LOS ANGELES — The union representing screenwriters reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to end a strike after nearly five months, raising hopes that a shutdown of movie and television filming could be near an end. Actors remain on strike, but the deal with writers might help them find a resolution soon as well. [...]
JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A group of migrants from China surrendered to a Border Patrol agent in remote Southern California as gusts of wind drowned the hum of high-voltage power lines, joining others from Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and elsewhere in a desert campsite with shelters made from tree branches. Their arrival last week [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The first big test of whether privately owned high-speed passenger train service can prosper in the United States started last week in Florida with Brightline’s commencement of running trains between Miami and Orlando, reaching speeds of 125 mph. It's a $5 billion bet Brightline's owner, Fortress Investment Group, is making, believing that [...]