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NEW YORK (AP) — Drivers are in for another headache at the pump as gas prices around the nation continue to rise. The national average for gas prices stood at about $3.78 a gallon earlier this week — about 25 cents higher than that seen one month ago, according to motor club AAA. While today’s [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The largest dam removal project in the country’s history is underway along the California-Oregon border — a process that won’t conclude until the end of next year with the help of heavy machinery and explosives. In some ways, however, removing the dams is the easy part. The hard part will come [...]
MILAN (AP) — During Europe’s heat wave last month, Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week. A truck of rented generators blocked her door as they fed power to the central Roman neighborhood hit by a blackout as temperatures surged. The main culprit: air conditioning. The period — in which temperatures [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the country finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades. Median rent rose just 0.5 percent in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit [...]
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Not long ago, Marine Col. Jennifer Nash, a combat engineer with war deployments under her belt, made a vow to fellow officers as they headed to a dinner in Atlanta: She would get two new recruiting contacts by the end of the evening. She admits recruiting is not the job [...]
CHICAGO — More than a third of the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet come from growing and raising farm animals, but millions of cattle, pigs and other animals get to stay cool in the United States and other parts of the developed world. Many American farmers have apps to forecast animal comfort in the heat. [...]
Researchers at The Ohio State University say they have devised a better way to monitor traffic conditions on crowded campus-area streets with the combination of real-time data and artificial intelligence automation. Using the cameras already installed on campus buses, the scientists demonstrated that they could automatically and accurately measure counts of vehicles on urban roadways, [...]
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by shepherding the development of the first atomic bomb is expected to be a blockbuster, dramatic and full of suspense. On the sidelines will be a community downwind from the testing site in the southern New Mexico [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Benjamin Franklin was so busy as an inventor, publisher, diplomat and U.S. founding father that it's easy to lose track of his accomplishments. Add one more to the roster: his early work in printing colonial paper currency designed to counter a constant threat of counterfeiting. Franklin was an early innovator of printing [...]
DYSART, Iowa (AP) — When Al Schafbuch cut back on plowing his Iowa fields decades ago and later began growing cover crops, he was out to save money on fertilizer and reduce erosion. He got those benefits and saw his soil change for the better, too: dark, chunky, richly organic matter that he said feels [...]