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RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — At a sprawling military installation in the middle of the rolling green hills of eastern Kentucky, a milestone is about to be reached in the history of warfare dating back to World War I. Workers at the Blue Grass Army Depot are close to destroying rockets filled with GB nerve agent [...]
HONOLULU — The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between verdant, towering cliffs of the Koolau mountain range and the Pacific. Yet the stunning views obscure an environmental problem beneath the ground. This rural part of the island of Oahu is not connected to city sewers — [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Travelers seeking a valid passport should be prepared to wait for that document due to a much-feared backup of passport applications. The backup is happening as worldwide travel rebounds toward record pre-pandemic levels — with too few workers to handle the load. The result, according to aspiring travelers in the United States [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials last week said they will make it easier for scientists to relocate plants and animals outside of their historical ranges as a last resort to save species threatened with extinction. Relocations of species have been carried out on a limited basis to date, including in Hawaii, where researchers have [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week released a landmark decision that struck down affirmative action and left colleges across the nation searching for new ways to promote student diversity. Leaders of scores of universities said last week that they were disappointed by what they see as a blow to diversity. Yet many also [...]
REPRESA, California (AP) — The graduates lined up, brushing off their gowns and adjusting classmates' tassels and stoles. As the graduation march played, the 85 men appeared to hoots and cheers from their families. They marched to the stage — one surrounded by barbed wire fence and constructed by fellow prisoners. For those were no [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is in the midst of a fundraising campaign to raise $25 million for a new building to house its education center and what has become one of the world's unique collections of baseball memorabilia. Museum President Bob Kendrick said the "Pitch for the Future" campaign is [...]
When millionaire Steve Fossett's plane went missing over the Nevada range in 2007, the swashbuckling adventurer had already been the subject of two prior emergency rescue operations thousands of miles apart. That prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping search for the wealthy risktaker ended, who should foot the bill? In recent days, the massive [...]
NEW YORK — Charitable giving in the United States declined in 2022 — only the third time in four decades that donations did not increase year over year — according to a report from Giving USA. Total giving fell 3.4 percent in 2022 to $499.3 billion in current dollars, a drop of 10.5 percent when [...]
Researchers at The Ohio State University revealed in a recent study of bumble bees’ dietary options that the pollinators appear to have more sophisticated preferences than one might think. Through observation of nearly 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions during a two-year period, scientists found that these bees don’t always settle for the most abundant flowers in [...]