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What used to be a rare one-two punch of consecutive hurricanes hitting about the same place in the United States weeks apart may happen more often, according to a new study that claims climate change will make back-to-back storms more frequent and nastier in the future. Using computer simulations, scientists at Princeton University calculated that [...]
BALTIMORE — Using $2 million in federal grant funding, Baltimore officials will start developing a plan to reconnect black neighborhoods by potentially demolishing a stretch of thoroughfare that displaced hundreds of families amid a failed highway construction project decades ago. The city's so-called "Highway to Nowhere" was designed to connect the downtown business district to [...]
NEW YORK — Bulletproof vests and drones. Pickup trucks, walkie-talkies and tourniquets. These are just some of the items that individuals and non-profits have donated to buy and ship to Ukraine, where sometimes they are then used by those fighting Russia's invasion. "We've had these discussions countless times," said Igor Markov, a director of the [...]
WASHINGTON — Soy, oat, almond and other drinks that bill themselves as "milk" can keep using the name, according to draft federal rules released last week. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don't pretend to be from dairy animals — and that U.S. consumers aren't confused by the difference. Dairy [...]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The air-conditioning gave out as students returned from summer break last year to Jim Hill High School in Jackson, Miss., forcing them to learn in sweltering heat. By Thanksgiving, students were huddling under blankets because the heat wasn't working. Along the way students dealt with broken showers in locker rooms, plumbing [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dozens of traditional irrigation systems that supply community farms, gardens and orchards in northern New Mexico won't flow with water this spring, forcing many families to decide whether to risk planting crops this year with no guarantee of water. Rural officials testified this week before a state Senate committee, saying the damage [...]
Work on a $10 billion project that will funnel renewable energy across the West has come to a halt in southwestern Arizona, with Native American tribes saying the federal government has ignored concerns about effects that the SunZia transmission line will have on religious and cultural sites. Federal land managers temporarily suspended work on the [...]
Pedro Yudel Bruzon was looking for someone in the United States to support his effort to seek asylum when he landed on a Facebook page filled with posts demanding up to $10,000 for a financial sponsor. It's part of an underground market that's emerged since the Biden administration announced it would accept 30,000 immigrants each [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — While some Republicans blame the COVID-19 vaccine or "wokeness" for the Army's recruiting woes, military service officials say the bigger hurdles are more traditional ones: Young people don't want to die or get injured, deal with the stress of Army life and put their lives on hold. They "just don't see the [...]
For homeowners who have been holding off on home improvements, a new law signed last year and now in effect as of Jan. 1 may provide a fresh incentive. The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, includes tax credits and rebates for homeowners who make energy-saving updates to their homes. Credits for improvements such as new [...]