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HONOLULU (AP) — Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui voted last week to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano, the latest observatory project to meet objection in the islands. The U.S. Space Force and Air Force want to build a new facility on the [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has chosen The Ohio State University to lead a $2.5 million campaign by the federal agency designed to help reduce food loss and waste. Brian Roe, a professor in OSU’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will manage the pilot consumer campaign that’s aimed at lowering the amount of food that [...]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia conservation group filed notice of its intent to sue two federal agencies, saying they failed to properly assess the environmental impacts of the $7.6 billion electric vehicle and battery plant Hyundai is building outside Savannah. The Ogeechee Riverkeeper accuses the Army Corps of Engineers of issuing a permit to fill [...]
WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm last week called for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide, but the CEO of the Georgia utility that just finished the first two scratch-built American reactors in a generation at a cost of nearly $35 billion says his company isn't [...]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced vowel sounds. In another corner, children read together from a book. Scattered elsewhere, students sat at laptop computers and received reading help from online tutors. For the third graders at Mount Vernon Community School in Virginia, it was [...]
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate for a racket. She bats the balloon to her home visitor, Mayra Ocampo, and they pass it back and [...]
Cody McDavis' life changed forever with a few strokes of a pen. McDavis grew up in a single-parent home in which his mother worked three jobs to afford life's essentials. There was zero chance of paying for college if not for a basketball scholarship to Northern Colorado. "The assumption was if I didn't get a [...]
ROME — Italy on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S., including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at $65 million, that were looted years ago, sold to U.S. museums, galleries and collectors and recovered as a result of criminal investigations. U.S. Ambassador Jack Markell, Matthew Bogdanos, the [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Cars, trucks and SUVs keep getting older, hitting a record average age of 12.6 years as people hang on to their vehicles largely because new ones cost so much, according to analysts. S&P Global Mobility, which tracks state vehicle registration data nationwide, said that the average vehicle age grew about two months [...]
WASHINGTON — Exploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like everyone else, and an agency that has struggled with low morale is showing improvement. Those are some of the highlights of a survey of more than a million federal workers. In a city that revolves around the federal [...]