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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Are wolves hunting and howling in the Northeast woods again, more than a century after they were rooted out of the region? Advocates who think so say a recent DNA analysis shows a strapping canine shot by a coyote hunter in upstate New York last winter was actually a wolf. They [...]
Soon after the Russian invasion, the hoaxes began. Ukrainian refugees were taking jobs, committing crimes and abusing handouts. The misinformation spread rapidly online throughout Eastern Europe, sometimes pushed by Moscow in an effort to destabilize its neighbors. It's the kind of swift spread of falsehoods that has been blamed in many countries for increased polarization [...]
KINGSTON, Mass. — Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation down to size. The 24-year-old member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe was among a cadre of volunteers rooting out invasive species and tending to recently planted native [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — Blueberry bison tamales, harvest salad with mixed greens, creamy carrot and wild rice soup, roasted turkey with squash. This contemporary Native American meal, crafted from the traditional foods of tribes across the United States and prepared with “Ketapanen” – a Menominee expression of love – cost caterer Jessica Pamonicutt $976 to feed [...]
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Melissa Lee comforted her son and daughter after a student opened fire in their suburban Kansas City high school, wounding an administrator and a police officer stationed there. Then, weeks later, she wept for the parents in Uvalde, Texas, who were forced to bury their children after the massacre there in [...]
Ohio State University researchers, led by Katrina Cornish, are working to increase rubber production in the United States to decrease its reliance on other countries for the widely used product. School researchers say there are numerous benefits to domestic rubber production, including the creation of millions of jobs. “The four most important natural resources we [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — After Terrence Hersey had a stroke on the way home from his railroad job in 2015, he underwent months of therapy to learn how to put words together in sentences and learn to walk again. He had to re-learn how to get in and out of a car and how to [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Vermont farmer Brian Kemp is used to seeing the pastures at Mountain Meadows Farm grow slower in the hot, late summer, but this year the grass is at a standstill. That's "very nerve-wracking" when you're grazing 600 to 700 cattle, said Kemp, who manages an organic beef farm in Sudbury. He describes [...]
WASHINGTON — People in Arizona and Nevada won't face bans on watering their lawns or washing their cars despite water shortages on the Colorado River. However, officials said this week there will still be less water available next year from the river that serves 40 million people in the West and Mexico. Observers say a [...]
CODY, Wyo. (AP) — The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the West's most spectacular predators — the golden eagle — as the species teeters on the edge of decline. Ground zero in the conflict is Wyoming, a stronghold for golden eagles that soar on [...]