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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Struggling to deal with a severe drought, water authorities in central Mexico decided last week to stop taking water from a rapidly emptying reservoir that is home to an upscale lakeside community. Residents around the Valle de Bravo reservoir had protested about Mexico City drawing water from the lake, an area [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — Reminders of the 2002 Winter Olympics are nestled in every nook and cranny of Utah's capital city, from a towering Olympic cauldron that overlooks the Salt Lake Valley to an Olympic emblem stamped on manhole covers downtown. As visitors leave the airport, they are greeted with a can't-miss Olympic arch amid [...]
With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely about to be laid off. She was right, she tells them in a subsequent clip, but she was planning to pursue a different career anyway: as a content creator. "I [...]
Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals — going on to infuriate and disgust generations of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous that they're known as common rats, street rats or sewer [...]
The United States crossed a significant at the end of 2023. For the first time, wind-power turbines sent electricity to the power grid from commercial-scale offshore wind farms. A turbine in the South Fork Wind Farm 35 miles from Montauk Point, N.Y., sent power to the state’s grid. A few weeks later, a turbine in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms came through unlicensed dealers who aren't required to perform background checks over a five-year period, according to new data released last week by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. That represents 54 percent of the illegally trafficked firearms in the country between 2017 and [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lost in the hubbub surrounding California's new $20-per-hour minimum wage for food workers is how that raise could impact public schools, forcing districts to compete with the likes of McDonald's and Wendy's for cafeteria workers amid a state budget crunch. The minimum wage law that took effect April 1 guarantees at [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon organizers will soon have to pay a bridge toll, just like every other commuter, if New York transit officials have their way. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is demanding the New York Road Runners, organizers of the venerable race generally held the first Sunday of each November, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Belgian family of four was on their fourth trip to the United States. They had been dreading the long line at passport control when they entered the country but had heard about a new app they could use to ease their way and decided to give it a shot. Within minutes, [...]
Southern California's Imperial Irrigation District, which supplies water to farmers who grow most of the nation's winter vegetables, planned to start a conservation program this month to scale back what it draws from the critical Colorado River, but a tiny, tough fish got in the way. Now, those plans won't start until at least June [...]