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October 16, 2018

Idaho wildlife official resigns after killing baboon family

A top Idaho wildlife official has resigned amid outrage over a photo of him posing with a baboon family he killed in Africa.

October 16, 2018

Check-in with facial recognition now possible in Shanghai

It's now possible to check in automatically at Shanghai's Hongqiao airport using facial recognition technology, part of an ...

October 16, 2018

Payments companies hit deadline for keeping data in India

Global credit card and payments companies like American Express, Visa and MasterCard are facing a challenge in meeting a ...

October 16, 2018

Deaths spark calls in Nepal for better warning systems

The bodies of five South Korean climbers killed in a fierce storm last week on a mountain in Nepal were set to head home ...

October 16, 2018

How DC unleashed fossil-fuel exports despite climate worries

Energy Secretary Rick Perry's keynote speech at the World Gas Conference in June opened with a marching band and ended with ...

October 16, 2018

California utilities say wind-driven outages still possible

California utilities were restoring electricity after intentionally cutting it to tens of thousands of people because of ...

October 16, 2018

California utilities shut off power amid wildfire concerns

Concerned about downed power lines sparking wildfires, two major California utilities took the rare step of cutting power to ...

October 16, 2018

Voter records offered for sale month ahead of elections

Security researchers say an estimated 35 million voter records from 19 U.S. states have been offered for sale on a dark web ...

October 16, 2018

Insurer Anthem will pay record $16M for massive data breach

The nation's second-largest health insurer has agreed to pay the government a record $16 million to settle potential privacy ...

October 16, 2018

Trump may not know what's behind warming, but scientists do

Despite what President Donald Trump says, scientists have long known that what's warming the planet isn't natural. It's us.

October 15, 2018

Cattle roundup over: Last cow caught weeks after truck crash

Officials say a cow that hoofed it for two weeks on the lam after a livestock truck overturned on a busy interstate junction ...

October 15, 2018

NASA X-ray Space Telescope back online after brief shutdown

One of NASA's space telescopes is back in business after a two-day shutdown. NASA said Monday that the Chandra X-ray ...

October 15, 2018

Global warming to leave us crying in our costlier beer

Add beer to chocolate , coffee and wine as some of life's little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and ...

October 15, 2018

France: 12 die in floods unseen in more than a century

Flash floods that tore through several towns in southwest France following an overnight storm killed at least 12 people, ...

October 15, 2018

The Latest: France's Macron offers flood victims solidarity

The Latest on flash floods in southwest France (all times local): 6:15 p.m. French President Emmanuel Macron has extended the ...

October 15, 2018

Hurricane Michael adds to hardship of Florida's poor

Mary Frances Parrish is expecting to be without electricity for several weeks, or roughly the same time the terminally ill ...

October 15, 2018

Climbers who died in Nepal storm included famed South Korean

The nine climbers who died during the worst disaster on a Nepal mountain in recent years included the first South Korean to ...

October 15, 2018

Trump says climate change not a hoax, not sure of its source

President Donald Trump is backing off his claim that climate change is a hoax but says he doesn't know if it's manmade and ...

October 15, 2018

Ohio US senate candidates spar over health care, immigration

Candidates in Ohio's U.S. senate campaign sparred Sunday over health care, approaches to climate change, student loan debt, ...