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October 23, 2017

EPA keeps scientists from speaking about report on climate

The Environmental Protection Agency has kept three scientists from appearing at an event in Rhode Island about a report that ...

October 23, 2017

Cisco Systems buying BroadSoft for $1.9 billion cash

Cisco Systems Inc. will pay about $1.9 billion cash to buy BroadSoft Inc. in a move aimed at expanding its communications ...

October 23, 2017

Not so cold duck? Man keeps looking for bird thought extinct

Hope is the thing with feathers, poet Emily Dickinson wrote. For Richard Thorns, the feathers are pink. Thorns' hope? To ...

October 23, 2017

New flight paths lead to airplane noise complaints across US

Airliners began flying over Twila Lake's bungalow-style house in a historic district three years ago, taking off every one ...

October 22, 2017

Czech office says election result web sites were hacked

The Czech Statistics Office says the web sites it used to publish results from a parliamentary election were hacked.

October 22, 2017

More than a dozen states still refuse to release voter data

These are state-by-state responses to a request for detailed voter data from President Donald Trump's Presidential Advisory ...

October 22, 2017

African rhino injures poacher in rare reversal of fortunes

A rhino turned the tables on a suspected poacher in Namibia, charging and injuring the man while he was allegedly tracking it

October 21, 2017

Google parent turns on internet balloons in Puerto Rico

Google's parent Alphabet Inc. said Friday that its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of ...

October 21, 2017

Questions and answers on proposed ban on laptops in luggage

First the U.S. government temporarily banned laptops in the cabins of some airplanes. Now it is looking to ban them from ...

October 21, 2017

Senators press Pruitt for concessions on biofuels mandate

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is looking to make peace on biofuels standards with a group of senators from ...

October 20, 2017

Top Democrat: WH won't ID employees who used private email

The White House counsel's office is refusing to tell a committee on Capitol Hill which of President Donald Trump's aides used ...

October 20, 2017

Monsanto sues Arkansas board for banning disputed herbicide

A major agribusiness company sued Arkansas regulators on Friday for banning its version of an herbicide that's drawn ...

October 20, 2017

Arctic refuge drilling closer as Senate moves to open site

Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one step closer to oil and gas drilling. A budget measure approved by the ...

October 20, 2017

Spacewalking astronaut copes with frayed tether, bad jetpack

A spacewalking astronaut successfully replaced a blurry camera outside the International Space Station on Friday, but had to ...

October 20, 2017

The Latest: Spacewalker's jetpack bad; ordered back inside

The Latest on a spacewalk by two NASA astronauts (all times local): 2:15 p.m. Spacewalking astronauts are back inside the ...

October 20, 2017

Nearly 200 report fireball streaking across Northeast sky

Nearly 200 people across the Northeast reported seeing a bright object streak across the sky. The American Meteor Society ...

October 20, 2017

Mormons allow more technology, smartphones for missionaries

The Mormon church's gradual embrace of the digital age for missionaries took another step forward Friday as the religion ...

October 20, 2017

Viral smartphone game lets ordinary Chinese 'clap' for Xi

Ordinary young Chinese may not have paid close attention to Xi Jinping's 3½-hour speech this week, but they're happy to ...

October 20, 2017

Searchers in Mexico find, but release, vaquita porpoise calf

Researchers trying to catch and enclose the last survivors of the vaquita porpoise species captured a calf but released it ...