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Oil, gas drilling in pristine Alaska refuge takes step ahead

The Trump administration is moving forward on oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, fulfilling ...

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Evidence of an oil spill was obvious, but was it a crime?

An acrid stink of petroleum three years ago sent Santa Barbara County firefighters scrambling in a search for a possible ...

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Bear Cubs Get Rescued by Virginia Police

The Wildlife Center of Virginia has taken in its first black bear cubs of the year, including two bears rescued by a state ...

Cell phones, biometrics fuel jump in bank account ownership

Roughly seven out of every 10 adults worldwide now have some form of bank account, the World Bank said Thursday, largely due ...

Trump's personal attorney has dropped a pair of libel suits

President Donald Trump's personal attorney dropped a pair of libel lawsuits against BuzzFeed and investigation firm Fusion ...

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba sets plans for Thailand

The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has agreed to step up investments in Thailand as competition between online retailers ...

NASA's Tess spacecraft embarks on quest to find new planets

NASA's Tess spacecraft embarked Wednesday on a quest to find new worlds around neighboring stars that could support life.

The Latest: SpaceX rocket booster lands on floating platform

The Latest on the launch of the planet-hunter satellite Tess (all times local): 7:00 p.m. Just minutes after launching NASA's ...

Snowmelt floods roads, fields in much of northern Montana

Runoff from a winter that approached or exceeded record snowfall across much of Montana is washing out roads, flooding fields ...

Zinke signs order to expand recreational opportunities

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has ordered his agency to expand recreational opportunities on public lands and waterways.

Excavator blamed for island-wide blackout in Puerto Rico

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday after an excavator accidentally downed a transmission line, officials ...

Justices skeptical of Washington state over salmon habitat

The Supreme Court seems unlikely to allow Washington state to get out from under a court order to restore salmon habitat by ...

Toy manufacturer Hasbro announces pilot recycling program

Toy manufacturer Hasbro is launching a pilot toy recycling program. WLNE-TV reports that the Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based ...

Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profile

So you want to have a baby. Would you like a dark-haired girl with a high risk of someday getting colon cancer, but a good ...

Iran bans government bodies from using foreign message apps

Iran's presidency has banned all government bodies from using foreign-based messaging apps to communicate with citizens, ...

Wayfair follows Amazon with its own made-up holiday: Way Day

Amazon started Prime Day. Alibaba capitalized on Singles Day. Now another e-commerce company is hoping for success with an ...

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Boston Marathon weather was perfect storm for Desiree Linden

Desiree Linden thought she did everything right to prepare for last year's Boston Marathon: the training, the nutrition, the ...

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Senator wants info on EPA chief's multiple email accounts

The Republican chairman of a Senate oversight committee is pressing the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to ...

Forecasters warn of rare, life-threatening wildfire weather

Forecasters warned of dangerous, life-threatening wildfire conditions in parts of the Southwest and Southern Plains on ...

Trump energy adviser, fossil fuel champion, resigning

A top White House adviser for energy and environmental policy is resigning. Michael Catanzaro will be returning to CGCN ...

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