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September 20, 2017

Hurricane Maria aims at Puerto Rico after slamming Dominica

Hurricane Maria barreled toward Puerto Rico on Tuesday night after wreaking widespread devastation on Dominica and leaving ...

September 20, 2017

Pelting rain, relocation add to woes in Rohingya Muslim camp

Monsoon rains, relocations and extortion attempts are worsening the living situation in the Bangladeshi camps for Rohingya ...

September 20, 2017

Nominee for EPA chemical safety post has deep industry ties

President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency has for years accepted ...

Lindsey Graham, Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, John Barrasso, Bill Cassidy, Mitch McConnell, John Thune

September 20, 2017

Winners and losers in GOP's last-ditch health overhaul

The GOP's last-ditch effort to repeal "Obamacare" would redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal financing for ...

September 20, 2017

Internal watchdog says EPA mismanaging toxic site cleanups

Cleanups at some U.S. hazardous waste sites have stopped or slowed down because the Environmental Protection Agency does not ...

September 19, 2017

Cloudy, cool August restrains melt of Arctic sea ice

Arctic sea ice this summer dropped to its eighth lowest level on record, new federal data show. That's far below average, but ...

September 19, 2017

Equifax says it had a security breach earlier in the year

Equifax, under pressure from a massive data breach, says it had a separate incident earlier this year. That may mean even ...

September 19, 2017

Permits invalidated for big Washington state methanol plant

U.S. environmental groups opposed to the Pacific Northwest becoming an international fossil fuels gateway scored a major ...

September 19, 2017

Giant antennas in New Mexico search for cosmic discoveries

Employing an array of giant telescopes positioned in the New Mexico desert, astronomers have started a massive surveying ...

September 19, 2017

For a new Key West resident, Irma was her welcome-to-town

Prudence Duchene will never forget the day she moved to Key West. It was Aug. 30 — the day a storm brewing in the Atlantic ...

September 19, 2017

AP Exclusive: Evidence of spills at toxic site during floods

The U.S. government received reports of three spills at one of Houston's dirtiest Superfund toxic waste sites in the days ...

September 19, 2017

FEMA isn't relying on trailers to house hurricane victims

The hurricanes that battered Texas and Florida have likely spawned the worst disaster-created housing crisis since Hurricane ...

September 19, 2017

After Irma, Florida Jews seek respite in High Holy Days

During Hurricane Irma, Temple Shalom served as a sanctuary of a different kind. When the storm changed course at the last ...

September 19, 2017

Florida's Irma outages continue despite power grid upgrades

Hundreds of thousands of customers in Florida are still without power nine days after Hurricane Irma hit. Electric companies ...

September 19, 2017

Kohl's to start accepting Amazon returns at some stores

Kohl's, which is opening some in-store Amazon shops, will start accepting returns for the online retailer at some of its ...

September 19, 2017

NY attorney general presses TransUnion, Experian for details

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is pressing two credit monitoring companies to explain what cybersecurity they ...

September 19, 2017

10 Things to Know for Tuesday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday: 1. WHERE HURRICANE ...

September 19, 2017

The Latest: Prime minister: 'Merciless' winds on Dominica

The Latest on tropical weather (all times local): 10 p.m. A series of Facebook posts by Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt ...

September 19, 2017

4 US monuments to be scaled back hold artifacts, key habitat

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendation to shrink four sprawling national monuments in the U.S. West jeopardizes ...