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'Climate change is kicking our butts.' March smashes heat records for. ..

10+ hour, 46+ min ago  (536+ words) The average maximum temperature for March was especially high at 11. 4 F (6. 3 C) above the 20th century average and was almost a degree warmer than the average daytime high for April, NOAA said. Six of the nation's top 10 most abnormally hot months have…...

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States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals. Data centers a. ..

9+ hour, 53+ min ago  (931+ words) That means the utility could miss Nevada's clean energy targets requiring 50% renewable power by 2030. "I can't remember a time in the history of the industry where we've seen as much interest in adding load, which is primarily driven by data…...

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Russia's internet crackdown leads to a spring of growing discontent

10+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1117+ words) Several dozen people lined up outside a presidential administration building on a sunny spring weekend in central Moscow as police stood nearby and watched them closely. The people were lodging complaints about the government's intensifying crackdown on the internet that…...

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Finland's plan to bury spent nuclear waste carries risk to future gene. ..

10+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1155+ words) We are now at about minus 430 meters (1, 411 feet)," muttered geologist Tuomas Pere as he steered a car through a labyrinth of man-made tunnels. We are driving through 1. 9-billion year old bedrock." After decades of construction, the world's first facility for…...

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Trump's Iran war widens rift with European nationalists once viewed as. ..

10+ hour, 1+ min ago  (778+ words) Although Vice President JD Vance campaigned for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb'n this week, such a display has become the exception rather than the rule among conservatives and far-right leaders in Europe. Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni refused to let…...

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Protesters rally against planned Maryland immigration detention facili. ..

4+ hour, 59+ min ago  (860+ words) It's been like this ever since the Department of Homeland Security bought an 825, 000-square-foot (76, 645-square-meter) building in Washington County as part of a plan to transform warehouses across the U. S. into detention facilities for tens of thousands of immigrants. "This is…...

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The Latest: Ceasefire at risk over Israel's attacks in Lebanon, possib. ..

12+ hour, 29+ min ago  (1715+ words) Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz during the war, a likely pressure tactic as Iran, Israel and the United States are now in…...

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Hawaii doctor accused of trying to kill his wife convicted of attempte. ..

9+ hour, 9+ min ago  (945+ words) A Honolulu jury returned the verdict against Gerhardt Konig, 47, on Wednesday after a day of deliberations. He was convicted of attempted manslaughter based on extreme mental or emotional disturbance, which carries up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing was set for…...

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Eight states, three time zones and a ton of history: Take a trip down. ..

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1417+ words) The Mother Road, as author John Steinbeck dubbed it, has evolved over the years from an escape for poor farmers fleeing the devastating dust storms of the 1930s to perhaps the quintessential American road trip that's still delivering kicks. Although there…...

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Trump promised to cut electric costs in half. Bills in energy-rich Wes. ..

9+ hour, 55+ min ago  (1406+ words) It makes no sense. She turns the lights off during the day and only burns one lamp with an energy-efficient bulb in the living room at night, but she keeps falling further behind on payments. In desperation, she took out…...