A 2019 study suggests planting trees to suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could be one of the most effective ways to fight climate change, but environmental scientists call it a distraction from cutting emissions from fossil fuels.
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Rare fossil may show mammal attacking larger dinosaur, possibly for dinner
A newly described fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their skeletons intertwined.
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Effort to find 2 children lost in a Pennsylvania flash flood may soon pivot to an underwater search
The search has covered about 117 acres, with those on land logging some 160 miles.
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Michigan charges 16 fake electors for Donald Trump with election law and forgery felonies
The group includes Republican National Committeewoman Kathy Berden and Meshawn Maddock, former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party.
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Top U.S. firms supplied equipment to keep Russian oil flowing after Ukraine invasion
Customs data show Russia imported 3,279 items from SLB in the year after the invasion, valued at almost $60 million.
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Israel’s democracy remains sound, despite U.S. concerns, its president tells Biden
Israel’s right-wing government is pushing forward with judicial changes that have sparked widespread protest there, and is authorizing the construction of thousands of new housing units in the West Bank.
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Trump’s pretrial hearing in classified documents case ends with no immediate decision on trial date
The former president and an aide have pleaded not guilty to a 38-count indictment that accuses them of conspiring to hide classified documents from Justice Department investigators at Mar-a-Lago after Donald Trump’s term had ended.
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Russia targets Ukraine’s port of Odesa and calls it payback for strike on a key bridge to Crimea
The Russian military has sporadically hit Odesa and the neighboring region throughout the war, but Tuesday’s barrage was one of the biggest attacks on the area.
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Rescued Australian man who was adrift 3 months in Pacific with dog ‘grateful’ to be alive
Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock told Australia’s Nine News television that he and his dog had survived on raw fish and rain water after a storm damaged his vessel and wiped out its electronics.
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Three teens shot, wounded in Times Square as tourists run for cover
Video recovered by police shows the gunman having an argument with the victims, who were part of a larger group, then opening fire.