The worst wildfire season in Canadian history is displacing Indigenous communities from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, blanketing them in thick smoke, destroying homes and forests and threatening important cultural activities like hunting, fishing and gathering native plants.
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IRS whistleblowers airing claims to Congress about ‘slow-walking’ of the Hunter Biden case
It is unclear how much of the conflict described by the whistleblowers amounts to internal disagreement about how to pursue the investigation or a pattern of interference and preferential treatment.
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After nearly 30 years, Tupac Shakur’s long-unsolved killing again under spotlight
Authorities in Nevada served a search warrant this week in connection with the rap star’s shooting death.
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Texas trooper’s accounts of bloodied and fainting migrants on U.S.-Mexico border unleashes criticism
Trooper Nicholas Wingate says he and another officer were ordered to ‘push the people back’ into the river and deny them drinking water.
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House Republicans propose planting a trillion trees as they move away from climate change denial
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.