Once installed, a new floating barrier will cover 1,000 feet of the middle of the river.
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Climate change ratchets up stress on farmworkers on the front lines of a warming Earth
As Earth this week set and then repeatedly broke unofficial records for average global heat, it served as a reminder of a danger that climate change is making steadily worse for farmworkers and others who labor outside.
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Top Republicans are gearing up to investigate the Hunter Biden case. Here’s what to know.
The congressional inquiry was launched in response to testimony from IRS employees describing a pattern of ‘slow-walking investigative steps’ ahead of the 2020 election.
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Biden takes aim at ‘junk’ insurance, vowing to save money for consumers being played as ‘suckers’
The new proposed rules aims to close loopholes that allow insurers to offer products that can discriminate based on pre-existing conditions and market to consumers policies that provide little or no coverage.
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Fire that killed 2 aboard a cargo ship in New Jersey is expected to burn for days
Killed in the blaze that started Wednesday night were Newark firefighters Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr.
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Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred for pursuing Trump’s false election claims, a review panel says
Giuliani has already had his New York law license suspended for false statements he made after the election. The Washington review panel’s work will now go to the D.C. Court of Appeals for a final decision.
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‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ is here. Here’s how to reconsider Taylor Swift’s transformative album
Taylor Swift’s re-recording of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” is the third album in Swift’s plans to re-record her first six, after her catalog was purchased by music manager Scooter Braun
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Baltimore police arrest 17-year-old in block party shooting that killed 2
The gun violence that flared this week left more than a dozen dead and more than 60 wounded – including children as young as 2 years old.
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Racist Texas gunman who killed 23 people gets 90 consecutive life sentences
Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, making it one of the U.S. government’s largest hate crime cases.
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U.S. set to destroy its last chemical weapons, closing deadly chapter dating to World War I
It’s a defining moment for arms control efforts worldwide.