EPA retreats on Louisiana investigations that alleged Blacks lived amid higher cancer risk
The Biden administration has dropped investigations into whether Louisiana officials put Black residents living in an industrial stretch of the state at increased cancer risk
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Rainfall likely won't be enough to extinguish Quebec wildfires causing US smoke, officials say
Canadian officials say rainfall likely won’t be enough to extinguish the wildfires ravaging northern Quebec, but the wet weather could give firefighters a chance to get ahead of the flames as the country surpassed the record for area burned by wildfires this week
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Family of Pakistani father and son who died in Titan submersible shares memories and gratitude
The family of two Pakistani men who died in the implosion of a submersible as it descended to the wreckage of the Titanic have thanked everyone who tried to rescue the father and son or sent condolences from around the world
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Ivanka Trump dismissed from New York attorney general's fraud lawsuit against her father
A New York appeals court dismissed Ivanka Trump on Tuesday from a wide-ranging fraud lawsuit brought against her father and his company last year by the state’s attorney general
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MVP pipeline foes say Congress can't 'mandate victory' for the project
By Clark Mindock A provision of the U.S. debt ceiling bill that streamlined the federal approval process for
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Sudan violence likely to push over 1 million refugees out of the African country by October, UN says
The United Nations says the surging violence in Sudan is likely to drive over 1 million refugees out of the African country by October
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Share of US employees working on-site drops from 84% to 74% in pandemic's first year
Workers in the fields of computer science, real estate, finance and insurance experienced the greatest bumps in working from home during the first years of the pandemic, while it barely budged for laborers in occupations like stockers, truck operators and order fillers
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Maine Senate joins House in supporting greater access to abortions
The Maine Senate has joined the House in voting to expand abortion access
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How the 'independent state legislature' theory, now rejected by SCOTUS, fueled chaos in 2020 and could influence 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a controversial legal theory that would've given partisan state lawmakers nearly unchecked power over US elections.
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Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack preceded by intelligence agency failures -Senate report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A new report detailing intelligence failures leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol
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US sanctions gold firms connected to Russian Wagner mercenary group
The U.S. is imposing sanctions on four firms and one individual connected to the Wagner Group
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Argentina 'death flight' plane returned from US
By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES Argentine officials on Monday welcomed the return of an airplane from which
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