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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Bill Wehrum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)assistant administrator for air and radiation and previously a lobbyist for coal and oil industry interests, said at a public event in Washington that he supported a rollback of former President...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
The killing of Jamal Khashoggi and Yemen's war have hurt Saudi Arabia's reputation, the chairman of BAE Systems told Sky News, adding Britain as a "critical friend" could help Riyadh refocus on the development push it was making before those crises e...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
If you’re planning an escape from the cold and rainy weather to a sunny tropical locale, don’t forget to pack insect repellent: Dengue fever, spread by mosquitoes, is a key infector of travelers ...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Germany should end all coal mining for electricity production by 2038, a government-appointed commission said Saturday, laying out a roadmap to phase out the polluting fuel. The transition is expected to cost up to 80 billion euros ($91 billion) ove...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
The European Union's team observing the election that is scheduled to take place on Feb. 16, as well as the United States and Britain, expressed concern about the suspension. Nigeria's judiciary has helped resolve electoral disputes after past votes...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Rescuers worked overnight into Saturday searching for around 300 people missing after a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil killed at least nine, but the local governor said "odds are minimal" that they would be found alive. Up to 150 of thos...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The number of confirmed measles cases near Portland grew to 31 on Friday — an outbreak boosted by lower-than-normal vaccination rates in what has been called an anti-vaccination U.S. "hot spot."
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
NASA's 2019 started off with a bang as its New Horizons probe zipped by the most distant object mankind has ever tried to visit, a strange space rock known as Ultima Thule. Scientists quickly discovered that Ultima Thule isn't one object, but...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
“Using national power to tarnish and take measures against a certain company, without any evidence, is both unfair and immoral,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters late Friday as he wrapped up a trip to France and Italy. The move by Vodafone fo...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
President Donald Trump agreed to reopen the federal government on Friday for about three weeks while lawmakers renegotiate border security legislation. The short-term agreement will resuscitate the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has effec...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. system's chief scientist on weather and climate warned Friday that climate change has "a multitude of security impacts" and is increasingly regarded as a national security threat — with global warming reco...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
At a companywide townhall meeting on Thursday, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai fielded questions about the proposals, some of which have been implemented, the people said. The ideas were in a 2016 slide deck drafted by the company’s human reso...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Russia and the US resisted on Friday efforts by the UN Security Council to take a tougher stand on climate change -- a day after UN chief Antonio Guterres warned of a lack of political will to fight global warming. More than 80 people including abou...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
A woman's tweet shared how her grandma still remembered the love between them, even if she couldn't remember who she was.