Nation & World
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
When red-hot isn’t enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level
U.S. health and weather officials are unveiling a new color-coded system to warn Americans about heat danger, and it will set magenta as the most dangerous level.
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
‘Help me, help me’: Bus driver stabbed, reviving fears about safety on public transit
Assaults on transit workers have tripled over the last 15 years, according to research from the Urban Institute, making it more difficult for public agencies to recruit and retain their workers.
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
Jury: Railway contributed to 2 deaths in Montana town where asbestos sickened thousands
The 2 victims were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through Libby, Montana.
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
The pandemic exposed staff shortages at nursing homes. The White House aims for a remedy
The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing levels after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed grim realities in poorly staffed facilities.
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
George Mallory’s last letter from Everest said odds of reaching top were ‘50 to 1 against us’
The final letter that George Mallory wrote to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago has been digitalized.
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
Key takeaways from the opening statements in Donald Trump’s hush money trial
The opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former American president provided a clear roadmap of how prosecutors will try to make the case that Donald Trump broke the law, and how the defense plans to fight the charges on multiple fronts
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
Local election workers fear threats to their safety as November nears. One group is trying to help
Threats to election offices that have been an alarming consequence of Trump's false claims about his 2020 loss loom as a perilous wildcard for the thousands of local government workers who will oversee the election this fall.
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
Biden marks Earth Day with $7 billion in federal solar power grants
The 60 funded recipients, including the Maine Governor's Energy Office, will serve 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities.
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
TikTok digs in to fight U.S. ban with 170 million users at stake
The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday put legislation requiring ByteDance to divest its ownership stake in TikTok on a fast track to become law.
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PublishedApril 22, 2024
Supreme Court will take up the fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers
At issue is a federal regulation that changed the definition of a firearm to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun, so they can be tracked more easily.
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