The number of customers without electricity in Maine fell to around 500 by Sunday afternoon, six days after a fierce wind and rain storm knocked out power to about 500,000 customers.
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Putin’s liberal critic opts not to run in presidential campaign
He would only consider running if he got 10 million signatures to support his candidacy, but only has about 1 million.
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In this village in eastern Germany, letters to Santa get a reply
Almost 40 years ago, postal worker Kornelia Matzke unwittingly turned her town into the focus for children’s yuletide wishes when she started answering the letters that showed up in her small town post office.
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Saving animals from extinction is a climate strategy, too
The Biden administration has responded by proposing some new ESA regulations of its own, including one that would allow it to introduce species outside their historic habitats as a way of getting in front of global warming.
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Musk promised an anti-‘woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned.
Grok is the first commercial product from xAI, the AI company Musk founded. Like ChatGPT it is based on a large language model that gleans patterns of word association from vast amounts of written text, much of it scraped from the internet.
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Sidewalk talks delay Hidden Hills project
Matthew Chamberlain says he wants to build a seniors paradise in Biddeford — but negotiations over sidewalks have held up the manufactured housing development.
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Air National Guardsman accused of leaking documents seen as potential mass shooter, probe finds
Jack Teixeira’s Massachusetts Air National Guard co-workers said that as early as the summer of 2021 he exhibited warning signs they had been trained to look out for in a potential active shooter.
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How ‘The Chipmunk Song’ became an unlikely Christmas megahit
In a year that also produced ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ and ‘Run Rudolph Run,’ sales of ‘The Chipmunk Song’ nonetheless shot into the millions before New Year’s Day.
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Israel strikes two homes, killing more than 90 Palestinians while hundreds have been detained
Rescuers and hospital officials say Israeli strikes flattened two Gaza homes. The dead included dozens from an extended family.
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‘Pray for us’: Eyewitnesses reveal first clues about missing boat of Rohingya refugees
It’s a story of two boats in distress at sea: One was saved, the other vanished.