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Plastic food packaging has become composters’ greatest challenge

Slowly but surely, Americans are getting into composting. Curbside collection is on the rise, and more states and…

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‘Bomb cyclone’ kills 2 and knocks out power to over half a million homes across the northwest US

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — A major storm swept across the northwestern U.S., battering the region with strong winds and…

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An Idaho health department isn’t allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore. Experts say it’s a first

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties…

Nation

In a first, U.S. moves to list many giraffes as endangered

They are the tallest animals trotting on Earth, their long necks and iconic brown spots populating cartoons, children’s…

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Today he is a high school football player. Soon he’ll be a Buddhist lama in the Himalayas

ISANTI, Minn. — The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits…

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The owl hunters

ARCATA, Calif. – The hooting had died down and the two bird lovers faced the immensity of the…

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Herlda Senhouse, the second-oldest U.S. resident, dies at age 113

WELLESLEY, Mass. — Herlda Senhouse, who founded a jazz dance group to raise money for Black students in…

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Bela Karolyi, coach of Olympic champion gymnasts who was criticized after Nassar scandal, dies at 82

Bela Karolyi, the charismatic if polarizing gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the United States…

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Shel Talmy, produced hits by The Who, The Kinks and other 1960s British bands, dead at 87

NEW YORK — Shel Talmy, a Chicago-born music producer and arranger who worked on such British punk classics…

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STD epidemic slows as new syphilis and gonorrhea cases fall in U.S.

NEW YORK — The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained…

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