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Dr. Dominique Keller, chief veterinarian, holds an experimental influenza vaccine prior to administering to a group of California condors at the Los Angeles Zoo, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. Antibodies found in early results of a historic new vaccine trial are expected to give endangered California condors at least partial protection from the deadliest strain of avian influenza in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

New vaccine expected to give endangered California condors protection against deadly bird flu

By Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press

A jet takes flight from Sky Harbor International Airport as the sun sets over Phoenix, July 12, 2023. The toll of heat associated deaths still being tallied after the hottest summer ever in Arizona’s most populous county has now soared over 360, alarming public health officials. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

The toll of heat deaths in the Phoenix area soars after the hottest summer on record

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, on Nov. 6, 2020. The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident in 2022 when a massive piece of marble at least two feet in length crashed to the ground in an interior courtyard used by the justices and their aides. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court adds second case seeking to rein in power of federal agencies

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

This photo provided by Lynne Buckner shows a Kings River pryg, a springsnail found in 13 isolated springs around Thacker Pass, 200 miles northeast of Reno, Nev., on April 7, 2022. Environmentalists in an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a lithium mine being built in Nevada are poised to return to court with a new approach accusing federal wildlife officials of dragging their feet on a year-old petition seeking endangered species protection for the tiny snail that lives nearby. (Lynne Buckner via AP)

Tiny snails versus lithium mine: Enviromentalists plan to sue over Nevada mine to save the snail

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

Climate activists rally in front of the White House at Lafayette Square to demand that President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency and move the country rapidly away from fossil fuels, July 4, 2023, in Washington. After being thwarted by Congress, Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program. (AP Photo/Yuri Gripas, File)

House GOP launches probe into legality of Biden Climate Corps

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. The spacecraft will travel to the metallic asteroid Psyche, where it will enter orbit in 2029 and be the first spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

NASA spacecraft launched to mysterious and rare metal asteroid in first mission of its kind

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell delivers a speech at Peking University in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. The European Union's top foreign policy official warned Friday that public sentiment in Europe could turn more protectionist if the region's trade deficit with China is not reduced. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

EU warns China that European public could turn more protectionist if trade deficit isn’t reduced

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A California condor takes to flight at the Los Angeles Zoo on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Grand Canyon National Park warns: ‘Love locks’ on fences hurt endangered condor

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Containers of Roundup sit on a store shelf on Feb. 24, 2019, in San Francisco. A European Union decision on whether to authorize the use of the controversial chemical herbicide glyphosate in the 27-nation bloc for at least 10 more years was delayed for a month after member countries failed to agree on Friday Oct. 13, 2023. Over the past decade, glyphosate, used in products like the weedkiller Roundup, has been at the heart of heated scientific debate about whether it causes cancer and its possible disruptive effect on the environment. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

EU can’t reach decision on prolonging the use of chemical herbicide glyphosate

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Flames emerge from burners on a natural gas stove, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Walpole, Mass. Gas and construction trade groups are suing to block New York state’s controversial ban on gas stoves and furnaces in new buildings. The organizations filed the case against the state Thursday, Oct. 12, in federal court and are arguing the law violates the federal government’s rules around how gas appliances are regulated. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Lawsuit to block New York’s ban on gas stoves is filed by gas and construction groups

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Kenya Cabinet Secretary for defence Aden Duale speaks during the joint press conference after a signing defence cooperation agreement in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday Sept. 25, 2023. The U.S. and Kenya signed a defense agreement Monday that will see the East African nation get resources and support for security deployments as it is poised to lead a multi-national peacekeeping mission to Haiti to combat gang violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Kenya Cabinet approved sending police to lead peace mission in Haiti but parliament must sign off

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm testifies during a House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Washington. The White House has selected the Philadelphia area and West Virginia for two regional hubs to produce and deliver hydrogen fuel, an important part of the Biden administration's clean energy plan, according to a person familiar with the plan. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Biden awards $7 billion for clean hydrogen hubs across the country to help replace fossil fuels

By Matthew Daly and Marc Levy - Associated Press

Jason Hale, center with drum, from the Institute for Indigenous Studies at Lehigh University, sings an indigenous song during a ceremony announcing the Indigenous Peoples Cultural and Heritage Tourism Initiative, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Pennsylvania's lack of federally recognized tribal nations means there's been an incomplete picture of its Native American culture and history, officials said Friday, announcing a grant-funded program designed to change that. (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa)

Pennsylvania seeks to expand public awareness of its Indigenous culture and history

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks on the first day of the executive board meeting of the IOC ahead of the upcoming 141st IOC session in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Climate change sees IOC aim to choose hosts of 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics at same time next July

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In this May 27, 2011, file photo, kids fish at twilight at the edge of Kingman Wash, at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. Regional health officials say a Las Vegas-area boy died from a rare brain-eating amoeba that investigators think he was exposed to in warm waters at Lake Mead. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Brain-eating amoebas present in hot springs, Lake Mead National Recreation Area warns

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, U.N. says

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Debris remains strewn across a parking lot at Causeway Plaza in Dunedin, Fla., on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. An early morning storm system that moved across parts of Florida left a path of damage to cars, houses and businesses. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Early morning storms leave path of damage from Tampa Bay into north Florida. No injuries reported

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Dominican soldiers stand on the bridge that crosses the border between Haiti and Dajabon in the Dominican Republic, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The Dominican Republic partially reopened its border with Haiti on Wednesday to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier in a continuing spat over the construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)

Haiti refuses to open key border crossing with Dominican Republic in spat over canal

By Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon - Associated Press

Sen. Rob Cowles, from left, Rep. Rob Swearingen, Sen. Eric Wimberger, at podium, and Rep. Jeff Mursau address the media as they introduce a revised version of their bill to combat PFAS contamination on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. in the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (Todd Richmond/AP Photo)

Wisconsin committee sets up Republican-authored PFAS bill for Senate vote

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said the FBI did not contact him about the hack into his personal email account until after WikiLeaks began publishing his emails by the thousands on Oct. 7, 2016. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

John Podesta: Inflation Reduction Act ‘spurred action’ overseas despite allies’ ‘bitching’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times