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Fires burn along Highway 27 in Beauregard Parish, La., Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. The wildfire in southwestern Louisiana forced 1,200 residents in the town of Merryville, located in Beauregard Parish, to evacuate on Thursday. (Brad Bowie/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Entire Louisiana town under mandatory evacuation because of wildfire

By Sara Cline - Associated Press

Rescue workers evacuate villagers through a boat from a flooded area of Pakpattan district of Pakistan's Punjab province, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Rescuers have evacuated more than 100,000 people from flood-hit areas of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province in the past three weeks, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo)

UNICEF says a year on from Pakistan’s catastrophic floods, millions of children still need support

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

This May 14, 2020, photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps shows the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. A military jet crashed near the base and a search-and-rescue operation was underway, the U.S. Marine Corps said in a statement early Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. The F/A-18 went down on Thursday, Aug. 24, in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, according to a base press release. (Lance Cpl. Julian Elliott-Drouin/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

A Marine Corps pilot has died in the crash of a combat jet near a military air station in San Diego

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This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Legionella pneumophila bacteria which are responsible for causing the pneumonic disease Legionnaires' disease. Poland's internal security officers were searching for the source of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease which has killed seven people and infected more than 100 others in the strategic city of Rzeszow, near the border with Ukraine, authorities said Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (Francis Chandler/CDC via AP, File)

Legionnaires’ disease kills 7 people in a strategic Polish city on the Ukrainian border

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In this March 23, 2010, photo, workers from California Green Design install solar electrical panels on the roof of a home in Glendale, Calif. California's utilities must generate 60 percent of their energy from wind, solar and other renewable sources by 2030, a requirement 10 percent higher than their previous mandate. It set the goal of phasing out electricity from fossil fuels by 2045, though Hawaii has a 100 percent renewable energy mandate. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) **FILE**

Dirty-to-green job transitions ‘exceedingly rare’ despite Biden’s promises to blue-collar workers

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A Federal Aviation Administration sign hangs in the tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, March 16, 2017. U.S. regulators are requiring immediate inspections and possible repairs to Pratt & Whitney engines on some Airbus passenger jets because of a risk that parts could fail and damage the planes during flight. The FAA said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, that it acted after further analysis of an engine shutdown last December that required pilots of an Airbus A320neo to abort a takeoff. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Pilot crashes seaplane in Maryland field, with no injuries reported

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A pair of U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornets fly over Wrigley Field before a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and Chicago Cubs, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Search is on for pilot of Marine jet that crashed near San Diego

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Flames burn a forest during wildfires near the village of Sykorrahi, near Alexandroupolis town, in the northeastern Evros region, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Advancing flames are devouring forests and homes in Greece as wildfires that have killed 20 people are raging. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras)

Firefighters in Greece discover another body, bringing this week’s death toll from wildfires to 21

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Illustration on taxing energy production by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Tax increases on oil and gas production will tank U.S. energy industry

By Isaac Orr and Trevor Lewis

Flames burn a forest during wildfires near the village of Sykorrahi, near Alexandroupolis town, in the northeastern Evros region, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Advancing flames are devouring forests and homes in Greece as wildfires that have killed 20 people are raging. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras)

Major wildfires sweeping through forests in Greece force evacuations near Athens and the northeast

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings executive Junichi Matsumoto, center, who is in charge of the treated water release from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, announces that the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater will be released into the Pacific Ocean later Thursday from the plant, in the Okuma town on the northeastern coast of Japan, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will begin releasing the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean later Thursday, the utility executives said. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant begins its wastewater release

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

The sun sets behind an idle pump jack near Karnes City, Texas, April 8, 2020. Texas can feel like a study in contrasts. One example being that the state is famed for its oil industry, but is the producer of a quarter of the country’s wind energy and a leader in solar power. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Swiss billionaire-backed climate group targets GOP debate: ‘Will they ever stand up to Big Oil?’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon at ISRO's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. India has landed a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, an uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements, as the country cements its growing prowess in space and technology. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India makes history with landing near moon’s South Pole

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Christie accuses Ramaswamy of sounding like ChatGPT

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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey declares a state of emergency Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023 in Boston, citing the influx of migrants to the state in need of shelter. Healey said there are nearly 5,600 families or more than 20,000 individuals – many of whom are migrants -- currently living in state shelter across Massachusetts. That's up from around 3,100 families a year ago, about an 80 percent increase. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)

Climate activists crash Massachusetts governor’s swanky Democratic fundraiser

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Illustration on surveillance of employees and the workplace by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How surveillance is undermining the future of work

By Gleb Tsipursky

Firefighters try to control a wildfire from houses in Acharnes a suburb of northern Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Water-dropping planes from several European countries joined hundreds of firefighters Wednesday battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that have left at least 20 people dead, while major blazes were also burning in Spain's Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

European firefighters and planes join battle against wildfires that have left 20 dead in Greece

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Washington Metropolitan Police vehicles hold on the perimeter of the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Climate activists block traffic in D.C. for second time this week

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A general view shows the aftermath of a devastating wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century swept through the Maui community of Lahaina, authorities say anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people remain unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

McCarthy says Congress will investigate Maui fires

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Ohio Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

House panel launches investigation into illegal Chinese lab in California

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times