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A worker drags caution tape to block off Pico Boulevard after a tree fell, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, in Los Angeles. Tropical Storm Hilary swirled northward Sunday just off the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, no longer a hurricane but still carrying so much rain that forecasters said "catastrophic and life-threatening" flooding is likely across a broad region of the southwestern U.S. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattles Southern California as state gets soaked by tropical storm

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida answers questions from journalists upon his arrival at the prime minister's office on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, in Tokyo. (Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan to start releasing Fukushima plant’s treated radioactive water into sea as early as Thursday

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Vehicles cross over a flood control basin that has almost reached the street, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, in Palm Desert, Calif. Forecasters said Tropical Storm Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing the potential for flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Southern California braces for more floods as tropical storm soaks region from coast to desert

By Christopher Weber, Damian Dovarganes and Jordi Lebrija - Associated Press

This photo released by the Roscosmos State Space Corporation on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, shows an image of the lunar south pole region on the far side of the moon captured by Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft before its failed attempt to land. Russia's Roscosmos state corporation said Sunday that the Luna-25 crashed into the moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit. The authorities have opened an inquiry into the possible cause. (Centre for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure-Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)

Russian space agency chief blames decades of inactivity for Luna-25 lander’s crash on the moon

By Emma Burrows - Associated Press

Illustration on Democrat's climate change agenda gaslighting by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Liberals’ climate agenda brings out the gaslighting

By Robert Knight

In this photo taken from video and released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russia's Far East, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon. Russia’s unmanned robot lander crashed after it had spun into uncontrolled orbit, the country’s space agency Roscosmos reported on Sunday, Aug. 20. 2023. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole

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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a joint news conference with President Joe Biden and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, at Camp David, the presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Md. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Japan’s Kishida to visit Fukushima plant before deciding date to start controversial water release

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a humpback chub in the Colorado River basin in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The National Park Service will renew efforts to rid an area of the Colorado River in northern Arizona of invasive fish by killing them with a chemical treatment, the agency said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. It’s the latest tactic in an ongoing struggle to keep non-native smallmouth bass and green sunfish at bay below the Glen Canyon Dam and to protect a threatened native fish, the humpback chub. (Travis Francis/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)

Chemical treatment to be deployed against invasive fish in Colorado River

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A general view shows the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Hope is hard to let go of as odds wane over reuniting with still-missing loved ones after a fire swept across the town of Lahaina on Hawaii's Maui island earlier this month. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Top FEMA official touts progress in Hawaii recovery efforts, previews Biden’s trip to Maui

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

This Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, 1:10 p.m. EDT satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Hilary, right, off Mexico’s Pacific coast. It grew rapidly to Category 4 strength and could reach Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years, causing “significant and rare impacts” including extensive flooding. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said a tropical storm watch has been issued for Southern California, the first time it has ever done that. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Hilary threatens dangerous rain for Mexico’s Baja, California may get rare tropical storm

By Ignacio Martinez and Julie Watson - Associated Press

FILE - A pumpjack dips its head to extract oil in a basin north of Helper, Utah, July 13, 2023. A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday, Aug. 18, struck down a critical approval for a railroad project that would have allowed oil businesses in eastern Utah to significantly expand fossil fuel production and exports. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Appeals court strikes down Utah oil railroad approval, siding with environmentalists

By Sam Metz - Associated Press

This 2012 photo provided by Delbridge Museum shows an exhibit at the Delbridge Museum of Natural History in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Great Plains Zoo in South Dakota said Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, that it has pulled its taxidermy collection off display after almost 40 years over concerns about the impact of strong chemicals used to preserve the animals. (Delbridge Museum of Natural History via AP)

Natural history museum closes because of chemicals in taxidermy collection

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This Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, 1:10 p.m. EDT satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Hilary, right, off Mexico’s Pacific coast. It grew rapidly to Category 4 strength and could reach Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years, causing “significant and rare impacts” including extensive flooding. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said a tropical storm watch has been issued for Southern California, the first time it has ever done that. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Hilary necessitates first-ever tropical storm watch for Southern California

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Evacuees from Yellowknife, territorial capital of the Northwest Territories, are greeted with the Aurora Borealis as they arrive to a free campsite provided by the community in High Level, Alta., Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

City empties as thousands flee wildfire closing in on capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories

By Tammy Webber and Jim Morris - Associated Press

A warning sign is displayed along Lahainaluna Road in Lahaina, Hawaii Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Hawaii's governor vowed to protect local landowners from being “victimized” by opportunistic buyers when Maui rebuilds from deadly wildfires that incinerated a historic island community and killed more than 100 people. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Emergency services chief on Maui resigns. He faced criticism for not activating sirens during fire

By Bobby Caina Calvan, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Christopher Weber - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, teachers clean classrooms at a school in the aftermath of flood waters from an overflowing river in Qizhongkou Town of Laishui County in north China's Hebei Province on Aug. 11, 2023. A vast swath of northeastern China is threatened by flooding as at least 90 rivers have risen above warning levels and 24 have already overflowed their banks. State media say crews are standing by to defend homes and farmland across the Songliao Basin north of Beijing which includes parts of four provinces and several major cities with a total population of almost 100 million. (Wang Kun/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi calls for measures to mitigate disastrous flooding amid economic slowdown

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Wildfire wreckage is shown Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Aerial footage shows devastation brought by wildfires in Hawaii

Wind turbines operate in Livermore, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Biden, on his three-state western swing this past week, emphasized to donors and voters how the Inflation Reduction Act addresses climate change and promotes the creation of jobs as the economy moves toward renewable energy. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

Young conservatives take climate activism to GOP presidential debate

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Canadian Armed Forces soldiers construct a firebreak in Parker Recreation Field in Yellowknife to help fight wildfires on Wednesday, Aug.16, 2023. (Master Cpl. Alana Morin/Canadian Armed Forces via The Canadian Press via AP)

Residents flee, airlifts begin as wildfire approaches capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories

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Homes consumed in recent wildfires are seen in Lahaina, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. The wildfires have devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Hawaii is vowing to protect landowners on Maui from being pressured to sell after wildfires

By Bobby Caina Calvan, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Christopher Weber - Associated Press