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In this photo released by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft” in Sanskrit, lifts off from Sriharikota, India. The spacecraft blazed its way to the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface, the country's space agency said. A successful landing would make India the fourth country, after the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, to achieve the feat. (Indian Space Research Organisation via AP)

Crowds cheer as India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon’s south pole

By Aijaz Rahi and Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Members of the Last Generation protest group take part in a sit-in blockade at the Elbepark freeway exit, wearing masks with portraits of Chancellor Scholz, center, in Dresden, Germany, on July 14, 2023. (Robert Michael/dpa via AP)

German leader confident that a surging far-right party will shrink again before the next election

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Bette Zirkelbach, left, and Richie Moretti, right, watch as "Marcia," a juvenile green sea turtle, is released off the Florida Keys, Friday, July 14, 2023, at Sombrero Beach in Marathon, Fla. "Marcia," named by her rescuers after being found off Marathon suffering from positive buoyancy disorder, was rehabilitated at the Keys-based Turtle Hospital and was fitted with a satellite-tracking transmitter and released Friday to participate in the Tour de Turtles, an online educational tracking program coordinated by the Sea Turtle Conservancy. Beginning Aug. 1, the initiative is to follow 12 sea turtles for three months. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Rehabilitated sea turtle released in Florida Keys to join Tour de Turtles

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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, walks European Council President Charles Michel, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on arrival for an EU-Japan summit in Brussels, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU, Japan celebrate close cooperation with end of EU food restrictions in wake of Fukushima disaster

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U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the U.S. Consulate General after the G-7 ministers' meeting on climate, energy and environment in Sapporo, northern Japan, April 16, 2023. Kerry defended his negotiations with China, and angrily rebuffed what he called a “stupid” lie that he routinely travels by private jet, during a grilling by House Republicans on Thursday, July 13, before he sets out on his next climate mission to Beijing. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

John Kerry brawls with GOP over private jet use, office secrecy

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Bucket loaders clear mud from a road leading to downtown, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Montpelier, Vt. Following a storm that dumped nearly two months of rain in two days, Vermonters are cleaning up from the deluge of water. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Vermont braces for more rain in wake of historic flooding

By Kathy McCormack - Associated Press

People living along the banks of the river Yamuna sit at a flooded underpass in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Record monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people in northern India over two weeks

By Ashok Sharma and Rishi Lekhi - Associated Press

FILE - Heavy machinery is used to cut trees to widen an existing Central Maine Power power line corridor to make way for new utility poles, April 26, 2021, near Bingham, Maine. Developers of a project aimed at bringing hydropower from Canada to the New England power grid are trying to sort out how cost increases that occurred during lengthy litigation will be shared. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Hydropower transmission corridor to be renegotiated because of cost increases

By David Sharp and Steve LeBlanc - Associated Press

Tanya Trujillo, assistant secretary for water and science at the Department of the Interior, front, makes a point as U.S. Rep Diana DeGette, D-Colo., back left, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland look on during a news conference at the offices of Denver Water, July 22, 2021, in Denver. Trujillo, a key official overseeing Colorado River negotiations, will step down from her role with the Interior Department on Monday, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski,File)

Interior Department official with key role in Colorado River talks is stepping down

By Suman Naishadham and Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

Emergency personnel battle against a fire aboard the Italian-flagged Grande Costa d'Avorio cargo ship at the Port of Newark, Friday, July 7, 2023, in Newark, N.J. The cargo ship burned for a third day Friday at a New Jersey port after a fire that claimed the lives of two Newark firefighters Augusto "Augie" Acabou and Wayne "Bear" Brooks Jr. , and exposed gaps in the ability of fire crews to respond to emergencies on hulking container ships. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Fire that killed 2 on a cargo ship in New Jersey is out after nearly a week

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission building is shown in Washington on Aug. 5, 2017. (AP Andrew Harnik, File)

House GOP puts government-backed ESG investing in the spotlight, offers up bills to rein it in

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A no trespassing sign hangs on a fence around the West Lake Landfill Superfund site on Friday, April 21, 2023, in Bridgeton, Mo. Federal officials plan to remove some of the hazardous leached barium sulfate that is at the landfill and cap the rest. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Takeaways from AP’s examination of nuclear waste problems in the St. Louis region

By Michael Phillis and Jim Salter - Associated Press

Susie Gaffney poses for a photo along Coldwater Creek near where she used to live Friday, April 7, 2023, in Florissant, Mo. The creek was contaminated when nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project flowed into the waterway past homes, schools and businesses. St. Louis played an important role in the country’s effort to build the first nuclear weapon. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

How America’s push for the atomic bomb spawned enduring radioactive waste problems in St. Louis

By Michael Phillis and Jim Salter - Associated Press

Illustration on mankind's friend, carbon dioxide by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Carbon dioxide does not cause climate change

By James T. Moodey

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, right, and other activists attend a demonstration outside the European Parliament, Tuesday, July 11, 2023 in Strasbourg, eastern France. Protesters and legislators are converging on the European Union parliament in Strasbourg as the bloc faces a major vote on protecting its threatened nature and shielding it from disruptive environmental change. The vote is a test of the EU's global climate credentials. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

European Union lawmakers back a major plan to protect nature and fight climate change

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Republicans are for More American Energy Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Time for GOP presidential candidates to get serious about energy

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

A huge foundation for an offshore wind turbine, called a monopile, sits atop wheeled movers in Paulsboro, N.J., Thursday, July 6, 2023. A tangle of litigation is delaying the start of New Jersey's first offshore wind energy project, as developer Orsted is suing governments to stop delaying necessary permits, and citizens groups try to halt the project altogether. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Lawsuits could delay the start of New Jersey’s first offshore wind power project

By Wayne Parry - Associated Press

An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Company explains to the media about the facility to be used to release treated radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on June 26, 2023. Hong Kong's leader warned Tuesday, July 11, that the city will ban marine products from “a large number prefectures” if Japan discharges treated radioactive wastewater into the sea. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Ripples of Fukushima: Hong Kong to ban more Japanese products if radioactive water is released

By Kanis Leung - Associated Press

People stand on the Vilas Bridge, in Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Vt., to watch the water from the Connecticut River flow through on Monday, July 10, 2023. Heavy rain has washed out roads and forced evacuations in the Northeast, especially in Vermont and New York. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

Rain moving out after flooding hits Vermont hard, saturates other parts of the Northeast

By Lisa Rathke and John Minchillo - Associated Press

A bird flies with Mount Everest seen in the background from Namche Bajar, Solukhumbu district, Nepal, May 27, 2019. A helicopter flying out of the Mount Everest area in Nepal carrying foreign tourists was missing Tuesday and contact was lost with the aircraft. The helicopter was carrying five foreign tourists on a sightseeing tour to the world’s highest peak and was returning to the capital, Kathmandu, on Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

At least 5 dead after helicopter carrying foreign tourists crashes near Mount Everest in Nepal

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press