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Handout photo issued by Just Stop Oil of two protesters who have thrown tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, Friday Oct. 14, 2022. The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects, said activists dumped two cans of Heinz tomato soup over the oil painting on Friday. London’s Metropolitan Police said officers arrested two people on suspicion of criminal damage and aggravated trespass. (Just Stop Oil via AP)

Van Glue: Climate-change protesters vandalize famous ‘Sunflowers’ painting in London

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this undated photo released by the Placer County Sheriff's Office is Kiely Rodni. Authorities in Northern California are asking for the public's help in finding the 16-year-old girl who went missing after attending a party at a campground and may have been abducted. (Placer County Sheriff's Office via AP) **FILE**

No foul play in Kiely Rodni death, coroner says

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Tankers line up to refill Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in For-sur-Mer, southern France. French President Emmanuel Macron promised the situation in the country's gas stations will soon be back to "normal" as the government started requisitioning some workers at ExxonMobil's Esso gas stations amid an ongoing strike that is making life difficult for French drivers. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

France starts exporting gas to Germany amid energy crisis

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D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine speaks during a news conference in Washington, on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. The District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Thursday against Velsicol, claiming it violated the city's environmental laws by polluting a major waterway, the Anacostia River, and its surrounding environment for decades. (AP Photo/Drew Costley)

D.C. sues chemical manufacturer over pesticide pollution

By Drew Costley - Associated Press

President Joe Biden signs a proclamation to designate the first national monument of his administration at Camp Hale, a World War II-era training site, the Camp Hale - Continental Divide National Monument, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, in Camp Hale, Colo. The monument is to honor the 10th Mountain Division soldiers who trained there to fight in Italy in World War II. (Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily via AP)

Ute Indian Tribe criticizes Biden monument on ancestral land

By Brady McCombs - Associated Press

In this NASA false-color image, the blue and purple shows the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer over Antarctica on Oct. 5, 2022. It has generally been shrinking but grew to a moderately large size this year because of weather conditions. (NASA via AP)

Ozone hole grows this year, but still shrinking in general

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says Russia could increase gas supplies to Europe

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A string of dead pilot whales line the beach at Tupuangi Beach, Chatham Islands, in New Zealand's Chatham Archipelago, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand beaches over recent days, officials say. (Tamzin Henderson via AP)

477 whales die in ‘heartbreaking’ New Zealand strandings

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

The Epsilon-6 rocket blasts off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki town, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. The Japanese space agency said its rocket failed just after liftoff Wednesday and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command, in the country’s first failed rocket launch in nearly 20 years. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan space agency rocket carrying 8 satellites fails

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A tugboats get into position on the Russian pipe-laying vessel &quot;Fortuna&quot;, being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, in the port of Wismar, Germany, on Jan 14, 2021. European leaders are turning to Africa for more natural gas as the EU tries to replace Russian exports amid the war in Ukraine. (Jens Buettner/dpa via AP, File)

Europe turns to Africa in bid to replace Russian natural gas

By Krista Larson - Associated Press

In this image made from a NASA livestream and taken from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, asteroid Dimorphos is seen as the spacecraft flies toward it, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (ASI/NASA via AP)

Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike shifts its orbit

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This image captured by the United Arab Emirates' &quot;Amal&quot; (&quot;Hope&quot;) probe shows the planet Mars on Feb. 10, 2021. Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms. That's according to French scientists who published their findings Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. (Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center/UAE Space Agency, via AP, File)

Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this May 8, 2018, photo, a Jersey cow feeds in a field on the Francis Thicke organic dairy farm in Fairfield, Iowa. Small family operated organic dairy farms with cows freely grazing on verdant pastures are going out of business while large confined animal operations with thousands of animals lined up in assembly-line fashion are expanding. Many traditional small-scale organic farmers are fighting to stay in business by appealing to consumers to look closely at the organic milk they buy to make sure it comes from a farm that meets the idyllic expectations portrayed on the cartons. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

New Zealand proposes taxes on animal burping, peeing

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Traffic crawls along the Capital Beltway during rush hour, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Climate advocates shut down D.C. beltway inner loop

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Fishermen look at boats partially submerged in water after Hurricane Julia swept through the area in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua's central Caribbean coast and dumped torrential rains across Central America before reemerging over the Pacific as a tropical storm. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon)

19 dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

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Co owner of Building Resilient Solutions, Kerry Shackelford, right, gestures as he describes the process for testing wood along with Paige Pollard, left, at their lab Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, in Suffolk, Va. Whenever historic homes get flooded, building contractors often feel compelled by government regulations to rip out the water-logged wood flooring, tear down the old plaster walls and install new, flood-resistant materials. But Virginia restorers Paige Pollard and Kerry Shackelford say they can prove that historic building materials can often withstand repeated flooding. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Historic homes may prove to be more resilient against floods

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

This Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022 satellite image made available by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Julia, bottom right, at 4 p.m. EDT. Julia is gaining strength heading westward in the southern Caribbean, and authorities are preparing for a possible hurricane on Colombian islands and in Nicaragua. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Julia hits Nicaragua with torrential rainfall

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Abortion-rights activists demonstrate against the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade that established a constitutional right to abortion, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 30, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Democrats quietly kick climate change outcry to the curb to focus on abortion rhetoric

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A Russian serviceman guards an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022. Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source due to renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

U.N.: Ukraine nuclear power plant loses external power link

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A Chevrolet Volt hybrid car is seen charging at a ChargePoint charging station at a parking garage in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

First new cobalt mine in decades opens in Idaho; key component in electric vehicle batteries

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times