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This satellite image made available by NOAA shows Hurricane Kay off the Pacific coast of Mexico, early Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Kay’s maximum sustained winds rose to 100 mph Wednesday, with forecasters saying it could brush the mid portion of the peninsula this week. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Kay set to brush Mexico’s Baja peninsula

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New British Prime Minister Liz Truss makes an address outside Downing Street in London Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, after returning from Balmoral in Scotland where she was formally appointed by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Truss says her government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease the cost-of-living crisis. Truss told lawmakers Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, that the two-year “energy price guarantee” means average household bills will be no more than 2,500 pounds ($2,872) a year for heating and electricity. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

U.K. government to cap domestic energy prices, Truss announces

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth, according to NASA. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via AP) **FILE**

Scientists announce they have found exoplanet possibly capable of supporting life

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Lobster fishermen are already at work as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2022, off of Kennebunkport, Maine. (AP Phot6o/Robert F. Bukaty)

Retailers pull lobster from menus after ‘red list’ warning

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

New York City subway passengers wear protective masks due to COVID-19 concerns, Aug. 17, 2020. New York state is dropping its mask requirement on public transportation thanks in part to the availability of new booster shots targeting the most common strain of COVID-19, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

New York Gov. Hochul announces end of public-transit mask mandate

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

CO2 not the evil we think

Windmills and solar panels are shown in Kahuku, Hawaii on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. As Hawaii transitions toward its goal of achieving 100% renewable energy by 2045, the state's last coal-fired power plant closed this week ahead of a state law that bans the use of coal as a source of electricity beginning in 2023. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Lawmakers sound alarm about taxpayer dollars going to Chinese solar panels made with slave labor

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

A man walks over debris of a psychiatric hospital that was heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ukraine energy chief: Russia trying to ‘steal’ nuclear plant

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

In this May 10, 2020 file photo, a shopper pushes his cart past a display of packaged meat in a grocery store in southeast Denver. Prices at the wholesale level fell from June to July, the first month-to-month drop in more than two years and a sign that some of the U.S. economy's inflationary pressures cooled last month. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.5% in July. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Dutch city’s looming ban on meat advertisements is world’s first

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

California Vehicle Choices Conundrum Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

California decides what cars and trucks Americans can buy

By Michael McKenna

Illustration on problems in California by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

California green dream could become a nightmare

By Cal Thomas

A Ukrainian soldier fires on the front line in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sat. Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)

Fears grow for Ukraine nuke plant ahead of inspector report

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

A Russian serviceman guards in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 1, 2022. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the sprawling plant in southern Ukraine on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022 The IAEA’s Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi highlighted the risks they had to deploy a team in the area amidst the war. (AP Photo, File)

‘Playing with fire’: U.N. inspectors express fears for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant caught in war zone

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers transfer survivors across a river following an earthquake in Moxi Town of Luding County, southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Dozens people were reported killed and missing in an earthquake that shook China's southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a COVID-19 lockdown. (Cheng Xueli/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Chengdu enforces strict lockdown despite earthquake

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This 2020 photo provided by the British Antarctic Survey shows the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica. Starting Thursday, Jan. 6, 2021, a team of scientists are sailing to the massive but melting Thwaites glacier, “the place in the world that’s the hardest to get to,” so they can better figure out how much and how fast seas will rise because of global warming eating away at Antarctica’s ice. (David Vaughan/British Antarctic Survey via AP)

Antarctic ‘Doomsday Glacier’ at risk of receding faster than previously feared

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A man walks over the debris of a house that was heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

What’s happening with Ukraine’s threatened nuclear plant

Associated Press

Smoke rises from the nuclear power plant of Nerckarwestheim in Neckarwestheim, Germany, on Aug. 22, 2022. Europe is staring an energy crisis in the face. The cause: Russia throttling back supplies of natural gas. European officials say it's a pressure game over their support for Ukraine after Russia's invasion. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Europe struggles with crisis as Russia cuts gas

By David McHugh - Associated Press

Climate Crisis Hoax Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The ignorant mob’s climate crisis is a hoax

By David Deming

One of Pacific Gas &amp; Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif., is viewed Nov. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

Democrats, environmentalists warm to nuclear power for quicker transition to a green energy future

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Waves hit a shore in Pohang, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate in South Korea as Typhoon Hinnamnor made landfall in the country's southern regions on Tuesday, unleashing fierce rains and winds that destroyed trees and roads, and left more than 20,000 homes without power. (Kim Hyun-tai/Yonhap via AP)

Typhoon batters South Korea; preparations minimize casualties

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press