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Residents in the North Canton Circle neighborhood of Jackson, Miss., on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, were advised to evacuate from impending floodwaters. Some moved out all of their possessions in U-Haul trucks or cars. (AP Photo/Michael Goldberg)

Flooding exacerbates water crisis in Mississippi capital

By Emily Wagster Pettus and Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

Homes are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur city, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. Disaster officials say nearly a half million people in Pakistan are crowded into camps after losing their homes in widespread flooding caused by unprecedented monsoon rains in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Zahid Hussain)

U.N. to seek $160 million in emergency aid for Pakistan floods

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows bush fires outside of the main power plant facilities at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Russian occupied Ukraine, Monday Aug. 29, 2022. A team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Monday started its journey to the Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited mission to inspect crucial safety systems that the world hopes will help avoid a catastrophe. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

U.N. inspectors heading to troubled nuke plant in Ukraine controlled by Russia

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This 2011 video frame released by Brazil's National Indian Foundation and published in late July shows an uncontacted indigenous man amid the forest in Rondonia, Brazil. No one knows his name or the name of the people he came from, and he appears to have lived alone in Brazil's Amazon for 22 years. Video footage released for this first time this week by Brazil's Indian Foundation showed rare images of a so-called uncontacted indigenous man who is believed to be the last surviving member of his tribe. A team that tracks him last saw evidence he was alive in May 2018. (Brazil's National Indian Foundation via AP)

Indigenous man isolated from modern life found dead in his Brazilian hut

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

An evangelical prays during a Mass at a church in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) ** FILE **

Donate, advocate, pray for ‘creation care,’ evangelical group says in new report

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

This composite of satellite images taken by Planet Labs PBC shows smoke rising from fires at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. A team from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine soon but more shelling was reported in the area overnight Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

U.N. agency to inspect Ukraine nuclear plant in urgent mission

By Paul Byrne - Associated Press

High costs of Biden's energy policies illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Biden’s energy policies carry high costs

By Paul Driessen

The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 14, 2022. The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of other issues, including a case involving nuclear waste storage and a proposal requiring companies to disclose how climate risk affects their businesses, advocates across the political spectrum say. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court climate ruling could impact nuclear waste case

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Frontier constabularies load food to a helicopter for flood-affected people, in Swat valley, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. International aid for flood victims has started arriving in Pakistan, as military helicopters, troops and rescuers evacuated marooned people and delivered food after a summer deluge killed over 1,000, authorities said Monday.(AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

Pakistan floods leave wrecked lives, half million in camps

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Monique An charges her Tesla car to a wall connector charger while posing for photos at her home in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. California is poised to required 100% of new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to be powered by electricity or hydrogen by 2035. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Glenn Youngkin rips California law banning new gas-powered cars, vows Virginia won’t follow suit

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Drivers for an oil delivery company fill their trucks at the Sprague terminal, on Jan. 16, 2014, in South Portland, Maine. Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Low fuel inventories cause special concern in U.S. Northeast

By David Sharp - Associated Press

This photo taken by Talent, Ore., resident Kevin Jantzer shows the destruction of his hometown as wildfires ravaged the central Oregon town near Medford on Sept. 8, 2020. A new map in Oregon that rated the wildfire risk of every tax lot in the state, labeling nearly 80,000 properties as high-risk, generated so much pushback from angry homeowners that officials abruptly retracted it, saying they had not done enough local outreach before publicizing the ambitious project. (Kevin Jantzer via AP, File)

Oregon wildfire grows rapidly, destroys several structures

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A view of a crater from a night Russian rocket attack, near to damaged buildings in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Cities near Ukrainian nuclear plant shelled

By Yesica Fisch - Associated Press

Davyd kisses his girlfriend Olha, after meeting again following a wartime separation of more than three months, at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine, Russia trade more blame on threats to nuclear plant

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Thursday, July 28, 2022. The fair, also known as Mississippi's Giant House Party, is an annual event of agricultural, political, and social entertainment at what might be the country's largest campground fair. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Reeves declares emergency ahead of expected flooding

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Large Icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, Aug. 16, 2019. The Biden administration said Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, that it will upgrade its engagement with the Arctic Council and countries with an interest in a region that's rapidly changing due to climate change. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) **FILE**

Biden to create Arctic ambassador position to shore up competition with China and Russia

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Demian Ebert, the Klamath program manager for PacifiCorp, looks at a tank holding juvenile chinook salmon being raised at the Iron Gate Hatchery at the base of the Iron Gate Dam on March 3, 2020, near Hornbrook, Calif. Federal regulators on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, issued a final environmental impact statement that supports the demolition of four massive dams on Northern California's Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File) **FILE**

Plan to demolish Klamath dams in California to save salmon gets boost from federal regulators

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - USDA wildlife specialist Will Guigou, right, and pilot Thomas Taylor prepare to distribute packets of baited rabies vaccine by helicopter from a container between Guigou's knees Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport's Lovell Field in Chattanooga, Tenn. The U.S. government has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama. The major aim is to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn't been found or isn't widespread, said field trial coordinator Jordona Kirby. ( Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

USDA scattering rabies vaccines for wildlife in 13 states

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, right, locks arms with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Honiara, Solomon Islands on May 26, 2022. A U.S. coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call in the Solomon Islands, according to reports, an incident that comes amid growing concerns of Chinese influence on the Pacific nation. (Xinhua via AP, File)

Report: U.S. Coast Guard ship denied port call in Solomons

By David Rising - Associated Press

In this file photo, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during a news conference in Richmond, Va., Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

GOP leaders vow to untie Virginia from California’s vehicle rules

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press