Growing up in California, I watched the state pride itself on environmental leadership. Yet it has also become notorious for energy decisions that have driven some of the highest electricity prices in the nation, along with ongoing grid reliability concerns. Now, the state may finally be course-correcting on at least one mistake it should never have made: abandoning nuclear energy. A…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — The highs and lows from Kyren Paris’ season in 2025 would rival the most stomach-churning rollercoaster. Paris began the year as the Angels’ biggest surprise of the spring, and he ended it playing winter ball in Mexico to make up for the half-season lost to injury in a frustrating finish. “It was…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s top spokesman has reiterated that the military wants to use Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology in legal ways and will not let the company dictate any limits ahead of a Friday deadline to agree to its demands. Sean Parnell said Thursday on social media that the Pentagon “has no interest in…
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost transplants but also raises public confusion, researchers reported Thursday. What’s called donation after circulatory death,…
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By Alex Brown, Stateline.org The five East Coast offshore wind projects that recently won court victories over the Trump administration have restarted construction, but they make up just a small fraction of Atlantic states’ ambitious plans for offshore wind. And the dozens of projects that have yet to start construction have little chance of advancing…
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a preservationist group’s request to block the Trump administration from continuing construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that The National Trust for Historic Preservation was unlikely to succeed…
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Tiny shards of grill brush bristles have been the subject of myriad news articles, social media videos and community chatter. If consumed, the tiny bits of metal wreak havoc on the body. In one case, doctors searched for weeks to diagnose a man who suffered from extreme stomach pain, weight loss and other confounding health…
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Fullerton resident Roya Saberzadeh tells a frustrating tale of her emigration to the United States from her native Tehran in 1989. “It was after the war with Iraq,” she told me. “European countries wouldn’t let us in, and the U.S. wouldn’t give me a visa. We were all children of the revolution.” Her husband was…
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SeaWorld San Diego will add a concert series to the mix of global culinary dishes and cultural entertainment when the Seven Seas Food Fest returns to the marine animal park with more than 150 menu items and seven stages of live entertainment and music. The Seven Seas Food Festival will run on Fridays, Saturdays and…
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $100 million to settle allegations from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that the retailer caused its delivery drivers to lose tens of millions of dollars’ worth of earnings by deceiving them about their pay and tips they could make,…
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