Scientists determine the Great Lakes are nonrenewable

The Great Lakes hold about 21 percent of the planet's surface fresh water, yet less than one percent of that volume renews each year. That second number, not the first, sets the limits on everyone who...

earth.com

Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations

The rapid drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve could damage the caverns that store the oil, experts warn.

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Washington Law Says to Alert the Public When Doctors Are Accused of Misconduct. It Can Take Months.

In the case of Mark Mulholland, who was repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct, the board waited six weeks to announce that it had filed charges. He was allowed to keep seeing patients during that ti...

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Trump calls mail votes 'cheating' — as he quietly mails in his own ballot again

President Trump voted by mail in Florida's primary elections this week, just weeks after branding the very same practice "cheating" and while his administration fights in the Supreme Court to gut mail-in voting access nationwide.Palm Beach County records show Trump requested an absentee ballot for F...

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Part of a key firearms law lapsed following a federal court decision. What happens now?

A federal judge's decision in Texas has major implications for the National Firearms Act. What does this mean for certain guns and other weapons?

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dataindex.us | dataindex.us

Monitor U.S. federal datasets, surveys, and data changes in real time. Stay informed on risks, updates, and public data transparency. Learn about events related to federal data health. Learn more abou...

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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

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California bans paraquat, highly toxic herbicide outlawed in more than 70 countries

State is US’s largest user of pesticide that is virtually proven to cause Parkinson’s disease

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Video: How Japan Averted a Major Earthquake Disaster

Japan avoided a major disaster after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit last month. Our reporter River Akira Davis visited Kumamoto, a prefecture near the epicenter, to see how it built quake-proof buildi...

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WSJ torches Trump's 'act of appeasement' toward dictator: 'The world is wondering'

President Donald Trump got a fresh tongue-lashing from the Wall Street Journal editorial board for his latest "act of appeasement" against North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.The president plans to significantly cut back on military exercises with South Korea — a vital part of regional security strate...

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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.

Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...

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Trump admin's $1 billion election ultimatum immediately sparks new legal war

The Department of Homeland Security was dragged into federal court this week after threatening to withhold $1 billion in anti-terrorism funding for several states if they don't change election rules.In Nashville vs. DHS, a bombshell federal lawsuit filed Monday by the Brennan Center and co-counsel o...

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How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Health

Scientists have found that people are being exposed to more toxins than previously known.

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Cyclists criticise ‘catastrophic’ safety measures after Finlay Tarling’s death

The riders’ union, the CPA, is ‘furious’ with safety measures on Tour, two days after the death of Finlay Tarling following a collision at the Volta a Portugal

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Opinion | Trump is corruptly turning the White House into his billion dollar dream home

A new estimate puts the White House’s total remodeling efforts at over $900 million, with taxpayers bearing the brunt for at least half that price tag.

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This law has the teeth to jail Trump — and he's desperate to defang it

Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of their felonious lives.This month, we learned that Capital One Bank closed more than 300 Trump Organization accounts back in 2021 because, they s...

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Opinion | When America’s budget will break, disastrously

It's not too late to avoid a U.S. fiscal cliff catastrophe.

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How $600B of Biden’s clean energy funding escaped Trump’s cuts

A POLITICO analysis finds that while the administration wiped out hundreds of billions in clean-energy tax breaks, spending has been harder to unwind.

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Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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