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Triceratops skull, skeleton dug up in Colorado

The bones and skull of a triceratops were found last Friday in Thornton at the construction site of a new…

August 30, 2017

25 years after Ruby Ridge standoff, radical movement grows

The gunfight at Ruby Ridge occurred when agents approached Randy Weaver’s property near the Canadian border looking for a place…

August 30, 2017

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Flood insurance policies plunge in Houston in past 5 years

In this photo provided by Jiles Daniels, his flooded home near Cleveland, Texas, northeast of Houston. Daniels, a retired oil…

August 30, 2017

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Officials take stock of national trail uniting 3 countries

A sign at the Silver City Visitors Center declares the town a Continental Divide Trail Community in Silver City, N.M.…

August 30, 2017

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Harvey shows how planetary winds are shifting to create bigger disasters

Two people walk down a flooded section of Interstate 610 in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday in Houston,…

August 30, 2017

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Trump: ‘All options are on table’ after North Korea launch

In a terse, written statement, Trump said that North Korea’s missile launch “signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all…

August 29, 2017

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Business leaders want Mexican wolves in Grand Canyon area

The business leaders are submitting their request in a joint letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The federal…

August 29, 2017

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Houston gets a small break from rain as Trump heads to Texas

The forecast Houston is getting a bit of a break from the relentless rain. Forecasts call for only 2 to…

August 29, 2017

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Scientists say warming makes storms, like Harvey, wetter

Volunteer rescue boats make their way into a flooded subdivision to rescue stranded residents as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey…

August 29, 2017

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Already-pardoned Arpaio asks judge to undo conviction

The former Arizona sheriff struck a defiant tone in insisting he “didn’t do anything wrong” and questioning whether his judge…

August 28, 2017

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North Korea fires missile over Japan in aggressive test

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled around 1677 miles and reached a maximum height of 341 miles…

August 28, 2017

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More chaos in Houston as floodwaters rise to roof lines

The nation’s fourth-largest city was still largely paralyzed, and there was no relief in sight from the storm that spun…

August 28, 2017

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Kenya bans plastic bags, may fine violators up to $38,000

The ban applies to the use, manufacture, and importation of plastic shopping bags and gives a minimum fine of about…

August 28, 2017

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Tense, peaceful exchanges among Berkeley rallies protesters

Police set up barricades around a city park where the right-wing rally billed “No to Marxism in America” and a…

August 27, 2017

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Rescuers pluck hundreds from rising floodwaters in Houston

The incessant rain covered much of Houston in turbid, gray-green water and turned streets into rivers navigable only by boat.…

August 27, 2017

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Harvey rolls over Texas coast, smashes homes and businesses

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where…

August 26, 2017

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Texas mayor says Harvey devastated his city

Rockport Mayor Charles “C.J.” Wax told The Weather Channel on Saturday that some homes and businesses were heavily damaged or…

August 26, 2017

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Palace suspect drove at U.K. police, went for 4-foot sword

A police cordon outside Buckingham Palace where a man was arrested after an incident in London on Friday. A man…

August 26, 2017

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Trump setting records for low presidential approval

President Donald Trump came into office as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling. Things have…

August 25, 2017

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Hurricane Harvey has Texas in crosshairs

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the monster system would be “a very major disaster,” and the forecasts drew fearful…

August 25, 2017

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Police boost patrols around home of Powerball winner

Mavis Wanczyk, a hospital worker from the western Massachusetts town of Chicopee, was announced Thursday as the winner of the…

August 25, 2017

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Trump administration imposes sweeping sanctions on Venezuela

The sanctions Trump signed by executive order prohibit financial institutions from providing new money to the government or state oil…

August 25, 2017

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Hiker tells harrowing tale of being struck by lightning

The 31-year-old Austrian teacher, an avid hiker, had just reached the 9,000-foot summit of a Northern California mountain range ahead…

August 25, 2017

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Harvey close to major hurricane strength as refineries shut

Evacuations begin across southern Texas

August 25, 2017