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January 10, 2023
U.S. soldiers attend the activation ceremony for the United States Space Forces Korea in Pyeongtaek, South Korea Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.
U.S. Military Creates Space Unit in S. Korea to Watch North
December 14, 2022
Dust flies as a farmer plows over a failed cotton field, Oct. 4, 2022, Halfway, Texas.
Rural Voters 'in the Trenches' on Climate
December 12, 2022
It shows that the United States and Russia have enough fossil fuel reserves to exhaust the world’s remaining carbon budget to stay under 1.5 degrees Celsius warming.
First Public Global Database of Fossil Fuels Launches
September 19, 2022
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Dredge Jadwin, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging vessel, powers south down the Mississippi River Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, past Commerce, Mo. Amid a major drought in the Western U.S., a proposed solution comes up repeatedly: large-scale river diversions, including pumping Mississippi River water to parched states.
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Pumping Mississippi River Water West a Potential Drought Solution
California Assembly member Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, a Democrat from Winters, California, speaks during a rally at the California Capitol on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, in Sacramento, Calif. Aguiar-Curry has introduced a bill that would require human drivers to be present for self-driving semitrucks.
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Self-Driving Semis Focus of California Rules, Legislation
Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte, left, speaks with U.S. President Joe Biden during a round table meeting at a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, June 29, 2022.
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Dutch, Japanese Join U.S. Limits on Chip Tech to China
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January 10, 2023
In this Friday, June 25, 2021, file photo, rescue personnel work in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo, in Surfside, Fla. Even as the search continues over a week later for signs of life in the mangled debris of the fallen Champlain Towers South, the process of seeking answers about why it happened and who is to blame is already underway in Florida's legal system.
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Building Collapse Lawsuits Seek to Get Answers, Assign Blame
At least five lawsuits have been filed on behalf of residents who survived or are feared dead.
July 6, 2021
Workers search in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo, Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. One hundred fifty-nine people were still unaccounted for two days after Thursday's collapse, which killed at least four.
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Engineers: Building Needed $9M+ in Repairs Before Collapse
There were several major repairs that needed to be done as soon as possible.
June 28, 2021
In this April 24, 2019, photo, American Airlines aircraft are shown parked at their gates at Miami International Airport in Miami. A veteran airline mechanic has been sentenced to three years in prison for sabotaging an American Airlines jetliner in Miami with 150 people aboard. The lawyer for 60-year-old Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani said at a hearing Wednesday, March 4, 2020, that the mechanic's sole motive in July was to earn overtime fixing the plane.
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Mechanic Gets 3 Years for Sabotaging Jetliner
He was trying to get overtime fixing the plane.
March 4, 2020
A former American Airlines mechanic who prosecutors say may have some links to terrorists is due to enter a plea to charges that he sabotaged an aircraft with 150 people aboard.
Safety
Man to Enter Plea Over Plane Sabotage
He was upset an ongoing labor dispute was denying him overtime work.
September 20, 2019
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks about the need to lower prescription costs by importing drugs from other countries, Tuesday, June 11, 2019, at the Eisenhower Recreation Center in The Villages, Fla. Listening at right is state Sen. Aaron Bean.
Supply Chain
FL Gov. Approves Plan to Import Drugs
U.S. residents pay up to 174% more for the same prescription drugs than other developed countries.
June 12, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks during a event on medical billing, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Washington.
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Trump Backs Plan to Import Meds
The bill overcame stiff opposition from pharmaceutical companies who claimed importing drugs would lead to risks of counterfeit substances.
May 10, 2019
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Bill Making Hemp Florida Crop
Republican senator says, 'We want to be a leader in hemp, rather than a follower.'
March 26, 2019
This May 11, 2016, file photo shows an area of the Herbalife corporate office in Los Angeles. Some distributors who claim they were duped by Herbalife’s promises they’d get rich selling health and personal care products are suing the company for as much as $1 billion in damages.
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Herbalife Distributors Say Events Were a Sham
The class-action case could involve more than 100,000 plaintiffs and mean as much as $1 billion in damages.
August 23, 2018
This undated photo shows Tania Julin, whose husband was kidnapped about 15 miles from the Colombian border. The families of six Americans kidnapped and killed in Colombia by the terrorist organization known as FARC are seeking damages from banana giant Chiquita Brands International.
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Chiquita Sued Over American Deaths in Colombia
The families of Americans kidnapped and killed by a terrorist organization are seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages.
February 5, 2018
This undated photo shows Spencer Silver, left and Art Fry, right, holding a Post-It Note pad. Alan Amron, an inventor with 40 patents, claims that he invented what he called the Press-On Memo in 1973, a year before Fry and Silver, 3M scientists, developed what later became known as the Post-It Note. Amron is suing 3M for $400 million in damages.
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Alleged Post-It Inventor Sues 3M
Meanwhile, 3M insists it developed Post-it Notes without any input or inspiration from the plaintiff, "and it is false and misleading for him to state or suggest that he created, invented, or had any role in the product's development."
March 11, 2016