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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Three climbers on Alaska’s Mount McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America’s tallest peak have died, a Latvian mountaineering group announced Friday. A fourth climber was rescued. The four were members of a Latvian mountaineering expedition, the group said. They were part of a seven-person team traversing a …
May 30 (Reuters) – Zambia has investigated and cleared two suspected cases of Ebola as it steps up screening and surveillance for the deadly viral disease following an outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Congolese authorities said on Friday suspected cases from the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is no vaccine, …
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don’t have the documents to prove it. The case was seen as the first major legal test of an election reform that has been pushed nationally by …
MOSCOW, May 30 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones struck a tanker at Russia’s port of Taganrog overnight and hit an oil depot in the city of Armavir, authorities in the southern regions of Rostov and Krasnodar said on Saturday. Rostov region Governor Yury Slyusar said on Telegram that fires on the tanker and in the port …
BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers in Laos Saturday worked to safely free the villagers found alive in a flooded cave after being trapped there for 10 days, a day after the first of the five survivors was safely evacuated. Rescuers hope to extract the remaining four men later Saturday after saying they were not ready …
Larry Veray had a plan to bring cheaper, cleaner energy to his townhome complex in Pearl City at no cost to residents. As president of the Waiau Gardens Kai B homeowners’ association, Veray prides himself on keeping association fees low while building reserve funds, and he wasn’t about to ask homeowners to bear the cost …
NEW YORK (AP) — The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 11 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released this week. The preliminary findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were based on survey responses from more than …
A proposed pumped-water electricity storage facility at Seminoe Reservoir could decimate the prized Miracle Mile trout fishery on the North Platte River and jeopardize a bighorn sheep herd that wildlife officials rely on to support the species’ populations in other areas, critics of the $4 billion project say. Anglers, business owners and wildlife biologists joined …
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey state police set up designated protest zones and vehicle checkpoints outside an immigration detention center in Newark on Friday, relieving federal immigration enforcement agents who have been clashing with protesters for days. Gov. Mikie Sherrill said she sent in state police to bring order outside Delaney Hall as the …
