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Shale study's lead author faces 'green' backlash

Faced with mounting criticism, the State University of New York at Buffalo is distancing itself from a Marcellus Shale gas-drilling study released earlier this month by the school's own Shale Resources and Society Institute.

But the report's lead author is defending the work by the fledgling institute, saying Monday that ...

Michigan wildfire destroys nearly 100 buildings

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) -- Homes and cabins make up a third of the nearly 100 structures destroyed by a wildfire burning across more than 30 square miles of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, officials said Monday....
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Michigan wildfire destroys nearly 100 buildings

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) -- Homes and cabins make up a third of the nearly 100 structures destroyed by a wildfire burning across more than 30 square miles of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, officials said Monday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Michigan wildfire destroys nearly 100 buildings

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) -- Homes and cabins make up a third of the nearly 100 structures destroyed by a wildfire burning across more than 30 square miles of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, officials said Monday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Michigan wildfire destroys nearly 100 buildings

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) -- Homes and cabins make up a third of the nearly 100 structures destroyed by a wildfire burning across more than 30 square miles of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, officials said Monday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Care funding gap 'can be plugged'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
The funding gap for reforming social care in England could be plugged by raiding the NHS surplus or restricting access to benefits such as the winter fuel allowance, experts say.
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Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
MIAMI (AP) -- A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop....
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Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
MIAMI (AP) -- A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
MIAMI (AP) -- A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
MIAMI (AP) -- A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
MIAMI (AP) -- A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
MIAMI (AP) -- A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Qatar says 13 children among dead in mall fire

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Qatar's Interior Ministry said 13 children were among 19 people killed in a fire that broke out in one of the country's fanciest shopping malls late Monday morning, raising questions about building safety in the booming Gulf state....

Qatar says 13 children among dead in mall fire

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Qatar's Interior Ministry said 13 children were among 19 people killed in a fire that broke out in one of the country's fanciest shopping malls late Monday morning, raising questions about building safety in the booming Gulf state....

New Zealand triplets likely among Qatar mall dead

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Young New Zealand triplets are believed to be among the 13 children killed in a fire in a shopping mall in Qatar....

New Zealand triplets likely among Qatar mall dead

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Young New Zealand triplets are believed to be among the 13 children killed in a fire in a shopping mall in Qatar....

VIDEO: Is it possible to live on mobile money?

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-06-09 20:44
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones tries to live without cash for a few days using just mobile phone payment applications instead.
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Smog a daunting hazard at Sequoia National Park

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural heartland to the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

The problem is there are few clear days, even ...

Smog a daunting hazard at Sequoia National Park

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural heartland to the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

The problem is there are few clear days, even ...

Group sees need for changes in remedial college classes

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular course work. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but ...

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