LOS ANGELES (AP) — When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise:

Say "bank run" and many people conjure black-and-white photos from the 1930s — throngs of angry depo

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DENVER (AP) — A Colorado police officer accused of putting a handcuffed woman in a parked police car

Eight years ago, Whatcom County, on the northwest coast of Washington State, seemed destined to beco

Today is an uncomfortable anniversary for the nuclear industry and for people who believe that nucle

Members of two of the Environmental Protection Agency's most influential advisory committees, tasked

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For years, beavers have been treated as an annoyance for chewing down trees and shrubs and blocking

NEW YORK (AP) — The December holidaysare supposed to be a time of joyful celebration, but the season

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The Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu has called for the Hague-based International Court of Justice t