New research has found clues into a mysterious fossil site in Nevada, which may have been an ancient maternity ward for giant marine reptiles. The site is home to bones from dozens of ichthyosaurs …
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By MADDIE BURAKOFF
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12/19/22
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Scientists say the atmospheric carbon overload responsible for global warming might also be making large lakes more acidic. It's happening in oceans, which are taking in some of the carbon dioxide …
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By JOHN FLESHER
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12/19/22
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Sam Bankman-Fried is in a courthouse in the Bahamas where he is expected to tell a judge he will not fight extradition to the U.S., where he faces multiple criminal and civil charges related to the …
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12/19/22
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Stellantis and U.S. safety regulators have confirmed that an exploding Takata air bag inflator has killed another driver. The company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reiterated …
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By TOM KRISHER
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12/19/22
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A boy from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians has inspired his community to try to boost organ donor numbers. Greyson Parisien's journey to correct a heart defect led the tribe to add the …
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By FELICIA FONSECA
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12/19/22
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President Joe Biden's administration is making a new push to reduce homelessness as a federal survey confirms something that's obvious to people in many cities: The problem is not waning. The …
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By JANIE HAR and GEOFF MULVIHILL
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12/19/22
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A man convicted in the killings of eight people from another southern Ohio family faces the possibility of life in prison without parole when he’s sentenced. A judge may hear Monday from relatives …
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12/19/22
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told NBC's “Meet the Press” that her administration will start moving homeless people off streets and into motel rooms through a new program that launches Tuesday. …
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12/18/22
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President Joe Biden and his family held a private memorial service Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and their baby daughter. Biden, who had just been …
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By COLLEEN LONG
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12/18/22
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The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz has become the latest journalist to be banned from Twitter. Lorenz says she and another Post technology reporter, Drew Harwell, were researching an article …
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By BRIAN P. D. HANNON
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12/18/22
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There were signs that negotiators were closing in on a deal at a U.N. conference that would protect nature and provide financing to set up protected areas and restore degraded ecosystems. China, …
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By MICHAEL CASEY
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12/18/22
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The crew of the International Space Station is inspecting an attached Russian space capsule that may have been damaged by a micrometeorite. Russia’s space corporation says the crew on Sunday is …
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12/18/22
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The mayor of a Texas border city has declared a state of emergency over concerns about the community’s ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border. The El Paso …
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12/18/22
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Negotiators at a United Nations conference have yet to resolve how to protect biodiversity and provide funding to poor countries as talks reach their their final stages. Delegates from about 190 …
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By MICHAEL CASEY
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12/17/22
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P-22, the celebrated mountain lion that took up residence in the middle of Los Angeles and became a symbol of urban pressures on wildlife, has been euthanized. Fish and wildlife officials said …
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CHRISTOPHER WEBER
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12/17/22
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Associated Press photographers talk about their 2022 assignments, and share some of the stories behind the images.
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THE PLACE: Kherson, Ukraine
THE STORY: Residents face new reality in …
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By The Associated Press
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12/17/22
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The University of California has reached an agreement with some 36,000 graduate student teaching assistants and other academic workers for increased pay and benefits that could potentially end a …
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By JULIE WATSON and STEFANIE DAZIO
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12/16/22
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Officials now say that a Mississippi police officer shot and killed a woman even as the woman was fatally shooting the officer and his partner in the parking lot of a Gulf Coast motel on Wednesday. …
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12/16/22
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A Tennessee judge is promising to rule quickly on whether to grant public access to records detailing the treatment of a death row prisoner who cut off his penis while on a suicide watch. In a …
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By TRAVIS LOLLER
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12/16/22
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Prosecutors say the father of an Illinois man charged with killing seven people in a mass shooting at a July 4 parade has been charged with seven felony counts of reckless conduct. Lake County …
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By KATHLEEN FOODY and MICHAEL TARM
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12/16/22
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