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Mystery Nevada fossil site could be ancient maternity ward

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 … more

By MADDIE BURAKOFF | 12/19/22

FILE - A young boy plays in the surf by the shore of Lake Ontario in Toronto on Jan. 21, 2021. Studies predict the Great Lakes and other large freshwater bodies around the world will move toward acidity as they absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which also causes climate change. Experts say acidification could disrupt aquatic food chains and habitat. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Scientists: Atmospheric carbon might turn lakes more acidic

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 … more

By JOHN FLESHER | 12/19/22

People wait outside the Magistrate Court building, where FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was expected to appear for an extradition hearing, in Nassau, Bahamas, early on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

FTX founder expected to drop fight against extradition to US

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 … more

Associated Press | 12/19/22

FILE - This June 25, 2017, photo shows TK Holdings Inc. headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich. 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 warnings to owners of 274,000 older Dodge and Chrysler vehicles to stop driving them until faulty inflators are replaced. Stellantis announced two deaths in November caused by the air bags and said it suspected an inflator caused another. The company formerly known as Fiat Chrysler confirmed the third death early Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Third air bag death confirmed, owners urged to get repairs

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 … more

By TOM KRISHER | 12/19/22

Micca Madalena, center, reads to his father, Darryl Madalena, left, and grandfather Myron Ami in his native language of Towa after getting home from school at Jemez Pueblo, N.M., Oct. 7, 2022. Darryl Madalena is advocating for more Native Americans to consider joining the organ donation rolls. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Boy who got new heart inspires tribe to boost organ donation

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 … more

By FELICIA FONSECA | 12/19/22

FILE - David Hernandez, a 62-year-old homeless man, crawls into his bed made with cardboard boxes in Los Angeles, late Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. President Joe Biden's Administration announced Monday, Dec. 19 it is ramping up efforts to help house people now sleeping on sidewalks, in tents and cars as a new federal report confirms what's obvious to people in many cities: Homelessness is persisting despite increased local efforts. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

US homeless numbers stay about the same as before pandemic

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 … more

By JANIE HAR and GEOFF MULVIHILL | 12/19/22

FILE - George Wagner IV, center, is escorted out of the courtroom after his arraignment on Nov. 28, 2018, at the Pike County Courthouse, in Waverly, Ohio. Walker, convicted in the killings of eight people from another southern Ohio family, faces the possibility of life in prison without parole when he is sentenced Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (Robert McGraw/The Chillicothe Gazette via AP, Pool, File)

Man to be sentenced in murders of 8 from another Ohio family

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 … more

12/19/22

FILE - New Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks during her inaugural address, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. The new mayor of Los Angeles, Bass, said Sunday, Dec. 18, her administration will start moving homeless people in tent encampments into hotel and motel rooms through a new program that launches Tuesday. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

LA taps hotel rooms as estimated 40,000 people live homeless

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. … more

12/18/22

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk between tombstones to attend Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the car crash that killed Biden's first wife Neilia Hunter Biden and 13-month-old daughter Naomi. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden marks 50th anniversary of death of wife, daughter

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 … more

By COLLEEN LONG | 12/18/22

Lorenz added to list of journalists banned from Twitter

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 … more

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON | 12/18/22

The head table gets set to open the high level segment at the COP15 biodiversity conference, in Montreal, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)

Governments move closer to deal at biodiversity conference

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, … more

By MICHAEL CASEY | 12/18/22

Space crew using robotic arm to inspect damaged capsule

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 … more

12/18/22

FILE - Migrants wait to get into a U.S. government bus after crossing the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. The mayor of the Texas border city declared a state of emergency Saturday, Dec. 17 over concerns about the community's ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border. El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser issued the state of emergency declaration to allow the city to tap into additional resources that are expected to become necessary after Title 42 expulsions end on Dec. 21. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

Texas mayor declares state of emergency over migrant swell

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 … more

12/18/22

Delegates arrive at the convention centre at the COP15 UN conference on biodiversity during a snowfall in Montreal, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (Paul Chiasson /The Canadian Press via AP)

Biodiversity talks in final days with many issues unresolved

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 … more

By MICHAEL CASEY | 12/17/22

FILE - This Nov. 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. National Park Service shows a mountain lion known as P-22, photographed in the Griffith Park area near downtown Los Angeles. 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, was euthanized after dangerous changes in his behavior led to examinations that revealed poor health and an injury likely caused by a car. (U.S. National Park Service, via AP, File)

Famed LA mountain lion euthanized following health problems

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 … more

CHRISTOPHER WEBER | 12/17/22

FILE - A resident wounded after a Russian attack lies inside an ambulance to be taken to a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, late Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Behind the Lens: The human toll in Ukraine's Kherson

Associated Press photographers talk about their 2022 assignments, and share some of the stories behind the images. ___ THE PLACE: Kherson, Ukraine THE STORY: Residents face new reality in … more

By The Associated Press | 12/17/22

University of California, workers reach deal to end strike

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 … more

By JULIE WATSON and STEFANIE DAZIO | 12/16/22

Members of the Bay St. Louis, Miss., community stand with candles during a vigil for Bay St. Louis police Sgt. Steven Robin and Officer Branden Estorffe at Tiger Stadium on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. Robin and Estorffe were killed the day before when a woman shot both of them. (Hannah Ruhoff/The Sun Herald via AP)

Mississippi officials: Woman and officer shot each other

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. … more

12/16/22

FILE - This booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows death row inmate Henry Hodges. The Associated Press has filed a motion seeking to protect public access to records detailing the treatment of Hodges, the Tennessee death row inmate who cut off his penis while on suicide watch. (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP, File)

Records access sought in case of inmate who severed penis

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 … more

By TRAVIS LOLLER | 12/16/22

FILE - Robert E. Crimo III's father Robert Crimo Jr., right, and mother Denise Pesina attend to a hearing for their son in Lake County court on Aug. 3, 2022, in Waukegan, Ill. Prosecutors announced Friday, Dec. 16, that Crimo Jr., the father of the Illinois man charged with killing seven people in a mass shooting at a July 4 parade in a Chicago suburb, has been charged with seven felony counts of reckless conduct. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, Pool, File)

Father of July 4 shooting suspect charged with 7 felonies

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 … more

By KATHLEEN FOODY and MICHAEL TARM | 12/16/22