By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A renewable energy plant in Oregon that combines solar power, wind power and massive batteries to store the energy generated there officially …
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Fish fossil catch from China includes oldest teeth ever
By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got th…
Regrow vegetables from kitchen scraps on a sunny windowsill
By JESSICA DAMIANO Associated Press Gardening naturally lends itself to reusing and recycling — just think about compost and last year’s seed trays. So if there’s a way to reduce trash while sav…
Funds to aid Jackson’s water system held up as governor rose
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Years before people in Jackson were recently left without running water for several days, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves cla…
Floods trap many in Florida as Ian heads to South Carolina
By ADRIANA GOMEZ-LICON Associated Press PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through inundated streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped amid flooded homes and …
1/6 chairman: Ginni Thomas reiterates false election claims
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, stood by the false claim that the 2020 election was…
EXPLAINER: Rare sedition charge at center of Jan. 6 trial
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The founder of the Oath Keepers and four associates are on trial in the Capitol attack on charges that include seditio…
Civil rights law targets ‘cancer alley’ discrimination
By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press RESERVE, La. (AP) — Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last sev…
Bills would curtail objections at future Jan. 6 vote counts
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress have officially objected to the results in four of the last six presidential elections, a partisan practice that has been …
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ path: From Yale to jail
By JACQUES BILLEAUD and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers…