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Month: June 2024

Flash flooding leaves campers stranded

WCCO, EMILY WEISE, YMCA STAFF, CNN By Allen Henry Click here for updates on this story     ELY, Minnesota (WCCO) — Heavy rainfall across the state on Tuesday night left hundreds of campers stranded at a northern Minnesota campground. Already busy with flood damage from this week’s downpour, crews in St. Louis County are preparing for

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Biden administration old-growth forest proposal doesn’t ban logging, but still angers industry

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include cutting trees to make forests less susceptible to wildfires, according to a U.S. government analysis obtained by The Associated Press. The analysis,

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Amtrak service resumes from Philadelphia to New Haven after power restored to train tracks

NEW YORK (AP) — Amtrak service has resumed from Philadelphia to New Haven, Connecticut, after power was restored to train tracks. The national rail service says riders should still expect significant residual delays during the Thursday evening rush hour commute. A circuit breaker malfunction was reported around 3 p.m., leading to a widespread power loss

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A Muslim mob in Pakistan torches a police station and lynches a man after accusing him of blasphemy

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan has lynched a man over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book, the Quran. The attackers on Thursday also torched the station in Madyan, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and burned police vehicles parked there. The local police said the slain man, Mohammad

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Biden administration bans Americans from using Russian-made cybersecurity software over national security concerns

By Zachary Cohen, Sean Lyngaas and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is taking the unprecedented step of banning US companies and citizens from using software made by a major Russian cybersecurity firm with a new prohibition on its sale because of national security concerns, Commerce Department Secretary Gina announced Thursday. The move uses relatively

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