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Californians will soon be able to turn their remains into soil with human composting

By Zoe Sottile, CNN California has become the latest state to provide its residents with an eco-friendly, if unorthodox, option for their remains after death: composting. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law last Sunday, according to a news release from the bill’s author, state Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia. The process is officially called “natural

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Behind the blackout triggered by Hurricane Fiona is a long-embattled history of Puerto Rico’s weak and outdated electrical grid

By Emma Tucker, CNN Less than two weeks after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Puerto Rico, triggering an islandwide blackout for 1.5 million customers, power has been restored to 84% of residents, officials said. Fiona hit the US territory as a Category 1 storm September 18, dropping record rainfall, unleashing mudslides, flooding neighborhoods and leaving

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Cybercriminals behind Los Angeles Unified School District ransomware attack release hacked data, superintendent says

By Taylor Romine, Ray Sanchez and Raja Razek, CNN Cybercriminals who targeted the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the nation, with a ransomware attack have released some of the hacked data online, according to a tweet from LAUSD Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho. “Unfortunately, as expected, data was recently released by a

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Lack of flood disclosure laws is putting home buyers at risk as extreme storms become more frequent

By René Marsh, CNN It was a bright, sunny day, but Jackie Jones was still overwhelmed with anxiety at the prospect of rain. “It’s psychologically traumatic for me because I’m on constant alert — waiting, dreading the next rainfall,” Jones said. When the 59-year-old bought her southeast Georgia home four years ago, she had no

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Russian forces retreat from strategic Donetsk city a day after Moscow’s annexation of the region

By Kostan Nechyporenko and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Russian forces retreated from Lyman, a strategic city for its operations in the east, the Russian defense ministry said Saturday, just a day after Moscow’s annexation of the region that’s been declared illegal by the West. “In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, allied troops

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‘Predatory,’ widespread sexual harassment on Australia’s Antarctic research bases, report finds

By Martin Goillandeau and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Australian women working on research bases in Antarctica have been plagued by a widespread culture of sexual harassment, a recently released report found. The report, commissioned by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), notes that the women reported unwelcome requests for sex, inappropriate sexual comments and displays of offensive

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