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Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residents
LOS ANGELES — In a plan that will reverberate more than 300 miles north at Mono Lake, Los Angeles city leaders have ... Read More
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This Day in History, November 1
On November 1st, 1870, the National Weather Service made its first official meteorological forecast.
Jamaica death toll at least 19 but expected to rise. US sending helicopters to help
At least 19 people have lost their lives in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa, which battered the island this week as the most powerful storm to ever hit the Caribbean nation.
Sen. Dana Morris Dixon, Jamaica’s information ...Read more
Rescues continue in Cuba, where flooding from Hurricane Melissa left many trapped
Rescue operations and urgent evacuations continued in Cuba on Friday, as people remained trapped by severe flooding left by the torrential rains from Hurricane Melissa on rural areas and towns across the affected provinces...Read more
Plan to kill 450,000 owls pushes past major obstacle with Republicans both for and against
LOS ANGELES — A controversial plan to kill one owl species to save another cleared a major hurdle.
The full Senate on Wednesday struck down a GOP effort to prevent the cull of up to 450,000 barred owls in the Pacific ...Read more
Today's Word "habitue"
habitue \huh-BICH-oo-ay; huh-bich-oo-AY\ (noun) - One who habitually frequents a place.
"In the public house kept by Jesper Darkes, 'zealous partizans in the cause of Liberty,' as one habitue called them, met day and ...Read more
Hidden Category
Remove a letter from each of the words below and rearrange the remaining letters to form new words. The 10 words will all fall into a certain category. For example, given the words DEAR, ANGRY, and RENEGE, you could drop the "A" in DEAR to get RED, drop the "N" in ANGRY to get GRAY, and drop an "E" in RENEGE to get GREEN. These would all fall into the category of "Colors".
If you're stuck, the hint will name the category. The tough part is ...
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After NASA pressure, SpaceX promises speedier timeline for Starship moon lander
ORLANDO, Fla. — After acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy this month called out SpaceX for Starship delays, Elon Musk’s company has come back with an update defending its progress and offering a speedier plan to get ...Read more
Satellite data reveals Hurricane Melissa damage in Jamaica
As Hurricane Melissa sweeps past Bermuda into the North Atlantic, new satellite data of Jamaica has revealed devastation for tourist center Montego Bay and much of the Western part of the country.
At least 40% of the ...Read more
Babies of 'one of Australia's rarest mammals' born in wild at park for first time
In a protected forest of eastern Australia, one of the country’s “rarest mammals” wandered past a trail camera, its pouch bulging slightly from the baby tucked inside. Conservationists later looked at the photos and ...Read more
Commentary: Can science and faith heal divisions, especially over vaccines? We have good news
We are a society in desperate need of healing; these days, we cannot even find agreement in diagnosis. Consider the issue of vaccination, which raises the specter of science in conflict with individual values and, ...Read more
Today's Word "concatenation"
concatenation \kon-kat-uh-NAY-shuhn; kuhn-\ (noun) - A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
"The process of fossilization and discovery...Read more
This Day in History, October 31
On October 31st, 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" was first published.
The Spookyville Potion Hunt
It is Halloween down in SpookyVille and the residents are getting ready to do their annual potion finding contest. In this contest, each of 5 people are assigned an ingredient of the special potion that they are to find. The first one back with their ingredient is the winner. With the clues listed can you figure out who, what kind of monster they are, which ingredient they were assigned, and how long it took them to find it?
Names: Mr. Jack,...
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Hurricane Melissa's death toll in Haiti climbs to 30; another 20 are missing
The death toll from Hurricane Melissa in Haiti continued to climb Thursday, with authorities saying that at least 30 people are now dead and 20 others are missing.
The biggest toll occurred in the country’s gang-ridden ...Read more
Senate passes measure to remove protections in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to cancel a Biden-era land-use plan that had boosted environmental protections for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a region that has drawn new interest from ...Read more
Hurricane Melissa aftermath: Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti facing economic losses, more hardship
Thousands of Jamaicans were still without power, water and internet service on Thursday as the government continued to assess the widespread damage from Hurricane Melissa.
Days after the hit from Jamaica’s most ...Read more
US ready to send humanitarian aid to Cuba after Hurricane Melissa devastation
The United States stands prepared to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to Cuba following the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Melissa, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday.
“We are prepared to offer ...Read more
Senate votes to vacate Biden rule on Alaska petroleum reserve
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday passed a joint resolution that would vacate a Biden-era Bureau of Land Management rule covering portions of northern Alaska.
The joint resolution passed 52-45, with Sen. John ...Read more
Hurricane Melissa wreaks $8 billion of damage, kills dozens
The devastation from Hurricane Melissa came into focus after the record-setting storm moved past Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba with at least 33 deaths and almost $8 billion of damage in its wake.
Across the Caribbean, the storm...Read more
When the federal shutdown closed this national park, rangers took to the classroom
ROSS, Calif. — On a sunny morning, 17 students from a preschool here in Marin huddle as close as possible to furloughed interpretive park ranger Adrian Boone of the Muir Woods National Monument.
But this is no field ...Read more
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