Backers say the broadly supported Wyoming nuclear power plant will help reduce carbon emissions from burning coal, help fight against climate change.
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‘Stretched too thin’: With staff ‘exhausted,’ schools cancel class or return to remote learning
Experts worry many students will suffer if they miss classes, but say exhausted teachers need a break after helping families through the pandemic.
Hospitals face staffing shortages, employee clashes as COVID-19 vaccine mandate looms
Experts across the country worry that forcing the nation’s already-stressed hospitals to implement vaccine mandates may push needed workers to quit.
As Biden vaccine mandates loom, protests for personal freedoms swell. What happens next?
Experts say getting people vaccinated against COVID-19 should be a top priority. Is the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate the right way to do it?
As climate change deepens, Lake Mead and Lake Powell continue drying up
Experts say climate change is exacerbating Western drought, raising concerns about food prices, hydroelectric generation and mega wildfires.
‘Nothing you can do but wait’: In New Orleans, frustrations rise over Hurricane Ida outages; death toll rises
Hurricane Ida damaged or destroyed 30,679 poles, 36,469 spans of wire and 5,959 transformers, says Entergy, the power provider for New Orleans.
‘I can’t believe the numbers’: Mass shootings, homicide rates, gun sales hit highest levels since 1990s
Fatal shootings, mass shootings and homicide rates have skyrocketed this year amid economic woes and the pandemic.
In Colorado, Aurora police, medics indicted for 2019 death of Elijah McClain
Elijah McClain died after being injected with tranquilizer and choking on his vomit crying “can’t breathe.”
Hurricane Ida rips off part of roof at Lady of the Sea hospital after Louisiana landfall
Video posted to Twitter showed a large section of the Lady of the Sea hospital roof peeling off as Ida’s winds whipped through Galliano, Louisiana.
California Marine Kareem Nikoui, 20, killed in Kabul airport bombing: ‘His memory will live on forever’
California Marine Kareem Mae’Lee Grant Nikoui was identified as one of 13 American service members killed Thursday in an explosion in Afghanistan.