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Nation May 31
EPA allows expanded use of ethanol-gasoline mixThe Environmental Protection Agency's announcement ends a summertime ban on the E15 blend imposed out of concerns for increased smog.
Nation Mar 22
Midwest floods foreshadow national security threat posed by climate changeThe Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military's Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.
Nation Mar 16
Rescues, evacuations as floodwaters breach levees in MidwestAuthorities were using boats and large vehicles on Saturday to rescue and evacuate residents in parts of the Midwest where a recent deluge of rainwater and snowmelt was sent pouring over frozen ground, overwhelming creeks and rivers, and killing at…
Nation Oct 28
Enough is enough: Fed-up Americans crave unity amid violenceAs authorities intercepted more than a dozen pipe bombs addressed to President Donald Trump’s most ardent critics, political scientists and ordinary Americans observed, again, that rabid partisanship had devolved to the point of acts of violent extremism.
