Month: June 2024

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, which is expected to be […]

By FELIX MARQUEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — When the nursing home in southern Mexico began to bake in the country’s ongoing heat wave staff cycled their elderly residents through the few cooling options they had. First, some would sit in front of fans buzzing in […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — An attempted robbery at a highway rest area in eastern Nebraska left a 72-year-old man dead and his 71-year-old wife critically injured in a knife attack Wednesday, authorities said. The Hall County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to an Interstate 80 rest […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88. Sutherland died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, according to a statement from Creative Artists Agency, which represented him. Kiefer […]

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Amazon is shifting from the plastic air pillows used for packaging in North America to recycled paper because it’s more environmentally sound, and it says paper just works better. The company said Thursday that it’s already replaced 95% of the plastic air pillows with paper […]