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The parched carcass of a tilapia is half buried in the dried bones and scales of millions of other tilapia that have died and washed ashore at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area. The stagnant lake is prone to algal blooms that consume oxygen and result in massive fish dieÇ&fnof;Ïoffs.

Southern California’s Salton Sea is now smelly all year long and making people’s asthma worse. The culprit? Bacteria

August 11, 2024, 5:30am Nation & World

Five years ago, Lisa Clark and her husband left her hometown of El Centro for Niland, a small town of 500, in search for more affordable housing. But now they’re paying a hidden cost for living just two miles southeast of the Salton Sea. Read story

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, shake hands at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Saturday, Aug.

Donald Trump’s campaign says its emails were hacked

August 10, 2024, 10:07pm Nation & World

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. Read story

Jennifer Leigh Husbands, 51, is shown near her home Aug. 1 in Chicago. Husbands is Caribbean American; her mother is from Michigan and her father is from Barbados. (Armando L.

Questions confusing ancestry and identity are exhausting: Multiracial people one of fastest-growing groups in America

August 10, 2024, 6:04am Nation & World

Jennifer Leigh Husbands remembers the first time she was confronted with questions about whether she was Black or white. She was a student at the University of Virginia, and Husbands, whose mother was from Michigan and father from Barbados, listened to Grateful Dead music and drank beer at the time.… Read story

OceanGate Expeditions’ Titan submersible in 2021.

Explorer’s kin could have difficulty winning lawsuit over Titan sub

August 10, 2024, 6:03am Business

A lawsuit stemming from the Titan submersible disaster felt inevitable, but winning a big judgment against the owner of the vessel could be very difficult, legal experts said on Thursday. Read story

Federal infrastructure funding is fueling a push to remove dams and restore river habitat

August 10, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World

On the whooshing Watauga River, excavators claw at the remains of Shulls Mill Dam, pulling concrete apart piece by piece and gradually opening a waterway kept in check for nearly two centuries. Read story

15 states sue to block effort to help Dreamers get health coverage

FILE - Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach participates in a ceremony honoring fallen law enforcement officers, Friday, May 3, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Kansas is one of 15 states that filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act’s health insurance.

August 10, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World

Fifteen states filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act’s health insurance. Read story

Preschool in Alaska changed lives for parents and kids alike

Shadows Myers, facing, hugs center receptionist Eryn Martin as Associate Educator Carrie McClure, left, looks on while they say their goodbyes following the last day of school at the Meadow Lakes CCS Early Learning, a Head Start center, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Wasilla, Alaska. To keep staff from leaving for higher-paying jobs elsewhere, even Target, the regional Head Start group decided it would permanently close the Meadow Lakes location at the end of the school year in an attempt to raise wages overall. About half the Meadow Lakes children and their families, many low income, hope to be granted a spot at a different Head Start center in the area, but there are few guarantees.

August 10, 2024, 6:01am Nation & World

She was a teenager, and the mother of a 2-year-old, when a knock came on the door of her trailer. Two women were there to tell her about a federally funded preschool program called Head Start that was opening near her home in Chugiak. Would she be interested in enrolling… Read story