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FILE - Future President Claudia Sheinbaum waves to supporters at the Zocalo, Mexico City’s main square, after the National Electoral Institute announced she held an irreversible lead in the election, early Monday, June 3, 2024.

Uncertainty is winner, and incumbents losers so far in year of high-stakes global elections

July 19, 2024, 6:39pm Nation & World

Discontented, economically squeezed voters have turned against sitting governments on both right and left during many of the dozens of elections held this year, as global power blocs shift and political certainties crumble. Read story

Bangladesh imposes curfew after days of deadly protests

July 19, 2024, 6:29pm Nation & World

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government late Friday announced a nationwide curfew across Bangladesh and ordered the deployment of military forces to maintain order following days of deadly clashes over the allocation of government jobs. Read story

A flood-damaged potato field is seen July 12 at Sparrow Arc Farm in Guildhall, Vt. Vermont farms lost crops in last week’s flooding, a year to the day after last July’s severe flooding.

Vermont farmers take stock after floods hit crops 2 years in a row

July 19, 2024, 5:47pm Nation & World

Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont, Joe’s Brook Farm was flooded again by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. Read story

2 more bird flu cases in Colo.; study finds no asymptomatic infections

July 19, 2024, 5:38pm Health

U.S. health officials on Friday announced two more bird flu cases among farmworkers, but they also said a new study in Michigan suggested the virus is not causing silent infections in people. Read story

FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the press in Washington, July 17, 2024. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday, July 19, at separate panels in Colorado, that Iran is talking more about getting a nuclear bomb, and has made strides in developing one key aspect of a weapon in recent months. Sullivan says he has seen no sign Iran has decided to actually weaponize its nuclear program. Blinken says Iran recently has stepped up work on fissile material to fuel a bomb.

U.S. says Iran moving forward on a key aspect of developing a nuclear bomb

July 19, 2024, 3:56pm Nation & World

Iran is talking more about getting a nuclear bomb and has made strides in developing a key aspect of a weapon since about April, when Israel and its allies overpowered a barrage of Iranian airstrikes targeting Israel, two top Biden administration officials said Friday. Read story

As Trump looms, Blinken points to vows to aid Ukraine

July 19, 2024, 3:48pm Nation & World

Ukraine is on its way to being able to “stand on its own feet” militarily, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday, noting that more than 20 other countries have pledged to maintain their own military and financial aid to the country even if the U.S. were to withdraw its… Read story

U.S. appeals court allows EPA rule on coal-fired power plants to remain in place amid legal challenges

FILE - Steam billows from a coal-fired power plant Nov. 18, 2021, in Craig, Colo. A federal appeals court on Friday, July 19, 2024, allowed a Biden administration rule aimed at limiting planet-warming pollution from coal-fired power plants to remain in place, even as legal challenges continue. The EPA rule, announced in April, would force many coal-fired power plants to capture 90% of their carbon emissions or shut down within eight years.

July 19, 2024, 1:15pm Business

In a victory for President Joe Biden’s administration, a federal appeals court on Friday ruled that a new federal regulation aimed at limiting planet-warming pollution from coal-fired power plants can remain in force as legal challenges continue. Read story