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US stocks gain ground following 7 weeks of losses

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday following seven weeks of declines that nearly ended the bull market that began in March 2020. The S&P 500 rose 1.8%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.9% and the Nasdaq rose 1.3%. Banks and technology stocks […]

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Forest Service Announcing Pause of Operations

Washington D.C., May 20, 2022 – U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore cited the extreme conditions Friday in announcing a pause on prescribed fire operations on all national forest lands while his agency conducts a 90-day review of protocols, decision-making tools and practices ahead of planned operations this fall. “Our primary goal […]

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Recall: select Jif® peanut butter products

May 21, 2022 (FDA) The J. M. Smucker Co. is recalling select Jif® peanut butter products sold in the U.S. due to potential Salmonella contamination. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often […]

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MN commission wants to regulate CO2 pipelines

MN utility commission: CO2 pipelines should be regulated ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP ) — Minnesota utility regulators have decided pipelines that carry carbon dioxide are hazardous and therefore subject to state approval. The decision by the Public Utilities Commission Thursday affects two multibillion-dollar CO2 pipelines proposed to cross Minnesota and […]

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Grand jury Indicts Man in Buffalo Shooting

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket appeared briefly in court Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on a first-degree murder charge. Assistant district attorney Gary Hackbush said the indictment of 18-year-old Payton Gendron was handed up Wednesday. He […]

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Baby Formula Factory Could Reopen by Next Week

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s commissioner says a shuttered baby formula factory could be up and running by next week. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf faced congressional anger Thursday for not answering questions about whether his agency should have intervened earlier at the Michigan plant tied to a […]

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US Forestry Dept – Teaches Fire Tigers Program

May 11, 2022 – The only way to understand the nuances of working a fireline is by being on one. The six-year-old Fire Tigers Program recently took more than 50 Clemson University students and put them through the rigors of classroom training, then placed them with fire professionals as they learned how […]

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Letter Carrier Food Drive Nationwide

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 30th annual food drive on Saturday, May 14. Stamp Out Hunger, the country’s largest one-day food drive, provides communities with an easy way to donate food to those in need. The traditional food drive returns this year after a two-year hiatus […]

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Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism, Arts to be Announced

NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prizes are set Monday to honor the best journalism from a tumultuous year that saw an insurrection, the frantic end of the United States’ longest war and fallout from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and catastrophic climate change. The winners in 15 journalism categories and […]