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The Biden administration is spending billions of dollars to clean up overgrown forests to protect rural towns from wildfires. Some complain the feds aren’t thinning forests fast enough while others say they’re cutting too many trees. (June 27) (AP Vide…
Government officials and relatives of victims of the Argentine military dictatorship on Monday marked the return of a plane used in the infamous “death flights”, where the military would throw detainees alive into the sea. (June 27) (AP Video/Victor R….
Thousands of air travelers faced flight cancellations and delays this weekend and Monday as thunderstorms rolled in across the U.S. East Coast and Midwest, stranding scores of people in airports nationwide. (June 27)
Here’s the latest for Tuesday June 27th: Putin speaks about mercenary revolt; Trump valet going to court; Suspect arrested in Boston-area stabbing deaths; Delays and cancellations plague US airlines.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday said it was a “happy day” as he claimed Ukrainian soldiers had made frontline advances “in all directions.” (June 27)
Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people. Police suggested the pool-hall killings may be related to last week’s gang-related massacre of 46 female inm…
A feud between the Wagner Group leader and Russia’s military brass that has festered throughout the special operation erupted into a mutiny that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city and roll seem…
Karen Strier started studying the biggest monkey in the Americas four decades ago, when there were just 50 of the animals left in a swath of Atlantic forest, in Brazil’s southeastern Minas Gerais state. Strier immediately fell in love with the northern…
Guatemalans have sent two presidential candidates from opposite sides of the political spectrum to a runoff, giving hope to many disenchanted voters that change may be possible. Both former first lady Sandra Torres of the conservative UNE party and Ber…
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