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The U.S. Forest Service’s plan to close scores of research stations could threaten the nation’s wildfire readiness, many foresters fear, and erode decades of work to understand timber production, soil health, pests and...Read more

Congress’ move to allow mining in a national forest near a wilderness area may have broad ramifications across the country.

The U.S. Senate voted April 16 to overturn a mining ban in Minnesota’s Superior National ...Read more

In three conservative states — Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota — residents in recent years voted to amend their state constitutions to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Now Republican lawmakers in all...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sharon Zavaleta Chuquipa struggles to sleep in the room she shared with her younger sister. Every corner, decoration and toy holds devastating little reminders of the 12-year-old whose life was abruptly cut...Read more

Christina Applegate has been a "guiding light" for Chad King as he lives with multiple sclerosis (MS).

The 54-year-old actress and the A Great Big World member, 40, were diagnosed with the incurable chronic autoimmune ...Read more

Alex Winter said acting with Keanu Reeves on Broadway was "trippy and uncommon".

The actors star in Waiting for Godot, and the experience felt surreal and unusual for Alex, 60, because he tried to juggle playing Vladimir ...Read more

Travis Barker is set to explore "the thin line between survival and surrender" in a new documentary.

The Blink-182 drummer is set for a new project with Hulu exploring the aftermath of a horror plane crash in 2008, which ...Read more

Reese Witherspoon insists she is "just a curious human" after backlash over her comments about AI.

The 50-year-old actress sparked controversy after revealing she wants to "learn as much as [she] possibly can" about ...Read more

Donald Trump, the president who fancied himself a “very stable genius,” shows very little of that stability these days. More than 80 Democratic members of Congress have called for invoking the 25th Amendment to ...Read more

This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America.

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On May 18, 2018, a teenager at Santa Fe High School in Texas walked into the school armed with his father’s ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Updated for the first time in six years, clinical guidelines for screening and managing cholesterol now recommend earlier screenings — as young as nine years old — for those with a family history of heart...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The sudden, but not surprising, resignation of U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick leaves more than 300,000 voters in Broward and Palm Beach counties without a voice in the U.S. House of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a time of bitter partisanship, there’s one thing that brings the country together: hating Congress.

But while Capitol Hill is consistently and deeply unpopular, there are at least two specific actions ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Veteran advocates who welcomed President Donald Trump's May executive order calling for a new National Center for Warrior Independence in West Los Angeles now say they are mystified and disappointed by the ...Read more

Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan have announced plans to move forward with a pipeline project that would provide Southern California a much-needed connection to gasoline and other refined products via fuel terminals in other ...Read more

Seattle-based real estate giant Redfin failed to disclose pay in its job openings, a new lawsuit claims.

Skagit County resident Shannon Spencer alleges in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in King County Superior Court that ...Read more

Tracy Cambron couldn't afford to buy a house in Seattle when she moved here a decade ago. Still, she wanted to give her two kids a childhood like hers — one where they could play in a yard, trick-or-treat at neighbors’...Read more

Sky-high office vacancy rates still haunt the downtowns of San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco, despite bursts of tech lease deals in Silicon Valley that have largely bypassed the urban cores of the Bay Area’s three ...Read more

How renters pay for utilities in Seattle has become a hot topic over the last year.

A system that divides a building’s total utility bills between units instead of a flat rate has raised fairness and transparency ...Read more

Emily Blunt and her husband John Krasinski's daughters watched The Devil Wears Prada because their pals were "very into it".

The 2006 film went down a storm with Hazel, 12, and Violet, nine, and they cannot wait to see ...Read more