EXPLAINER: Why and when are companies criminally charged?
NEW YORK — Lawyers representing former president Donald Trump's company say they believe the Manhattan district attorney plans to ask a state grand jury...
Brazil to redeploy troops to Amazon to fight deforestation
BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's president is sending troops back to the Amazon to bolster policing against logging and other illegal land clearance, acting amid...
NASA looks at Louisiana delta system, eyes global forecasts
MIKE ISLAND, La. — Erosion, sinking land and sea rise from climate change have killed the Louisiana woods where a 41-year-old Native American chief...
Pandemic points to need to work together as Italy hosts G-20
MATERA, Italy — With the pandemic providing painful lessons on how interconnected the world is, ministers from nations accounting for more than half the...
Rolling blackouts for parts of US Northwest amid heat wave
SPOKANE, Wash. — The unprecedented Northwest U.S. heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved inland Tuesday — prompting a electrical utility in...
First African American named to lead US Forest Service
WASHINGTON — Veteran forester Randy Moore has been named chief of the U.S. Forest Service, the first African American to lead the agency in...
Groups sue Biden admin over planned expansion of nuke work
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Watchdog groups sued the Biden administration Tuesday over its plans to produce plutonium cores for the U.S. nuclear stockpile, arguing federal...
Honda changing course, will build its own electric vehicles
DETROIT — Although General Motors will build Honda's first two fully electric vehicles for North America, the Japanese automaker plans to change course and...
France’s top court bans glue trapping to hunt birds
PARIS — France's top administrative court on Monday definitively banned the use of glue trapping to hunt birds, a technique that was denounced by...
EXPLAINER: Infrastructure deal targets lead pipes
WASHINGTON — Included in the bipartisan infrastructure deal reached with President Joe Biden last week is a plan to eliminate the country's remaining lead...
