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Army to spend $2B to build nuclear microreactors at 5 bases as US seeks to ramp up nuclear power 0
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- August 27, 2026
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army announced Wednesday that it plans to add nuclear microreactors at five military bases from New York to Texas as a reliable source of energy independent of the commercial electric grid. The announcement comes as the Trump administration pushes hard to develop the next generation of nuclear power, including billions in
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A look at major lawsuits against Meta and other social media companies over harms to kids 0
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- August 27, 2026
A settlement announced Wednesday between Meta and dozens of states resolves one of its biggest legal fights, but the social media giant is still facing litigation elsewhere over its products’ effects on young people’s mental health. The deal cut short a landmark trial in federal court in Oakland, California, where the Instagram and Facebook parent
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A federal prisoner with no clear ties to Alaska advances in primary 0
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- August 26, 2026
JUNEAU, Alaska — A man who is serving time in a federal prison in New York advanced on Wednesday from the primary for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat. Eric Hafner, a registered Democrat, also ran for the seat in 2024 and secured a spot on the general election ballot that November despite a challenge brought
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Cousin of 10-year-old Wisconsin girl pleads guilty to her killing and gets life in prison 0
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- August 26, 2026
MADISON, Wis. — The cousin of a 10-year-old Wisconsin girl killed in 2022 pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional homicide on Wednesday and was sentenced to life in prison. Lily Peters was riding her bike home from her aunt’s house in Chippewa Falls on April 24, 2022, when Carson Peters-Berger persuaded her to leave a trail
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Invasive green crabs are bad for the environment so New Englanders are starting to eat more of them 0
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- August 26, 2026
YORK, Maine — As a morning fog lifted over Maine’s York River, Mike Masi and his two interns stood on a dock sorting through a mound of one of the region’s most despised crabs and hoped to find a few that would end up on a gastronome’s plate somewhere in New England. The trick is
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ICE agent charged with shooting in Minnesota could be released from Texas jail 0
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- August 26, 2026
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — An ICE agent charged in Minnesota with firing his gun through a house door, striking a man in his leg, and then lying to justify the shooting, could walk out of a South Texas jail on Thursday if a federal judge does not intervene. Christian Castro, an agent for U.S. Immigration and
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