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    New Haven mayor says police chief admitted to stealing money from department, accepts retirement

    Mayor Justin Elicker called the allegations “shocking” and a “betrayal of public trust.”

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    Georgia’s ‘America First’ license plates, Washington’s $17 minimum wage and Hawaii’s climate change tourist tax: new laws are on the books

    By David A. Lieb and The Associated Press
    December 30, 2025
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    Environment

    ‘Almost impossible’: Another one of the hottest years on record brings previously unimaginable frequency of heat waves

    By Alexa St. John and The Associated Press
    December 30, 2025
    Winter storm cancels more than 1,000 flights in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions as state of emergency declared in N.Y., N.J.
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    Winter storm cancels more than 1,000 flights in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions as state of emergency declared in N.Y., N.J.

    By Leah Willingham and The Associated Press
    December 27, 2025
    At the edges of the AI data center boom, rural America is up against Silicon Valley billions
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    At the edges of the AI data center boom, rural America is up against Silicon Valley billions

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    Hawaii’s Big Island cat lovers are furious about a feeding ban to protect an endangered goose species: ‘They’re both living creatures’

    By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press
    December 27, 2025
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    Environment

    Why coyotes won’t become the new wolves and what it has to do with moose and beaver

    By Alex Jensen and The Conversation
    December 23, 2025
    Trump administration puts offshore wind projects on hold, citing mysterious Pentagon national security warning
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    Trump administration puts offshore wind projects on hold, citing mysterious Pentagon national security warning

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
    December 22, 2025
    Solar power and battery storage are booming despite Trump policy whiplash as clean energy meets soaring data center demand
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    Solar power and battery storage are booming despite Trump policy whiplash as clean energy meets soaring data center demand

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
    December 21, 2025
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    2025: the year sustainability didn’t die 

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    December 21, 2025
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    ‘Mother Nature has been dealing a really hard deck’: Western ski resorts struggle with a warm, snowless start to winter

    By Mead Gruver, Brittany Peterson and The Associated Press
    December 19, 2025
    The Trump Media & Technology Group said Dec. 18 it would merge in a $6 billion deal with the TAE Technologies fusion energy developer.
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    CEO of nuclear fusion firm Trump Media is merging with in $6 billion deal: High-velocity capital is ‘critical’ and concerns are secondary

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    December 18, 2025
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    Devin Nunes and Trump Media get in bed with Google-backed nuclear fusion company in surprise $6 billion merger

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    December 18, 2025
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    Trump goes nuclear: The president’s tech and media umbrella will merge with a fusion reactor developer in a deal valued north of $6 billion

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    December 18, 2025
    Ford CEO Jim Farley said Trump would halve the EV market by ending subsidies. Now he’s writing down $19.5 billion amid a ‘customer-driven’ shift
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    Ford CEO Jim Farley said Trump would halve the EV market by ending subsidies. Now he’s writing down $19.5 billion amid a ‘customer-driven’ shift

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    December 16, 2025
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    Colorado is suffering from Christmas Tree inflation because Denver imports most of them—from North Carolina and the Pacific Northwest

    By Ali Besharat and The Conversation
    December 16, 2025
    Detroit, Michigan, Residents picket DTE Energy, opposing the electric utility's plan to provide power for a proposed $7 billion data center in rural Michigan.
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    A grassroots NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom

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    December 16, 2025
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    Maine is getting Loony again as population of beloved bird doubles since 1983

    By Patrick Whittle and The Associated Press
    December 14, 2025
    U.S., Mexico strike deal to settle Rio Grande water dispute
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    U.S., Mexico strike deal to settle Rio Grande water dispute

    By Fabiola Zerpa and Bloomberg
    December 13, 2025
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    Banking on carbon markets 2.0: why financial institutions should engage with carbon credits

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    December 13, 2025
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    ‘This year, I really see education and climate’: Patterns in billionaire MacKenzie Scott’s massive giving emerge with time

    By Thalia Beaty and The Associated Press
    December 11, 2025
    Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis
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    Google DeepMind agrees to sweeping partnership with U.K. government focused on science and clean energy

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    December 11, 2025
    Rivian CEO says buying an EV isn’t a political choice, pointing out that R1 buyers are split evenly between Republicans and Democrats
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    Rivian CEO says buying an EV isn’t a political choice, pointing out that R1 buyers are split evenly between Republicans and Democrats

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    December 10, 2025
    Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands, after identifying it as ‘the most problematic thing’
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    Google Cloud CEO lays out 3-part strategy to meet AI’s energy demands, after identifying it as ‘the most problematic thing’

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    December 9, 2025
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    Apple won’t be the same in 2026. Meet the company’s next generation of leaders and rising stars after its biggest executive exodus in years

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    December 8, 2025
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    ‘You have an entire culture, an entire community that is also having that same crisis’: Colorado coal town looks anxiously to the future

    By Brittany Peterson, Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
    December 6, 2025
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    Environment

    The rise of AI reasoning models comes with a big energy tradeoff

    By Rachel Metz, Dina Bass and Bloomberg
    December 5, 2025
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    Environment

    ‘This species is recovering’: Jaguar spotted in Arizona, far from Central and South American core

    By Susan Montoya Bryan and The Associated Press
    December 5, 2025
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    Big Tech

    Apple is experiencing its biggest leadership shake-up since Steve Jobs died, with over half a dozen key executives headed for the exits

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    December 5, 2025
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    Turning public companies into private companies: the SEC’s retreat from transparency and accountability

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    December 5, 2025
    Four years ago, BKV started buying up the two Temple power plants in Texas—located between Austin and Dallas—which now total 1.5 gigawatts of electricity generation capacity—enough to power more than 1.1 million homes, or a major data center campus. There is room to expand.
    Energy

    How a Texas gas producer plans to exploit the ‘megatrend’ of power plants for AI hyperscalers

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    December 5, 2025

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