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But around A.D. 1230, two or three thousand men, women and children flourished among those canyons and mesas, people we know today only by the…
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WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Manchin III, the West Virginia Democrat who heads the Senate Energy Committee, announced Wednesday that he would vote to confirm Representative…
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Even if there had been, there was no political muscle to turn such ideas into reality. Though the environmental justice movement has deep roots in…
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On Saturday, Gov. Greg Abbott solemnly declared the state would not see another accident like Thursday’s deadly 100-plus-vehicle pileup on a frozen Fort Worth highway.…
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America is hardly alone. Only a handful of the nearly 200 countries that signed on to the Paris Agreement have met their targets; among big…
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Jessica and her husband run a farm where they grow and can most of their own vegetables, and butcher and process much of their own…
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