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Mice accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are breeding out of control because of climate change, and they are eating seabirds and causing major harm in a special nature reserve with "unique biodiversity."

By By GERALD IMRAY, Associated Press March 17, 2024
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The sun is about to pull another disappearing act across North America, turning day into night during a total solar eclipse.

By By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer March 17, 2024
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Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care.

By By DENISE LAVOIE and LEA SKEN, Associated Press March 13, 2024
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Federal airport security officials unveiled a passenger self-screening system Wednesday at busy Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, but say they do not plan to use it in other cities around the country.

By By KEN RITTER, Associated Press March 13, 2024
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The New York Times is fighting off Wordle "clones" -- arguing that numerous games inspired by the mega-popular word-guessing game infringe on its copyright protections.

By By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and GAETANE LEWIS, Associated Press March 13, 2024
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Passengers had to be evacuated from a United Airlines plane after it rolled off a runway and got stuck in the grass in Houston Friday morning.

March 10, 2024
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Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy race course.

By By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press March 9, 2024
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When her cellphone's service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn't panic.

By By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press February 27, 2024
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Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but the mechanics behind that has been a mystery.

By By MARIA CHENG, Associated Press February 27, 2024
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A Colorado man who died after getting bitten by a Gila monster was hardly alone in having the gnarly looking lizard for a pet.

By By MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press February 27, 2024
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Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day.

By By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer February 20, 2024
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It's not yet known what killed an endangered fin whale, but people can marvel at the large marine mammal as it decomposes on an Oregon beach.

By By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, Associated Press February 19, 2024
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Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar.

By By BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press February 19, 2024
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They couldn't see it, but they could hear it.

By ERALDO PERES and ELÉONORE HUGHES, Associated Press February 13, 2024
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Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

February 13, 2024

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