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EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans

WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape. The EPA proposal ...

Boeing 247-D

AP Photo The Boeing 247-D shown Sept. 28, 1937, this high speed, twin engine transport plane manufactured at the Boeing Aircraft Company of Seattle, Washington, was in widespread use carrying passengers, mail and express over routes of the United Airlines, Western Air Express, National Park ...

German far-right party targets iconic Bauhaus school ahead of landmark state election

DESSAU, Germany (AP) — Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down the world-famous Bauhaus school of design, it has once again become a cultural battleground between Germany’s establishment and the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has called the art movement an “aberration of modernism.” Founded in 1919, Bauhaus blurred lines between art and industry, influencing global design to this day. It remains a cultural icon that attracts a steady stream of visitors to its iconic school building and the museum in Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt. Attacks on Bauhaus by Alternative ...

Finland runs Europe’s biggest civil defense exercise since the Cold War

KUOPIO, Finland (AP) — In a civil defense shelter hewn into rock, behind doors designed to withstand a nuclear or biological attack, two Finnish conscripts wearing hazmat suits and breathing masks are measuring radiation levels as they take part in an exercise to turn a cave into a place ...

Trump again appeals to Supreme Court on mail-voting restrictions with midterm elections looming

BOSTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday again asked the Supreme Court to let it move ahead with restrictions on mail ballots before this year’s the midterm elections in November even as legal wrangling over President Donald Trump’s executive order continued in lower courts. The government filed an emergency appeal asking the court to intervene, one day before ballots begin going out for the midterm elections. The justices previously allowed the president’s plan to move ahead, but they have not decided whether it is legal. Under Trump’s executive order, the U.S. ...

Democrats are promising a big agenda. Their unity is already being tested

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beginning on Day One, House Democrats plan to “hold the crooks accountable.” That’s the promise House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has made, previewing an ambitious agenda with oversight of President Donald Trump’s administration and legislation to address the high costs of living, if Democrats seize majority control from Republicans in the midterm elections. But first, the Democratic leaders have to ensure they can keep their own politically diverse — and sometimes rebellious — big-tent caucus in line, which was tested this week. Two ...