CALIF. FIRE PROMPTS UNHEALTHY AIR WARNINGS IN NEV.
By BRIAN SKOLOFF and SCOTT SONNER The Rim Fire burns through trees near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Firefighters gained some ground Tuesday against the huge…
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YOSEMITE-AREA WILDFIRE BALLOONS IN SIZE OVERNIGHT
By GOSIA WOZNIACKI U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., looks at the remains of a Lolo Creek home that was destroyed by the West Fork II fire when it swept down…
CHRISTIE: OBAMA ‘KEPT EVERY PROMISE’ ON STORM AID
By WAYNE PARRY FILE – In a Thursday, March 21, 2013 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks to a large gathering in Manasquan, N.J., during a town hall…
VENEZUELA WRESTLES OVER TRUTH OF BOMBING CLAIMS
By VIVIAN SEQUERA and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN FILE – In this June 3, 2012 file photo, Iris Varela, Venezuela’s Minister of Prisons, right, speaks to Wilmer Apostol, Venezuela’s Director of Prisons,…
IAEA: JAPAN NUKE CLEANUP MAY TAKE MORE THAN 40 YRS
By MARI YAMAGUCHI International Atomic Energy Agency mission team leader Juan Carlos Lentijo speaks during a press conference in Tokyo Monday, April 22, 2013. The U.N. nuclear watchdog team said…
RESCUERS SEARCH RUINS OF TEXAS FERTILIZER PLANT
By JOHN L. MONE and MICHAEL BRICK A fire still burns in a apartment complex destroyed near a fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, in this photo made…
THOUSANDS OF PAKISTANIS HOMELESS AFTER QUAKE
By ABDUL SATTAR and SEBASTIAN ABBOT People evacuate buildings and call their relatives after a tremor of an earthquake was felt in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. A major…