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What a blast to work at NASA. Space agency is sky-high again in latest survey of federal employees
WDSU New Orleans· 4 days agoExploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like everyone...
Big Oil gets whatever it wants, as long as it bankrolls Trump
Las Vegas Sun· 3 days agoA national newspaper scooped this month that Donald Trump gathered about two dozen oil industry executives for a chopped steak dinner at his Mar-a-Lago playground in April and suggested “a deal ...
Botanists scour the U.S.-Mexico border to document forgotten ecosystem split by border wall
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoNear the towering border wall flanked by a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the scrub yelp “chi-ca-go,” a sound the birds use to signal they are separated ...
Did Body Lice Spread Bubonic Plague? Research Suggests the Parasites Are Better Vectors Than Thought
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 days agoThe bubonic plague killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe—about one-third of the...
Embroiled in lawsuits from wildfires, Xcel faces tradeoffs of safety vs. cost
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune· 7 days agoA transmission line patrol foreman for Xcel Energy smacked the base of a wood power pole with a...
Bill Walton, NBA Hall of Famer and free spirit, dead at 71
Reuters· 2 days agoBill Walton, a two-time NBA champion and member of the basketball Hall of Fame, whose brilliant but...
Pouyanne Reappointed as TotalEnergies CEO
Rigzone· 3 days agoTotalEnergies SE’s board of directors has unanimously renewed Patrick Pouyanné’s term as chair and chief executive officer (CEO) after shareholders voted...
Youngkin says a bad hurricane season's coming, so have a plan
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 5 days agoA pretend storm, envisioned as barreling up from the Gulf Coast to dump 2 feet of water on the...
George H. Laws Garcia: Puerto Ricans want, deserve equal rights as America's 51st state
The Bismarck Tribune· 6 days agoFor 107 years, Puerto Ricans have lived as second-class U.S. citizens. Just last month, the U.S....
Nuclear sites, including Hanford, feeling the heat as climate change stokes wildfires drought
The Columbian· 5 days agoAs Texas wildfires burned toward the nation’s primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to...