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The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’ for climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains
These tiny songbirds have extraordinary memories for the tens of thousands of spots where they hide food. But that doesn’t help when heavy snow blocks their access.
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Five wounded when man shoots following fight over parking space at a Detroit bar
Five people were wounded early Friday after what Detroit police say was a dispute over a parking space outside a blues club. The argument started about 2:45 a.m. and had become physical when one man involved pulled a gun from a vehicle and fired shots into a crowd, Assistant Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald told reporters. “When he came back he brought a gun, as most cowards do,” Fitzgerald added.
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Amsterdam to mark role of tram system in transportation of Jews to death camps
Documentary on deportation of 48,000 Jewish Amsterdammers during Holocaust prompts city to act
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VideoHow one Maya chef is preserving one of the oldest forms of barbecue
Rosalía Chay is one of the few chefs in Mexico who still cooks using an underground oven called a pib to make cochinita pibil. Maya people in the Yucatán Peninsula have prepared it this way since at least 400 AD. But people have abandoned these traditions, swapping pibs for modern stoves.
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: DUP leader quits after being charged with historic sexual offences
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has been charged with historical sexual offences and has quit as Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader. Sir Jeffrey has been suspended from the DUP pending the outcome of the judicial process and Gavin Robinson has been appointed interim party leader.
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Weather tracker: Cyclone Gamane unexpectedly veers into Madagascar
Storm leaves at least 11 dead on African island, while another deadly storm racks Indonesian island of Sumatra
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US-funded Radio Free Asia closes its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns under new security law
The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening concerns about the city’s media freedoms. Bay Fang, the president of RFA, said in a statement Friday that it will no longer have full-time staff in Hong Kong, although it would retain its official media registration. “Actions by Hong Kong authorities, including referring to RFA as a ‘foreign force,’ raise serious questions about our abil
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