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EPA issues new auto rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions, boosting electric vehicles and hybrids 03/20/2024 04:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration announced new automobile emissions standards Wednesday that officials called the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles. The new rules relax initial tailpipe limits proposed last year but eventually get close to t Vessel off Florida Keys identified as British warship that sank in the 18th century 03/20/2024 03:00pm • KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) ��� A wrecked seagoing vessel discovered decades ago off the Florida Keys has recently been identified as a British warship that sank in the 18th century. National Park Service archaeologists used new research to determine that the wreckage first spotted in 1993 near Dry Tortugas Philadelphia mass shooting suspect is headed to trial after receiving mental health treatment 03/20/2024 02:13pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� The suspect in a Philadelphia mass shooting last summer who had been deemed mentally incompetent is headed to trial after his lawyers told a judge he has been undergoing treatment and is prepared to move forward with the case. Kimbrady Carriker, 41, is charged with five counts 10 years after the deadliest US landslide, climate change is increasing the danger 03/20/2024 01:45pm • OSO, Wash. (AP) ��� After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history, Jessica Pzsonka made a promise -��� to herself, to her bereft parents and to her late sister, who was buried along with two young sons, her husband and in-l Elizabeth 'Libby' Murdaugh, mother of Alex, dies in hospice 03/20/2024 01:27pm • VARNVILLE, S.C. (AP) ��� Elizabeth ���Libby��� Murdaugh, the mother of Alex Murdaugh who played an important part in her son's adamant denials that he killed his wife and son, has died. Libby Murdaugh was in hospice care Tuesday when she died, according to Peeples-Rhoden Funeral Home in Hampton Coun Russia���s Belgorod region is under attack again from Ukraine. Why does it keep getting targeted? 03/20/2024 01:15pm • Russia���s Belgorod region has come under increasing Ukrainian attacks this month as the invasion by Moscow grinds into its third year. A look at the region and its role in the war: WHAT IS THE BELGOROD REGION? The region of forests, farmland and rolling hills has a 540-kilometer (335-mile) border a NCAA Women's Div. II Basketball Tournament Glance 03/20/2024 10:00am • All Times EDT First Round Friday, March 15 Atlantic Region At campus sites Gannon 73, West Virginia St. 53 Lock Haven 74, California (Pa.) 60 Fairmont St. 72, West Chester 68 Fayetteville St. 72, Indiana (Pa.) 63 Central Region Southern Nazarene 70, Henderson St. 61 Harding 82, Pittsburg St. 74, OT A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees capsizes off Indonesia's coast 03/20/2024 08:43am • BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) ��� A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia���s northernmost coast on Wednesday, according to local fishermen who rescued six people. The survivors said more people were still on the boat. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The A South Korean chemical tanker capsizes off Japan, killing 8 and leaving 2 missing 03/20/2024 07:13am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A South Korean chemical tanker capsized off an island in southwestern Japan on Wednesday, authorities said, killing eight people on board. One crew member survived, and the fate of two others was unknown. Officials said the tanker was carrying 980 tons of acrylic acid, a corrosive org A southeast Alaska community wrestles with a deadly landslide's impact 03/20/2024 12:10am • WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) ��� Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska, where they could settle on a few acres and have some chickens. A stretch of highway a few miles north, the only road into town, did make her nerv Heavy fighting rages around Gaza's biggest hospital as Israel raids it for a second day 03/19/2024 10:40pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Explosions and shootings shook the Gaza Strip���s biggest hospital and surrounding neighborhoods as Israeli forces stormed through the facility for a second day Tuesday. The military said it had killed 50 Hamas militants in the hospital, but it could not be independently c UN's Guterres decries violence in Myanmar as military airstrikes kill at least 25 Rohingya in west 03/19/2024 09:06pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Military airstrikes in western Myanmar killed at least 25 members of the country���s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children, local media reported, prompting the U.N. chief to express concerns over the escalating violence. According to the reports, the airstrikes took place ear March Madness: Long before Duquesne spent 47 years in anonymity, a progressive approach led to glory 03/19/2024 08:57pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Before Duquesne slid into basketball anonymity and nearly five decades of what coach Keith Dambrot only semi-jokingly describes as ���anguish,��� there was glory. Lots of it. Dambrot heard the tales firsthand from his father Sid, a guard and set-shot wizard on the Dukes' teams of Polygamous sect member pleads guilty in scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children 03/19/2024 08:37pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be convicted in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts inv California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serve as gateway to redwoods 03/19/2024 08:31pm • California's Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year. The Yurok will be the first Native people to manag