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As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives 09/10/2024 09:43am • CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP) ��� Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay. The economic base collapsed when the military left town. Rail service and cargo ships ��� the lifeblood of supplies for a town not connected to the r Europe tries to capture the Solheim Cup for a 4th straight time. PGA Tour fall starts in California 09/10/2024 09:43am • LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour SOLHEIM CUP Site: Gainesville, Virginia. Course: Robert Trent Jones GC. Yardage: 6,706. Par: 72. Television: Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 8:45 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel), noon to 3 p.m. Pope Francis��� Mass in East Timor draws 600,000 people, nearly half the population 09/10/2024 08:21am • TASITOLU, East Timor (AP) ��� An estimated 600,000 people ��� nearly half of East Timor���s population ���- packed a seaside park Tuesday for Pope Francis��� final Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed 35 years ago during the nation���s fight for independence from Indonesia. The A robot begins removal of melted fuel from the Fukushima nuclear plant. It could take a century 09/10/2024 12:14am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom. The robot's trip into the Unit 2 reactor is a crucial initial step Thousands evacuate as wildfires rage outside Los Angeles and Reno, Nevada 09/09/2024 09:33pm • MOUNTAIN HOME VILLAGE, Calif. (AP) ��� As a raging wildfire continues to spread east of Los Angeles, driven by days of triple-digit temperatures, a teacher in an evacuation zone is planning to keep instructing online at his home in a Southern California mountain town. Stephen Richardson, whose 1930s Man accused of shooting 5 on Kentucky interstate vowed to 'kill a lot of people,' warrant says 09/09/2024 09:08pm • LONDON, Ky. (AP) ��� The man suspected of opening fire on a highway in Kentucky sent a text message vowing to ���kill a lot of people��� less than 30 minutes before he shot and wounded five people on Interstate 75, authorities said in an arrest warrant. ���I���m going to kill a lot of people. Well t Louisiana residents brace as Tropical Storm Francine is expected to hit their coast as a hurricane 09/09/2024 08:10pm • BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Francine strengthened Monday in the Gulf of Mexico and was forecast to make landfall as a hurricane this week in Louisiana, where evacuation orders were quickly issued in some coastal communities and residents began filling sandbags in preparation for heavy r 7 Best Natural Gas Stocks and Funds to Buy Now 09/09/2024 08:00pm • The global liquefied natural gas industry is projected to maintain an 8.1% compound annual growth rate from now until 2030, according to Grand View Research. The high growth rate comes as individuals and businesses look for energy sources that emit fewer carbon emissions than coal, though natural ga Fewer than 400 households reject $600 million Ohio train derailment settlement 09/09/2024 07:00pm • Very few people who live near the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment opted out of a $600 million class action settlement despite residents' reservations about whether the deal offers enough, so lawyers argue the agreement should be approved later this month. The lawyers who negotiated the deal NASA spacecraft to study Jupiter moon's underground ocean cleared for October launch 09/09/2024 06:21pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� NASA on Monday approved next month���s launch to Jupiter���s moon Europa after reviewing the spacecraft���s ability to withstand the intense radiation there. Questions about the reliability of the transistors on the Europa Clipper spacecraft arose earlier this year afte Ex-employees of Titanic submersible's owner to testify before Coast Guard panel 09/09/2024 05:19pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Former employees of the company that owned an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic are scheduled to testify before a Coast Guard investigatory board at an upcoming hearing. The Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic in June How DC is using a robot to help keep track of street signs 09/09/2024 05:05pm • Its eyes make hearts and stars, and they may wink at you as the Kiwibot roams streets across D.C. Contrary to speculation, the robot that���s been captured on social media in recent days isn���t giving out parking tickets. Instead, it���s part of a pilot program that���s helping D.C.���s Depa Decades after 9/11, Reagan Airport showcases why security remains a top priority 09/09/2024 05:00pm • Sandals. A baseball hat. An adorable stuffed panda. They all sat on a table in Ronald Reagan National Airport, and they all hid potentially deadly explosives. They weren't the real thing but mock-ups of the kind of items the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has discovered over the New search opens for plane carrying 3 that crashed in Michigan's Lake Superior in 1968 09/09/2024 04:32pm • A high-tech unmanned boat outfitted with sonar and cameras is trying to solve the mystery of a 1968 plane crash that killed three people who were on a scientific assignment at Michigan's Lake Superior. Seat cushions and pieces of stray metal have washed ashore over decades. But the wreckage of the B Top leaders of Imran Khan's party arrested in Pakistan after being accused of inciting violence 09/09/2024 03:59pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistani police arrested Monday several top leaders from former imprisoned Prime Minister Imran Khan's opposition party, a day after some people clashed with the police a mile from a protest calling for his release. Among the detainees, accused of inciting violence, was the pres