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Biden administration details how producers of sustainable aviation fuel will get tax credits 04/30/2024 06:41pm • The Biden administration spelled out guidelines Tuesday for tax breaks designed to boost production of sustainable aviation fuel and help curb fast-growing emissions from commercial airplanes. The Treasury Department actions would clear the way for tax credits for corn-based ethanol if producers fol Kenyans in flood-prone areas are ordered to evacuate or will be moved by force as death toll rises 04/30/2024 01:33pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Rain-swollen water levels at two Kenyan hydroelectric dams are at ���historic highs��� and people downstream should move away, the Cabinet said Tuesday, and ordered residents of flood-prone areas across the country to evacuate or they'll be moved by force. Kenya, along wit Today in History: April 30, Vietnam War ends with fall of Saigon 04/30/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, April 30, the 121st day of 2024. There are 245 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended as the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. On this date: In 1789, George Washington took the oath Philippine students are told to stay home as Southeast Asia swelters in prolonged heat wave 04/29/2024 08:59pm • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� Southeast Asia was coping with a weekslong heat wave on Monday as record-high temperatures led to school closings in several countries and urgent health warnings throughout the region. Millions of students in all public schools across the Philippines were ordered to stay A Colombian army helicopter has crashed in a rural area of the country's north, killing 9 soldiers 04/29/2024 07:30pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� An army helicopter carrying supplies to troops crashed in a rural area in northern Colombia on Monday, killing nine soldiers on board, the country���s armed forces said. In a statement, the Colombian military said the helicopter was taking the supplies to the municipality o US to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years and set performance standards 04/29/2024 06:10pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� In the not-too-distant future, automatic emergency braking will have to come standard on all new passenger vehicles in the United States, a requirement that the government says will save hundreds of lives and prevent thousands of injuries every year. The National Highway Traffic Saf Dubai plans to move its busy international airport to a $35 billion new facility within 10 years 04/28/2024 05:22am • Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state's second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches ���within the next 10 years��� in a project worth nearly $35 billion, its ruler said Sunday. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid A Residents begin going through the rubble after tornadoes hammer parts of Nebraska and Iowa 04/28/2024 12:09am • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Residents began sifting through the rubble Saturday after a tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions, then slamming an Iowa town. Dozens of reported tornadoes wreaked havoc Frid Sentence for DC man convicted of 2023 murder astonishes Montgomery Co.'s top prosecutor 04/27/2024 03:23pm • A Southeast D.C. man was sentenced Friday to life in prison, with all but 15 years suspended and another five years of supervised probation upon release for the deadly stabbing of a Rockville, Maryland, man in 2023. Tyrone Curtis, 35, was convicted of first-degree murder in January for killing Am Freight train derailment, fire forces Interstate 40 closure near Arizona-New Mexico line 04/26/2024 11:23pm • LUPTON, Ariz. (AP) ��� A freight train carrying fuel derailed and caught fire Friday near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the closure of an interstate highway that serves as a key trucking route. Initial passersby posted video and photos on social media of crumpled train cars and billowin Midwest tornadoes flatten homes in Nebraska suburbs and leave trails of damage in Iowa 04/26/2024 10:33pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday, damaging hundreds of homes and other structures as it tore for miles along farmland and into subdivisions. Some injuries were reported but there were no immediate reports that anyone was killed. Multiple tornadoes wer Temporary farmworkers get more protections against retaliation and other abuses under new rule 04/26/2024 07:59pm • SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) ��� Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule announced Friday. Each year about 300,000 immigrants, mostly from Mexico, take seas An emergency slide falls off a Delta Air Lines plane, forcing pilots to return to JFK in New York 04/26/2024 07:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� An emergency slide fell off a Delta Air Lines jetliner shortly after takeoff Friday from New York, and pilots who felt a vibration in the plane circled back to land safely at JFK Airport. Delta said that after takeoff the pilots got an alert about the emergency slide on the plane's Southwest Airlines is considering changes to its quirky boarding and seating practices 04/26/2024 04:13pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� Southwest Airlines is studying changes to its quirky boarding and seating policies as it searches for ways to raise more revenue. Airline officials say they are studying possible changes but won't have anything to announce until September. That tease is leading to speculation about w Ex-Nebraska deputy is indicted in connection with fatal highway shooting 04/26/2024 02:18pm • SEWARD, Neb. (AP) ��� A former Nebraska deputy is jailed after a grand jury indicted him on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a man in October, a prosecutor said Friday. Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon announced the indictment of former Seward County Deputy Anth