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Fires have consumed nearly 20,000 acres in Va. this spring. That could be good for the environment. 04/22/2024 03:23pm • A fire at The Waterfall Mountain complex west of Luray Wednesday night. (Courtesy Peter Forister Photography) Almost 20,000 acres have been lit by flames that primarily torched the western and central parts of the state so far during Virginia’s 2024 spring fire season. With about a week left u Tennessee's GOP governor says Volkswagen plant workers made a mistake in union vote 04/22/2024 03:14pm • GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Monday that he thinks workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga made a mistake by voting to unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election but acknowledged the choice was ultimately up to them. Ahead of the vote, Lee Delta Air Lines, facing another union attempt to organize flight attendants, is raising their pay 04/22/2024 12:16pm • Delta Air Lines, the most profitable U.S. carrier, is raising pay for nonunion employees as it gets ready for another attempt by a union to represent its flights attendants. CEO Ed Bastian told Delta employees Monday that the airline will boost pay for flight attendants and ground workers by 5%, rai How to Create an Eco-Friendly Lawn That Won't Drive Your Neighbors Wild 04/21/2024 08:00pm • Lawn tastes have changed over the years. There was a time that if your lawn hadn't been mowed in a while, you might be considered lazy. Now, people may just think you have an eco-friendly yard. As climate change continues to cause extreme storms and affect everything from air pollution to agricultur Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package 04/21/2024 07:15pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel, its close ally. Israel has carried out Climate advocates want to solve their 'biggest problem' in the US: Turning out voters 04/21/2024 04:45pm • ABC News In battleground states across the country, environmental activists like Dr. Emily Church are canvassing on behalf of an organization called the Environmental Voter Project in an effort to turn out people who care the most about climate change — but who haven't shown up for past elec Crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states creates a shadow war for the 2024 election 04/21/2024 09:48am • CHICAGO (AP) — As President Joe Biden and Donald Trump step up their campaigning in swing states, a quieter battle is taking place in the shadows of their White House rematch. The Republican National Committee, newly reconstituted under Trump, has filed election-related lawsuits in nearly half the Marijuana grow busted in Maine as feds investigate trend in 20 states 04/21/2024 01:05am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The high electricity consumption of a home, its cardboard-covered windows and odor of marijuana drew law enforcement's attention to an illicit grow operation off the beaten path in rural Maine. The bust of the home with a hidden grow operation and seizure of nearly 40 pou Will there be a 'superbloom' this year in California? Here's what to know 04/21/2024 01:02am • Carpets of yellow, orange and gold flowers are beginning to cover Southern California's vast deserts, the Bay Area's dramatic bluffs and even near Los Angeles International Airport. But do they add up to a “superbloom”? There is no single definition of the event, but so far this year's blooms ha Autoworkers union celebrates breakthrough win in Tennessee and takes aim at more plants in the South 04/20/2024 08:55pm • DALLAS (AP) — The United Auto Workers' overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country. The UAW won a stunning 73% of the vote at VW after losing elections in 2014 and 2 After Congress finally does pass new funding, this is how the US can rush weapons to Ukraine 04/20/2024 05:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days once Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That's because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already hold the ammunition and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs. Moving fast Tennessee Volkswagen employees overwhelmingly vote to join United Auto Workers union 04/20/2024 01:13pm • CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to organize nonunion factories. The union wound up getting 2,628 votes, or 73% of the ball Here’s what marijuana researchers have to say about 420 or ‘weed day’ 04/20/2024 05:30am • (CNN) — It’s 420 or “weed day,” and people around the world will be paying homage to their favorite guilty pleasure: marijuana.Currently, 24 states, two territories and the District of Columbia in the United States have legalized marijuana for recreational use, making it that much easier As Russia edges toward a possible offensive on Kharkiv, some residents flee. Others refuse to leave 04/20/2024 01:56am • KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A 79-year-old woman makes the sign of the cross and, gripping her cane, leaves her home in a quaint village in northeast Ukraine. Torn screens, shattered glass and scorched trees litter the yard of Olha Faichuk's apartment building in Lukiantsi, north of the city of Kharki Today in History: April 20, 2 students kill 12 at Columbine High School 04/20/2024 12:00am • Today is Saturday, April 20, the 111th day of 2024. There are 255 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 20, 1999, the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado as two students shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives. On thi