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U.S. High Court Rejects $2.46B Boy Scouts Sex Abuse Settlement Challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the Boy Scouts of America's landmark $2.46 billion settlement of sex abuse claims in a case involving a group of abuse survivors who ...
Flawed Immigrant Trucker Licenses Put $50M in Federal Funds at Stake in North Carolina
North Carolina could lose nearly $50 million in federal funding if the state doesn't revoke commercial driver's licenses from immigrants who aren't qualified to hold them after an audit uncovered ...
Goldman Sachs Warns U.S. Grids Face Power Crunch by 2030
Almost all U.S. power grids will lack critical spare capacity by 2030 as demand surges to supply data centers, with bottlenecks threatening to hand China an edge in the artificial-intelligence boom, ...
Federal Aviation Notice Warned of Slackline Before Deadly Arizona Helicopter Crash
Federal aviation records show that a week before a fatal helicopter crash, a notice was issued that a tightrope would be stretched across a mountainous area of Arizona, providing a warning for pilots ...
Homeowners Critical of FAIR Plan, State Farm A Year After LA Wildfires
On the first anniversary of the most destructive wildfires in the L.A. area, the scant home construction projects stand out among the still mostly flattened landscapes. Fewer than a dozen homes have ...
Study Finds Rate of U.S. Coastal Sea Level Rise Doubled in the Past Century
A July 2025 report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) claims that U.S. tide gauge measurements "in aggregate show no obvious acceleration in sea level rise beyond ...
Surge of Supercharged Hurricanes Prompt Call for Cat 6 Classification
Scientists warn that warming sea surface temperatures are fueling a surge of extreme, off-the-charts storms, prompting a new hurricane category. Warm, deep ocean hot spots are leading to stronger and ...
US Weather Agency Sees 75% Chance of a La Nina Transition by Early 2026
La Nina continues to persist, with a 75 percent chance of a transition to ENSO-neutral conditions likely between January and March, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said on Thursday. ...