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Month: July 2024

Long Beach breaks ground on $1.5B railyard expansion at port to fortify US supply chain

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and other officials visited the port of Long Beach on Thursday to break ground on a $1.5 billion railyard expansion project that will more than triple the volume of rail cargo the dock can handle annually. Dubbed “America’s Green Gateway,” the project will expand

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Long Beach breaks ground on $1.5B railyard expansion at port to fortify US supply chain

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and other officials visited the port of Long Beach on Thursday to break ground on a $1.5 billion railyard expansion project that will more than triple the volume of rail cargo the dock can handle annually. Dubbed “America’s Green Gateway,” the project will expand

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Group says photos of reclusive tribe on Peru beach show logging concessions are ‘dangerously close’

An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe’s members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Survival International calls it evidence that logging is moving “dangerously close” to the tribe’s territory. The group said the photos it posted this week show members of the Mashco Piro, which

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Federal appeals court blocks remainder of Biden’s student debt relief plan

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court blocked the implementation of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, which would have lowered monthly payments for millions of borrowers. In a ruling Thursday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion for an administrative stay filed by a group of Republican-led states seeking

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Panama president says repatriation of migrants crossing the Darien Gap will be voluntary

Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino says that migrants entering Panama through the treacherous Darien Gap will only be sent back to their countries if they agree to do so, potentially diminishing the impact of stricter immigration enforcement Mulino had pushed. Mulino, who took office July 1, had promised to

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A police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in Paris. The attacker was killed by police

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in Paris in the Champs-Elysees neighborhood. Prosecutors say the assailant was shot and died from his wounds. The attack on Thursday came just days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said

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Hungary’s Orbán releases letter to EU leaders detailing his maligned Ukraine ‘peace mission’

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has released a letter he addressed to the heads of European Union countries presenting his impressions from a recent series of visits with some of the bloc’s biggest adversaries. The letter outlines Orbán’s assessment of meetings he held under the auspices of a self-declared

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