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NEW YORK (AP) — A major American aid group is promising to deliver more medicines in high-need areas around the world after receiving its largest ever donation. Americares, a nonprofit that supports thousands of health centers globally, announced a $50 million gift Wednesday from an unidentified Connecticut family. The contribution represents an unusual expansion at a time when the United States’ sudden aid cuts have hamstrung programs ranging from maternal […]

BELHAVEN, N.C. (AP) — Investors and scientists are restoring a 23-square-mile (60-square-kilometer) tract of peatland in North Carolina’s Inner Banks to curb emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide and regenerate native habitat. Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of ditches dug decades ago for an abandoned farming venture drained much of the water from thousands of years of accumulated peat — partially decayed organic matter up to 15 feet (4.6 meters) deep — […]

BELHAVEN, N.C. (AP) — The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It’s an idyllic setting in North Carolina’s Inner Banks, where fields of cotton, soybeans and corn stretch for miles, country roads wend through stands of pines and thousands of bird watchers […]

President Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration. A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Trump “has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit, including at times employees and aides, both in government and in his time in the private […]

By Vallari Srivastava and Pranav Mathur Sept 9 (Reuters) – U.S. oilfield services provider Baker Hughes raised its full-year forecasts on Wednesday, reflecting the benefits of its $13.6 billion acquisition of industrial equipment maker Chart Industries. Speaking at the Barclays Annual Energy conference, CEO Lorenzo Simonelli also struck an optimistic tone on liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets, where equipment demand has been pressured by the slow pace of new project sanctions […]

TEL AVIV, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Wednesday that the government does not plan to deport Palestinians from Gaza, after two Israeli ministers this month floated proposals for the mass removal of Palestinians from the coastal territory. • “We are not planning to expel or to deport anyone from (the) Gaza Strip,” Saar told a press conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. • “If someone wants […]

Sept 9 (Reuters) – Western powers have submitted a proposed resolution to the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors that would report Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years for breaching its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Diplomats at the International Atomic Energy Agency say the text proposed by the United States, Britain, France and Germany is almost certain to pass, with […]

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s congressional map remained unsettled Tuesday after dueling court decisions created new uncertainty just eight weeks before Election Day, while a federal judge moved to preserve the districts used in the August primary and prevent what he called potentially chaotic changes before November. U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark, appointed by President Donald Trump, temporarily barred Missouri from using its old congressional districts in the general […]