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A new report criticizes decisions made to stop a 2016 fire in California's Big Sur area that became the costliest wildfire fight in U.S. history

French police have pushed protesters off the Champs-Elysees in Paris with tear gas and water cannon, and re-opened the French capital's famed avenue to traffic

A nuclear test reactor that can melt uranium fuel rods in seconds is running again after a near quarter-century shutdown as U.S. officials try to revamp a fading nuclear power industry with safer fuel designs and a new generation of power plants

Tear gas is billowing across the protest-scarred Champs Elysees Saturday after a day of largely peaceful demonstrations, during the fifth straight weekend of protests by France's "yellow vest" movement

Attempts by developed nations at the U.N. climate talks in Poland to create watertight rules for international carbon emissions trading have prompted new, last-minute demands from Brazil

Belgian police say a man has died after he crashed his car into a truck at a protesters' roadblock on the Franco-Belgian border

Brexit debate needs a change of tone, Anglican bishops say

A deal on the rules that govern the Paris climate accord appeared within grasp Saturday, as officials from almost 200 countries worked to bridge remaining differences after two weeks of U.N. talks in Poland

Germany's rail operator says it has reached a new wage agreement with workers, averting the possibility of more strikes during the Christmas crunch

A strong police presence deploys in Paris the fifth straight weekend of demonstrations by the "yellow vest" protesters, with authorities repeating calls for calm after protests on previous weekends turned violent.

Officials from around the world are still working to agree on the fine print of the Paris climate accord after two weeks of talks, even as workers busily dismantle sections of the conferenced venue around them

A federal judge in Texas has ruled President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act unconstitutional

Saturday is the deadline for ACA health law coverage in most of the country

A federal judge in Texas has ruled President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act unconstitutional

U.S. prosecutors in Hawaii are accusing the owners and officers of a Japanese fishing boat of helping Indonesian fishermen smuggle nearly 1,000 shark fins

U.S. prosecutors in Hawaii are accusing the owners and officers of a Japanese fishing boat of helping Indonesian fishermen smuggle nearly 1,000 shark fins

A federal judge in Texas has ruled President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act unconstitutional

CBS grants $20 million to 18 women's rights groups as it tries to recover from Moonves scandal

California is moving to eliminate fossil fuels from its fleet of 14,000 transit buses, enacting a first-in-the-nation mandate that will vastly increase the number of electric buses on the road

A Kentucky appeals court says the secret testimony from a former president of one of the world's largest manufacturers of dangerously addictive opioid painkillers must be released to the public