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FILE – This April 18, 2013 aerial file photo, shows the remains of a nursing home, left, apartment complex, center, and fertilizer plant, right, destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Images of a massive explosion in the Lebanese capital looked depressingly familiar to West, Texas Mayor Tommy, whose small town in 2013 was partly leveled by one of the deadliest fertilizer plant explosions in U.S. history. “I don’t know what people were thinking about storing that stuff,” Muska said, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) CER103 CER103

August 5, 2020 at 9:20 pm

‘We don’t seem to learn’: Beirut explosion echoes US tragedy

Beirut's disaster is what the mayor of West, Texas, saw seven years ago when one of the deadliest fertilizer plant explosions in U.S. history partly...

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August 5, 2020 at 2:30 pm

‘We don’t seem to learn’: Beirut explosion echoes US tragedy

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The staggering videos from the Lebanese capital are grimly familiar to Tommy Muska thousands of miles away in Texas: a towering...

July 31, 2020 at 9:15 am

AP FACT CHECK: Trump distorts Biden’s position on fracking

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump is routinely distorting Democratic rival Joe Biden's policy on fracking as he tries to transform it into a...

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July 28, 2020 at 9:08 pm

Trump downplays West Texas energy worries, attacks Democrats VIEW

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump took sweeping digs at “crazy left radical Democrats” on a trip Wednesday to the fracking fields of West...

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July 27, 2020 at 9:16 pm

Barr, Park Police distance Trump from clearing of protesters WATCH

The House Natural Resources Committee is investigating the use of force — and who directed it — against crowds in the square near the White...

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July 27, 2020 at 8:07 am

Officer challenges account of violent clearing of protesters

The U.S. Park Police and Secret Service violently routed protesters from Lafayette Square last month without apparent provocation or adequate warning, immediately after Attorney General...

July 24, 2020 at 9:14 pm

Trump talks up his rule-cutting, but courts saying otherwise

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is positioning himself as a champion regulation-cutter in the leadup to the Nov. 3 election, but in between his...

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July 22, 2020 at 11:40 am

US says it will adopt global climate standards for aviation

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it plans to adopt aircraft emissions standards modeled on international ones, a move it says will not further reduce...

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Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks in Dunmore, Penn., July 9, 2020. Biden has assailed President Donald Trump’s pandemic response and sought to shore up his left flank. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times) XNYT22 XNYT22

July 14, 2020 at 8:32 am

Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan aims to reframe debate WATCH

The plan emphasizes updating the nation's infrastructure, and includes investments in improving energy efficiency in buildings and housing as well as promoting production of electric...

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July 5, 2020 at 5:35 am

Trump Cabinet members look to reassure battleground voters

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tromped through a strawberry festival in central Florida, detailing the government's new trade pact. Secretary of...