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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
Ukrainians arrive in Anchorage, with hundreds more expected in coming weeks
The United Nations estimates that more than six million Ukrainians have been displaced since Russia invaded earlier this year.
36 years after ousting Marcos, Filipinos elect son as president
The dictator’s son mounted a strong comeback from a 2016 defeat, bringing jubilation to loyalists and wounding a generation that ousted his father.
The Biden administration is working to ease the ongoing shortage of baby formula
During the first week of May, the average out-of-stock rate for baby formula at retailers across the country was 43%.
What would overturning Roe mean for birth control?
Overturning Roe v. Wade could threaten birth control and other care, experts say.
The Biden administration is capping the cost of internet for low-income Americans
The Affordable Connectivity Program will provide plans of at least 100 Megabits per second of speed for no more than $30. An estimated 48 million Americans will qualify.
Up until last day of campaigning, Duterte does not endorse Marcos for president
President Rodrigo Duterte is a no-show at the final rally of Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his daughter Sara Duterte.
As Filipinos head to the polls, some voters in Alaska bet on a political dynasty
Hundreds of voters in the Philippine national elections will be waiting for the results in Alaska. And some hope the outcome makes way for a return to the past.
Climate scientists say South Asia’s heat wave (120F!) is a sign of what’s to come
More than a billion people are at risk of heat-related illness across South Asia, and hospitals are preparing special wards.