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New Interior Secretary Zinke sets sights on balance

It might not be long before the inscription atop Yellowstone National Park’s iconic Roosevelt Arch is posted in Ryan Zinke’s new digs.

 

Scientists find clues to pancreatic cancer treatment

MELVILLE, N.Y. (TNS) — A dense enclosure of tissue surrounding pancreatic tumors has long made the cancer difficult to treat, but a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has unraveled the mystery of the inviolable barrier, possibly opening…

 

Is Yucca Mountain once again America’s nuclear waste dump?

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Thirty years after Nevada’s Yucca Mountain was designated as America’s only dumping ground for nuclear waste, not a single isotope has been sent there.

 

Sessions’ denial of talks with Russians was untrue, but was it perjury?

Contrary to what he told Congress at his confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions did indeed “have communications with the Russians” when he was a top Trump campaign adviser on national security.

 

Analysis: How rank-and-file Republicans overruled Trump on Sessions recusal

WASHINGTON (TNS) — On “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump told winning contestants, “You’re hired.” But it was congressional Republican lawmakers who overruled the new president and told Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “You’re relieved.”

 

Koch group warns of ‘boondoggle’ in Trump public-works plan

An influential conservative group backed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is questioning a plan to spend $1 trillion on the nation’s infrastructure and warning that one of President Donald Trump’s signature policy initiatives could become a “spending boondoggle.”

 

Committee hears initial plans for La Crosse Center upgrades

Initial plans for upgrades to the La Crosse Center were introduced to the Common Council’s Finance and Personnel Committee during a special meeting Thursday night.

 

Racine Police investigate IHOP fight caught on camera

RACINE — Racine police are investigating a weekend melee at the International House of Pancakes, 5800 Durand Ave., that was captured on multiple cellphone videos and is now going viral on social media.

 

Would a new world accord make the lawless internet safe again?

SAN FRANCISCO (TNS) — In a few years, if you enter all available facts into a super computer and ask it how to make the internet secure, information security expert Adi Shamir predicts this is how the computer will respond:

 

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