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Dust storm, hurricane-force winds tear destructive path across U.S. upper Midwest, article with galleryEnvironment · May 13, 2022 · 8:18 PM UTC
Hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. upper Midwest Thursday evening, sending walls of dust across cities and rural towns, causing widespread property damage and killing at least two people.
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Creaky U.S. power grid threatens progressThe nation’s transmission network needs a trillion-dollar overhaul to handle the Biden administration’s promised clean-energy revolution. No one is taking charge of that problem.
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A three-month-old giraffe at the San Diego Zoo has received a leg brace to correct limb abnormalities.
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