Fetterman holding first public campaign event since stroke

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman will hold a Senate campaign rally on Aug. 12, his first event since suffering a stroke shortly before his May victory in the Democratic primary. Fetterman’s campaign rally will be held in Erie County, located in the northwestern corner of the state.  “Erie County is Pennsylvania’s most important bellwether county,” Fetterman said in a release. “I’ve visited Erie dozens and dozens of times in the past, and I am honored and proud to be returning to the campaign trail here.”  Fetterman

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Exposure to wildfire pollution contributes to negative health effects in children

Story at a glance As wildfires become more frequent and intense thanks to climate change, concern is mounting over the negative health effects of resulting increased air pollution. A new study of blood serum collected from healthy children shows those exposed to higher levels of fine particulate matter are at increased risk of negative health outcomes.

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Former WWE star Glenn ‘Kane’ Jacobs wins second term as mayor in Tennessee county

Glenn Jacobs, a former WWE wrestler known during his career as “Kane,” won reelection to a second term as mayor of Knox County, Tenn., on Thursday.  Jacobs (R) defeated his Democratic opponent, labor organizer Debbie Helsley, with about 55 percent of the vote. Jacobs has branded himself as a libertarian and opposed COVID-19 restrictions like mask mandates as mayor, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.  Knox County is the third most populous in the

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Fires put California’s forest offset program at risk of collapse

Wildfires are threatening to wreck a key part of California’s climate mitigation plans: the trading of carbon “offsets” pulled from the atmosphere into the state’s forests, a new study has found. The ravages of destructive fire have destroyed enough of the state’s “buffer pool” of forests that California’s offset programs are at risk of insolvency, according to a study published on Friday in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. The findings call into question the use of forest-based finan

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Texas woman charged with holding 17 immigrants hostage in home

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