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Cotton Urges Citizens to Forcibly Confront Pro-Palestinian Protesters
The Republican senator from Arkansas said citizens should “take matters into your own hands” against demonstrators who have stepped up their civil disobedience to protest Israel’s offensive in Gaza.
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Road Trips: How to Plan an Accessible Getaway
Planning an accessible road trip is getting a little easier for people with disabilities. There are more resources created by and for the disability community, and the tourism industry is starting to recognize the value of accessible travel. As a ...
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India Ignored Repeated Warnings Before Tunnel Trapped 41 Men
Environmentalists argued that a road project was destabilizing the fragile Himalayan landscape. The government maneuvered to continue it.
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Notes on Going Home
I was irritated as I drove west from Nashville. The sun was in my eyes, and I was holding the steering wheel too tight because the car kept getting buffeted by the winds of trucks passing at an astonishingly illegal speed. At least I’m not heading ...
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Southern California Beyond the Freeway
Perhaps nothing defines Los Angeles like the freeways: ribbons of asphalt and steel (and traffic jams) tying coast, valley and mountains together in a multilane, limited-access web. These highways were considered so essential that planners nearly ...
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The Path to Reducing Pedestrian Deaths Is Steep but Straight
Last year, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association, more than 7,500 pedestrians were killed while walking on U.S. roadways. Between 2010 and 2021, in fact, pedestrian deaths rose 77 percent, from an annual total of 4,302 to 7,624. These ...
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The Little-Known Provision That Could Revolutionize Highway Travel
It’s no small irony that so much federal money is being dedicated in various ways to climate-change projects that will do nothing to curtail Americans’ love of driving or to reduce the costs associated with it. The country’s road system receives much ...
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In Big Sur, Living With Nature’s Beauty but Trapped by Its Fury
ACROSS THE COUNTRY In Big Sur, Living With Nature’s Beauty but Trapped by Its Fury The succession of storms last month that left some residents in that treasured region cut off from the rest of California is another reminder of the perils and ...
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A ‘Big Night’ for Newts, and for a California Newt Brigade
California is experiencing one of its wettest winters in recent history following a series of atmospheric rivers that hit the state in rapid succession. The recent downpours and deluges wreaked havoc on many parts of Northern California. But north of ...
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Bus Crash in Senegal Kills at Least 40
The president of the West African country announced three days of national mourning for the victims.
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