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Texas man pardoned over Jan. 6 attack is wanted by prosecutors over 2016 charge

Jan. 29, 2025 18:03 PM EST

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man released from prison under President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is wanted by authorities on a 2016 charge of soliciting a minor online, prosecutors say. Andrew Taake, 36, was accused of attacking...

Trump targets Alaska's oil and other resources as environmentalists gear up for a fight

Jan. 22, 2025 01:02 AM EST

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump's expansive executive order aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political leaders who see new fossil fuel development as critical to Alaska's economic future and criticized by environmental...

Judges allow some Capitol riot defendants to return to DC for Trump's inauguration

Jan. 18, 2025 13:24 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Four years later, some of them are allowed to return to the nation's capital so they can celebrate Trump's return to the White House. At least 20 defendants...

US will keep protecting more than 2,000 Rocky Mountain grizzly bears

Jan. 08, 2025 21:03 PM EST

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it will continue protecting about 2,000 grizzly bears in the Rocky Mountains despite opposition from Republican-led states. Federal officials also said they would ease some restrictions as conflicts between bears and...

Alaska governor asks Trump to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling

Dec. 19, 2024 20:38 PM EST

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s wish list for the incoming Trump administration includes oil and gas exploration in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reversing restrictions on logging and road-building in a temperate rainforest that provides habitat for wolves,...

A hunter in Virginia has died after a bear shot in a tree fell on him

Dec. 17, 2024 11:33 AM EST

LUNENBURG COUNTY, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man has died after a bear in a tree shot by one of his hunting partners fell on him, state wildlife officials said. The incident occurred Dec. 9 in Lunenburg County, which is between Richmond and Danville, Virginia's Department of Wildlife...