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Inside the complex effort to rid Maui of toxic fire debris and rubble
by Reis Thebault on September 25, 2023 at 10:00 am
Workers and equipment are being shipped to the island while officials plot how to carefully but quickly remove hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic debris.
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He needed a hobby. A metal detector led him to ancient Norwegian gold.
by Daniel Wu on September 25, 2023 at 3:32 am
A Norwegian hobbyist with a metal detector discovered several gold pendants that dated back to the Nordic Iron Age. Experts called it the “find of the century.”
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Black student sues governor after school suspended him for his hair
by Brittany Shammas, Kim Bellware on September 24, 2023 at 8:27 pm
The family of Darryl George, a Black student suspended over his locs, argues in a lawsuit that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) hasn’t enforced the Crown Act.
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After Florida restricts Black history, churches step up to teach it
by Brittany Shammas on September 24, 2023 at 10:00 am
More than 260 houses of worship have signed onto the effort. “We don’t want to whitewash anything,” one organizer says. “We want to tell the truth.”
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Ophelia causes widespread flooding as storm marches up East Coast
by Lenny Bernstein, Matthew Cappucci, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Justine McDaniel on September 24, 2023 at 1:53 am
About 12 hours after making landfall with near-hurricane-force winds, Ophelia was downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression.
