The Shell chemical plant east of Houston that caught fire on Friday had a record of 1,946 environmental violations over the past decade, according to state records. Of these violations, 95 at the Shell Deer Park Chemicals plant are still considered “active,” meaning the company has not yet resolved the problem, according to the records of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). These violations include the company’s failure to properly control gases venting from its equipment. Others had to do with paperwork problems, including “failure to provide documentation to evaluate compliance.”

turns out this species of spinosaurid was basically a huge pelican!

A man was serving a 77-year prison sentence when he was released with help from the Korey Wise Innocence Project. The team representing 43-year-old Jason Hogan anxiously awaited his release Tuesday from the Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City. “Jason was almost exclusively convicted on the eye-witness identification of the victim,” Anne-Marie Moyes, director of Korey Wise Innocence Project, said. According to Denver District Attorney Beth McCann, Hogan will be released from prison in Cañon City after being found guilty in 2000 of kidnapping and robbing a woman at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, for which he received a 77-year prison sentence.

Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins have raised concerns over Google's new ZIP and MOV Internet domains, warning that threat actors could use them for phishing attacks and malware delivery.

Twenty-one rivers burst their banks after heavy storms across country cause landslides and submerge villages

The Bulimia Project is an eating disorder awareness group and they asked artificial intelligence tools to produce the “perfect” male and female bodies based on what gets the most engagement on social media. According to their results, the most desirable women have light hair, olive skin, dark eyes and a slim figure, while men are preferred to be tall, dark and handsome.

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The Western Canadian city of Calgary received a special weather alert on Tuesday, warning residents of poor air quality and reduced visibility as tinder-dry weather and shifting winds elevated the risk of spreading wildfires in the oil-producing province of Alberta.

People are destroying bat habitats, bringing us closer to viruses they carry. Reuters pinpoints areas worldwide where a bat-borne disease could infect humanity.

The Turkish government jailed and expelled a team of international observers on hand to monitor election day activity on Sunday.

A city in northern Michigan has a new Mother’s Day memory. A 350-pound bear was in a tree for hours on Sunday before it fell onto a mattress as dozens of people watched in Traverse City. Annette Andersen called it the “best block party ever.” Wildlife experts responded to a call about a black bear in a leafy tree in a residential neighborhood. They fired at least four tranquilizer darts into his butt. The bear fell asleep on a thick limb before finally dropping to the ground by early afternoon. A woman had hauled mattresses from her house to soften its fall. The bear was transported to a wooded area at least 50 miles away.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a man entered the home of President Biden’s national security adviser in the middle of the night roughly two weeks ago without being detected by agents guarding his house, according to three government officials. The unknown man walked into Jake Sullivan’s home at about 3 a.m. one night in late April and Sullivan confronted the individual, instructing him to leave, two of the people briefed on the incident said. There were no signs of forced entry at the home, according to one of the people. Sullivan has a round-the-clock Secret Service detail. But agents stationed outside the house were unaware that an intruder had gotten inside the home, located in the West End neighborhood of Washington, until the man had already left and Sullivan came outside to alert the agents, the two people said. The intruder appeared to be intoxicated and confused about where he was, according to people briefed on the incident. There is no evidence the person knew Sullivan or sought to harm him, they said. In a statement, the Secret Service said it has launched an investigation into the incident and how the intruder accessed Sullivan’s home undetected. The agency said it considered the security breach a matter of significant concern.

Eric Hanushek’s influential arguments on school funding shaped policy for four decades. Has he changed his mind?

When the fellow reporter asked her what the response from her colleagues had been like since her return, though, the conversation took an odd turn. “No, I haven’t been gone,” she said. OK. “You should follow the—I haven’t been gone. I’ve been working.” When asked whether she meant that she’d been working from home, she turned feisty. “No, I’ve been here. I’ve been voting,” she said. “Please. You either know or don’t know.”

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Somerville, Mass., has passed laws granting rights to people in polyamorous relationships — and it’s just getting started.

Shakespeare truthers poison the discourse, just like every other kind of conspiracy theorist.

The housing crisis in the United States isn’t just a crisis of quantity—it’s of quality too.

Saturday's Ward 10 DFL Convention in Minneapolis was supposed to end with a candidate endorsed for city council. Instead, it ended with multiple people in the hospital and police on the scene - and no endorsement.