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Covers:  Climate, Science, Technology, Labor, Books
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The End of the Aqueduct Racetrack

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By Rebecca McCarthy Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
“Girls have luck,” Joey Monaco, a devoted bettor, said. Girls—women, he clarified, particularly those who aren’t gamblers—have luck. We were sitting at Silks, a bar on the ground floor of the Aqueduct Racetrack, in southern Queens, a windowless little hole-in-the-wall anchoring a building that resembles a baseball stadium disintegrating into a bus depot.
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Kirkby police incident: 'Body found in road' as officers swarm UK street

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By Patrick Edrich, Rebecca McCarthy Verified, Zahra Khaliq Verified
| MSN UK Verified
Police have launched a probe after a man in his 30s was found dead on a residential street in Liverpool Merseyside Police said he was discovered on Kersey Road in Kirkby at around 12.50pm today. Officers are currently treating the death as "unexplained". Witnesses described seeing a man "lying on the floor" before a cordon and a number of white tents were erected at the scene.
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State of solar strong in Colorado and across nation

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By Rebecca McCarthy Verified, Kate Yoder Verified
| Kiowa County Press Verified
© Eyematrix - iStock-453911335 Discover more Breaking news alerts National news podcast Daily news updates (Colorado News Connection) The future looked dire for renewable energy in the United States last spring. Republicans in Congress started gutting the Inflation Reduction Act, forcing its generous tax credits for wind and solar into an early retirement. The Interior Department then rolled out a series of byzantine regulations aimed at restricting clean energy on federal land.
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