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Kim Mann/Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, https://www.fws.gov/media/suckleys-cuckoo-bumble-bee-flowerThe Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee has a unique life cycle. Like cuckoo birds, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species instead of rearing their own young.
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Officials have issued evacuation orders for residents in the town of Greer and elsewhere because of a fast-moving, wind-driven wildfire that started Tuesday amid 50 mile-per-hour gusts.
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The editor of a Show Low online news outlet is charged with two felonies after authorities say she made several fake social media posts about the case of missing teen Jarrett Brooks.
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A federal judge in Phoenix has temporarily halted transferring the Indigenous sacred site Oak Flat to a copper mining company.
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the Flagstaff home where the first Arizona flag was sewn as one of the most endangered places in the U.S.
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Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed a bill that bars protestors and others from setting up encampments at state universities following last year's wave of pro-Palestinian protests on Arizona campuses.
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West Virginia’s Dan Green and Colorado’s Rachel Entrekin each set new course records Wednesday in their respective wins of the Cocodona 250 ultrarunning event.
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Nearly 15% of Coconino County’s budget comes from the federal government but officials are unsure just how reliable that money will be as they draw up next year’s budget.
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Monarch Butterflies fly thousands of miles every year between their southern overwintering grounds as far north as Canada and back.
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State lawmakers voted Monday to require hospitals to inquire whether patients are in the U.S. illegally despite concerns that it would deter some people from seeking care.
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The reality star and business mogul appeared in a courtroom Tuesday to testify about the night in 2016 when masked men tied her up at gunpoint and stole more than $6 million in jewelry.
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Duterte's youngest son, Sebastian, the incumbent mayor of Davao, was declared Davao vice mayor. His eldest son, Paolo, was reelected as a member of the House of Representatives, and two grandsons won in local races, an indication of the family's continued influence.
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Casandra "Cassie" Ventura, the ex-girlfriend of Sean "Diddy" Combs, took the stand on Tuesday as the star witness in the first full day of testimony in the federal trial against the hip-hop mogul.
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Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky explains why he and other Democrats are sounding the alarm over a Republican Medicaid proposal they say will leave millions of people without health care.
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Pope Leo XIV and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy spoke by phone recently, according to the Vatican.
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