Amazon's push for small modular nuclear reactors is just the latest development in decadeslong fight over nuclear energy.

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The next stop in former President Jimmy Carter's six days of funeral services is Washington, D.C., where he will lie in state ...

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Thousands of health care workers at Providence hospitals and clinics in Oregon are planning to go on strike Jan. 10.

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Oregon, California, New Mexico and Arizona now allow government-run insurance programs to cover Native American healing ...

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