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Royal Dutch Shell received its last and most important Arctic oil drilling permit from the federal government on Monday, approval that it can drill into oil-bearing formations in Alaska’s remote Chukchi Sea. The approval by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement follows return of the Fennica, a 380-foot minesweeper that holds the capping stack and other oil spill-prevention gear. The Polar Pioneer, escorted through a blockade of “kayakctivists”, is now drilling for oil in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with rates on six-month bills unchanged, while rates on three-month bills dropped to the lowest level in two weeks. Separately, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages, rose to 0.39 percent last week from 0.36 percent the previous week.

The wireless communications company announced that it will offer iPhone upgrades to its customers anytime as part of their plan. The biotechnology company's potential drug for Staph infections received FDA approval for expedited development and review. The digital marketing company closed a $10 million financing round involving preferred stock with a mutual fund investor.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — State health officials say there are no plans to change a new requirement that middle school students in Rhode Island get the HPV vaccine even though some parents, and now some lawmakers, have expressed concerns. "The Department of Health should not have the control to make these decisions for our children," said Shawna Lawton, a spokeswoman for Rhode Islanders Against Mandated HPV Vaccinations, whose private Facebook group has about 2,300 members. State health department... Читать дальше...

A 20-year-old Seattle man accused of gunning down another young man in South Seattle has been charged with first-degree murder.

With as many as 70 oil trains rumbling across Pennsylvania each week, the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday released a series of recommendations meant to reduce the risk of a catastrophic derailment, including reduced speeds through cities, beefed-up track inspections and a call for trackside communities to plan for an emergency. Zarembski's report, released Monday, contains 27 recommendations, primarily focused on inspection and maintenance of tracks and equipment, routing, speed and emergency planning. Читать дальше...

An adjoining plant that employs about 700 people will continue making steel pipe, the company said, and construction of an electric arc furnace will continue on the property. The domestic steel industry has been buffeted for years by low prices and foreign imports. "In particular, China has repeatedly violated international trade rules to bolster its state-owned industry while dumping its products into our market, and American workers have already paid the price," union president Leo W. Gerard said in a statement. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A college student in Vermont is living in a 96-square-foot house he built to reduce his carbon footprint — and save money. A rocket mass heater built from a cast-iron stove insulated with a mixture of clay, sand and straw allows for cooking and heating.

Since the All-Star break, the Seattle Mariners’ offense has morphed into the high-powered group general manager Jack Zduriencik envisioned when he signed reigning home run king Nelson Cruz over the offseason. The bulk of the credit goes to Cruz, who has 15 home runs, 21 RBIs and a .359 batting average in 28 games since the Midsummer Classic. However, the rest of the lineup has produced at a high clip as well, helping the Mariners post a .789 OPS (on-base plus slugging), tops in Major League Baseball during that span. Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A short, sharp earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday, breaking picture frames and cracking plaster without prompting reports of injuries or major damage. Bay Area Rapid Transit held commuter trains for about five minutes and there were minor delays as crews checked the tracks. Monday's quake came just one week before the one-year anniversary of the magnitude-6.0 earthquake that caused millions of dollars in damage and injured hundreds of people in California wine country.

Carson Smith suffered another blown save yesterday, his 3rd of the year. As of mid-July, Smith was a nearly unhittable force of nature. His swerving, tumbling sinker and big slider combined to make life exceedingly difficult on lefties as well as right...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists might have found a new way to tell who's at risk of having a premature baby, by checking the bacterial community that lives in mom's reproductive tract. Researchers at Stanford University tracked some of those microbial neighborhoods week by week through 49 healthy women's pregnancies — and found those who went into preterm labor harbored a different pattern of vaginal bacteria than the other moms-to-be. If the research pans out, it raises the possibility of one day... Читать дальше...

DETROIT (AP) — The government is investigating reports of headlight failure in older Ford and Mercury sedans. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says Ford has received 3,092 complaints of headlight failure on Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis sedans from the 2003-2005 model years.

PARIS (AP) — Indian budget airline IndiGo finalized an exceptionally large order for 250 single-aisle Airbus A320neo jets on Monday to keep up with rapid growth in the country's air travel. Several Asian low-cost carriers are building up fleets amid growing demand, and both Airbus and rival Boeing Co. have been wooing Indian airline companies. India is expected to become the third largest aviation market globally by 2020, with the number of airline passengers tripling to some 450 million trips per year... Читать дальше...

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) — An archaeological dig at an 18th-century military site in the southern Adirondacks has uncovered large sections of stone walls that are believed to have been constructed within a larger British fortification that was never completed more than 250 years ago. During the six-week summer field school sponsored by the nearby State University of New York at Adirondack, about four dozen volunteers and students dug numerous pits in an area that was occupied by thousands of British... Читать дальше...

One of the things that got pounded into my brain when I attended culinary school was the idea of multitasking and prepping to cut down on time and have ingredients on hand when you need them. Whether that means roasting two chicken breasts rather than one, stacking vegetables together to spend less time cutting or melting butter in the oven while it’s pre-heating in order to use one less pan, the small things you save time on really can add up to big savings. A favorite trick I have – or “food hack” as it’s currently trendy to call it ... Читать дальше...

BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — Blue Bell Creameries will resume distributing ice cream to select markets in Texas and Alabama this month after halting sales and production following listeria contamination. The Blue Bell production facility in Sylacauga (sihl-uh-KAW'-guh), Alabama, began producing ice cream in July.

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Federal transportation officials say the U.S. 301 toll road in project in southern New Castle County from the Maryland-Delaware line to State Route 1 is eligible for federal funding.

DETROIT (AP) — Most victims of General Motors' faulty ignition switches have accepted compensation offers from the company. GM's compensation fund has finished processing all of the claims it received.

Renu Khator, chairman of the Dallas bank's board of directors, said in a statement that Kaplan was selected because he had "the right combination of leadership skills, business experience and public-service mindset." Fisher was a well-known "hawk," the term used for Fed officials who favor higher interest rates to guard against inflation threats. All 12 regional Fed presidents participate in the discussions on interest rates, with five holding votes each year on a rotating basis.

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington offensive lineman Dexter Charles has retired due to a lingering knee injury, a significant blow to an already thin offensive line. Charles had started 30 games over the past three seasons — most of them at left guard — and was the only full-time starter on the offensive line returning from last season.

In an interview in April, Lyudmila Savchuk told The Associated Press how she and hundreds of colleagues in St. Petersburg managed several social media accounts, flooding the Internet with pro-Putin commentary and doctored images that landed on Russian and Western news websites. In her lawsuit, Savchuk sought moral damages, compensation of unpaid wages and demanded the closure of the company, Internet Research, saying its employees didn't have proper Russian employment contracts.

PARIS (AP) — France will reduce its search efforts for debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after a 10-day search of the beaches and coastal waters off Reunion island in the Indian Ocean has turned up nothing new, authorities said Monday. Over the past 10 days, searchers scoured nearly 4,000 square miles (10,360 square kilometers) of ocean using a plane, helicopters and a ship, but found "nothing suspected of having any connection to a plane," local authorities said in a statement.

Crews will close both directions of state Route between the south end of the Battery Street Tunnel and Valley Street on Friday night through Monday morning.