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2 days ago | arcamax.com | Alan Halaly

Nevada’s biggest cities and counties must now incorporate protective heat measures into urban planning because of a newly signed law. In a win for environmental groups, Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, signed Assembly Bill 96 following the veto of a similar bill in the 2023 legislative session. At the time, he suggested there was a lack of evidence of development leading to higher temperatures, and he raised concerns about how such a bill could raise costs for local governments.

2 days ago | arcamax.com | Maya Rao

MINNEAPOLIS — Abdul Saboor Qaderi finally escaped Afghanistan with his family last fall, but building a new life in Minnesota has brought a new array of hardships for the college-educated father of five. Federal funding has dried up to aid Afghans who, like Qaderi, helped American forces during the war. The government no longer pays for their airfare, or links them with agencies that can help them find housing, jobs and other services during their early months in America.

2 days ago | arcamax.com | Rick Sobey

BOSTON — As white sharks return to the Cape, researchers are helping the public chomp on shark hotspot data from last summer and fall. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s “White Shark Logbook” has been updated with last year’s acoustic detection data of tagged apex predators. More than 100 individual sharks were detected along the Cape last year — resulting in nearly 170,000 total detections at the scientist’s receivers. So where were the top shark hotspots last year?

2 days ago | arcamax.com | Ilyce Glink |Samuel J. Tamkin

Reader comment: Recently I came across an old column of yours regarding a sibling squabble. One sibling sought your advice regarding suing the other for reimbursement. I thought your advice was quite sound. I have been in a similar situation, ate my losses and moved on. I have also been to small claims court twice. Once to recover back rent from a tenant and on another occasion to recover funds paid for goods that were never delivered.

3 days ago | arcamax.com | Hadriana Lowenkron |Josh Wingrove

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation that bans individuals from 12 countries from entering the United States, reinstating one of the most controversial and defining measures from his first term in the wake of an attack in Boulder, Colorado, that targeted a march in support of Israeli hostages. The second-term travel ban covers Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.