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Times of India - US News

US - Jul 29, 2026 - Trump announces top civilian honour for teen lifeguard who saved boy at California beach

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In Chicago, workers covered a deadly glass building with tiny white dots, and bird collisions dropped by about 95%

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How new US immigration bill could ease Green Card path for Indian H-1B visa holders - Explained

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US - Jul 29, 2026 - 'I'm an AI engineer, but got laid off': Indian H-1B holder shares job loss story

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A 13-year-old Texas girl was bitten by a barracuda in Turks and Caicos; after a tourniquet and tendon damage, she still plans to become a marine biologist

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'Donate your $1 trillion fortune by 2036': Nobel economist challenges Elon Musk after his 'money won't matter' prediction

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In the 1600s, European settlers carried pigeons to America for human needs; escaped domestic birds later became the street pigeons seen across cities

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A Virginia cockatoo spent about 10 years blind before surgery restored his sight; he became a therapy bird and raised a record $33,674 to win Pet of the Year

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Indian national Amritpal Singh added to FBI's 'Most Wanted' list in drug trafficking case

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In 2026, Trenton's historic Horsman Doll Factory is set to reopen as Foundation Academy Collegiate, a 91,600-square-foot high school campus

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Argentine ants have invaded islands from Hawaii to the Desertas, where researchers documented attacks on seabird nestlings

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In the late 1800s, mallards were introduced to Hawaii, and their descendants are now breeding with the native duck, raising concerns about genetic extinction

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In 1959, Hawaii introduced cattle egrets to eat flies around livestock; they spread across the islands and created unexpected challenges

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In 1959, Boston closed a harbour island dump where underground fires smouldered for years; Big Dig soil later sealed the waste before Spectacle Island reopened as a park in 2006

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A former The North Face founder's historic land donation turned Patagonia's wilderness into one of the world's largest national parks

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An ancient 130-acre California salt marsh was filled, drained and turned into an airfield; a century later, crews removed 230,000 cubic yards of soil to let the tides return

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In 1999, an Oregon engineer spent $100,000 on a retired Boeing 727 and turned it into a home deep in the forest

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In 1912, Japan gifted cherry trees to the US as a symbol of friendship; today, Washington's blossoms face earlier blooms and damaging cold snaps

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After San Francisco Bay agencies acquired 15,000 acres of salt ponds in 2003, restoration began turning them into wetlands where migratory birds returned

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Inside one of America's most active volcanoes: How Pagan Island became home to just two residents

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In 2001, scientists released beetles to fight an invasive tree. Years later, an endangered bird had lost 94% of its habitat along one western river

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A 13-year-old boy was airlifted after a rabid beaver attacked him at a Maryland state park, forcing officials to close the swimming beach

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Trump bans new Chinese robots and power inverters over security fears

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In 1934, this Pennsylvania mountain went from a hawk killing ground to the world's first raptor sanctuary and changed bird conservation forever

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Donald Trump, Zelenskyy discuss Patriot production, Russia peace talks at White House

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Donald Trump, Netanyahu hold 'excellent' White House meeting as Iran differences come into focus

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Gavin Newsom's former aide Ruby Rippey breaks silence on 2007 affair; Kamala Harris advised her to stay silent, California Governor responds through spokesperson

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Why do people claim they crossed over to Canada from the US border by mistake?

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Quote of the day by Kal Penn: "Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being..." - a reminder that you don't have to fit into one identity

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He ran out of water, but not luck: California man's mast broke and phone died; after 30 days alone in the Pacific, a container ship found him 900 miles from Hawaii

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Florida to carry out two executions on same day, first such move in US in nearly a decade

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'If you have no criminal record...' US senator wants Green Card for immigrants after 7 years of residency, gets called out as 'traitor'

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Trump's two-front challenge: Shades of 1914 as Zelenskyy and Netanyahu converge on Washington

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New York City flash floods: Heavy rain triggers warnings, hundreds of flights canceled

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In 1998, an Arizona man secretly cut holes through Tucson's street curbs to steal stormwater. The illegal experiment eventually changed city policy

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The US buried 85,000 cubic metres of nuclear waste beneath a Pacific island. Now the ocean is rising around it

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An American gambler spent $90 million buying 54,000 acres of logged Florida land. Eight million longleaf pines later, a lost forest is returning

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Indian-origin postal worker collapses during shift in Texas, probe announced to find out if it was due to heatwave

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Donald Trump's new warning on Iran: Pickaxe Mountain, other sites could face strikes

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'Sexiest Man Alive': Five big revelations from Dr Anthony Fauci's Covid diary

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In 2012, New York pumped 375,000 cubic yards of harbor sand onto a vanishing Jamaica Bay island; 44 acres of salt marsh returned

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In 1913, Los Angeles began diverting Owens River water, helping dry Owens Lake into a dust-blowing salt flat; controls now cut dust by up to 99% in treated areas

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Las Vegas lost 90% of a 2,000-acre wetland as surging water eroded its banks; weirs and native plantings later cut suspended sediment by 60%

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United States sewers hide $13 million in metals per million residents, including an estimated $2.6 million in gold and silver

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More than 117,000 unplugged orphan oil and gas wells are documented across the US, with abandoned wells estimated to leak up to 281,000 tons of methane a year

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Costa Rica covered a dead pasture with 12,000 tonnes of orange peel. Sixteen years later, scientists found a thriving forest

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In 1901, conservationists began buying land to protect Mount Desert Island; their first 6,000 acres helped create Acadia National Park

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Three underwater drones located WWII's "Ghost Ship of the Pacific" after nearly 80 years, upright 1,067 metres beneath the ocean

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Quote of the day by Kobe Bryant: "I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be..." - a timeless lesson on authenticity, self-belief and creating your own legacy

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California eradicated these 20-pound rodents decades ago; DNA suggests someone deliberately brought them back

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For decades, zinc smelters polluted Pennsylvania's Blue Mountain; crews later used mushroom compost and aircraft seeding to help vegetation return

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In 1990, Congress created a cap-and-trade programme to cut acid-rain pollution from power plants; over decades, SO₂ emissions fell by more than 95%

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In 1982, Missouri discovered an entire town had been sprayed with dioxin-contaminated oil; 265,354 tons were incinerated, and the abandoned town became a state park

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In 1914, Hawaii introduced fountain grass as an ornamental plant; the invasive species now covers around 200,000 acres across Hawaiian Islands and can help wildfires spread across dry land

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From the 1940s, multiflora rose was widely planted as a living fence; the thorny shrub now infests millions of acres across the eastern US

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