Officials confirmed that a flight leaving Denver International Airport (DEN) for Los Angeles struck and killed a pedestrian during takeoff on Friday night. Frontier Airlines Flight 4345 was leaving Denver at 11:19 p.m. when it reported striking a pedestrian on Runway 17L, the Federal Aviation Administration said. A spokesperson for DEN told KTLA that there was a brief engine […]

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, the US Forest Service has actively managed public lands to reduce wildfire risks by clearing underbrush and trees, or employing prescribed burns—something Indigenous nations have practiced for centuries. Scientists have generally lauded the ecological benefits of what is also known as “fuel […]

Over the past four days, bettors on the prediction platform Polymarket have wagered nearly $3 million on whether we’ll see a hantavirus pandemic this year. A cluster of cases of a particularly deadly strain of the virus erupted on a cruise ship last month, killing three people out of eight suspected cases linked to the […]

The fate of the president’s economic agenda rests with this “trade nerd.”