Going paperless has an obvious, visible benefit to the environment.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is expected to be taken down on Wednesday as a symbol of racial injustice, more than 130 years after it was erected in tribute to the South’s Civil War leader.

HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — President Joe Biden focused on long-term fixes as well as short-term relief Tuesday as he headed for tours of parts of the Northeast that suffered deadly flash flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted the Supreme Court's decision not to block a new Texas law banning most abortions in the state and directed federal agencies to do what they can to “insulate women and providers” from the impact.

DETROIT (AP) — The global shortage of computer chips is getting worse, forcing automakers to temporarily close factories including those that build popular pickup trucks.

Natural and some man-made ingredients came together, causing the weakened but still soggy remnants of Hurricane Ida to devastate the Northeast more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away from its landfall.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, for now stripping most women of the right to an abortion in the nation’s second-largest state.

NEW YORK (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over the tri-state area, with at least nine deaths linked to flooding in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania as basement apartments suddenly filled with water and freeways and boulevards turned into rivers, submerging cars.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters reported progress Wednesday in the battle to save communities on the south end of Lake Tahoe from an approaching forest fire after the stiff winds they had feared failed to materialize in the California-Nevada alpine region.

A Texas law banning most abortions in the state took effect at midnight, but the Supreme Court has yet to act on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold.

A federal judge has reversed a Trump-era rule that allowed pollution in streams, wetlands, and marshes across the country without environmental permitting.

Researchers found that in a scenario in which an entire population drank bottled water, the impact on natural resources would be 3,500 times greater than if the same population only drank tap water.

According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 78% of Minnesota is experiencing drought.

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House gave final approval Tuesday to a sweeping rewrite of the state’s election laws, pushing the bill to the cusp of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott desk and inching Democrats toward a bruising defeat in a monthslong, bitter fight over voting rights.

BEIJING (AP) — China is banning children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, the harshest restriction so far on the game industry as Chinese regulators continue cracking down on the technology sector.

A 25-year experiment in Guatemala put local communities in charge of managing forests — watch how that decision helped decrease deforestation rates.