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A worker carries used drink bottles and cans for recycling at a collection point in Brooklyn, New York. Three decades of recycling have so far failed to reduce what we throw away, especially plastics.

We never got good at recycling plastic. Some states are trying a new approach

New York is the latest, and largest, state to consider charging product-makers to dispose of their packaging. But lawmakers are clashing over how much to involve industry in creating a new system.

Michigan State Police were called in to keep auto accident survivors out of House Speaker Jason Wentworth's office at the Capitol.

Republican lawmaker whose members walked out of her committee hearing over a no-fault bill says she's not giving up

Republican Daire Rendon is defying the party line on auto no-fault, but she says she needs others in her party to do the same.

Migrants are seated, after crossing the border from Belarus into Poland in the village of Usnarz Gorny, Poland, in September. An estimated 16,000 migrants have been stopped by Poland's border patrol for illegally crossing the country's 250-mile-long border with Belarus since August.

The EU accuses Belarus of luring global migrants into other European countries

Poland has stopped some 16,000 migrants crossing its border from Belarus since August, and accuses Belarus' authoritarian regime of facilitating illegal migration into the European Union.

This heroic dog traversed the interstate to lead police to her injured owner

What started as a report of a dog loose on the highway ended with the timely rescue of two injured humans. One-year-old Tinsley, a Shiloh Shepherd, is getting praise and extra treats for her heroism.

Elena Mendoza, 18, grieves in front of a cross honoring her cousin, Amerie Jo Garza, one of the victims killed in this week's elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, May 26, 2022.

The evolving narrative of what happened at Uvalde the day of the shooting

Law enforcement is still investigating the shooting at Robb Elementary School. But accounts from officials have offered a confusing look at the timeline of Tuesday's shooting.

'I don't think about the dance floor': Jlin's complicated rhythms

Electronic composer Jlin warps percussion and other-worldly sounds into a fascinating, challenging collage. On a new album, she also gets a bit more... straightforward.

Stateside: Weiser apologizes, the women of Michigan lighthouses, and writers reflect on the pandemic

Today, on Stateside, winds change for the Michigan GOP leader who called the state’s top three elected officials witches. Plus, stories about the women…

Men repair their truck in smoke from a forest fire on a road near Magaras, in the republic of Sakha, Siberia, in July.

The Arctic has a new record high temperature, according to the U.N.

The 38 degree Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) reading in Russian Siberia in June of last year should "sound alarm bells about our changing climate," the World Meteorological Organization says.

elderly person in wheelchair holding hands with another person

GOP-sponsored budget bill would encourage nursing home investigations

Democrats are blasting a Republican-backed budget bill that would give local prosecutors money to investigate Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID-19…

Neighborhoods are separated by barriers as part of lockdown measures in Shanghai to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant.

Voices from Shanghai: The trials of living through a massive COVID lockdown

China's lockdown and quarantine policy is testing the limits of the city of 26 million. Parents were separated from kids. And there's not enough staff for the elderly residents of care centers.

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