Hegseth order allows troops to carry personal firearms on military bases

Off-duty service members will now be allowed to carry privately owned firearms for their personal protection on U.S. military property, per an order War Secretary Pete Hegseth signed Thursday. “The memo I’m signing today directs installation commanders to allow requests for personal protection to carry a privately owned firearm with the presumption that it is […]

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The Western US is already running out of water — and summer is still months away

A section of the Central Arizona Project, a series of aqueducts and tunnels designed to bring water from the Colorado River to Arizona, runs through a subdivision in Gilbert, Arizona. | Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg/Getty Images This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Officials were already sounding the alarm bells in early March across the Western United States after a winter with historically low snowpacks, which

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Gas prices: Slight increase at the pumps to end the week

Gas prices continue to show no sign of slowing, as the national average for regular gas increased again on Friday to $4.091 per gallon, according to AAA. It was the fifth consecutive day of increases at the pumps, albeit the one with the smallest rise from the prior day. Friday’s national average was one cent […]

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