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Firefighters battle fire at Los Angeles International Airport

• Posted on February 19, 2020
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Thursday, June 1, 2006 A fuel storage tank at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) caught fire today. The 1-million gallon storage tank caught fire at about 8:30 a.m. local time (PDT) according to Ron Myers, a spokesman for the LAX fire department. Myers said that planes were not at risk and no flights were cancelled,

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Illinois House impeaches Blagojevich

• Posted on February 18, 2020
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 The Illinois House of Representatives voted to impeach state governor Rod Blagojevich in a near-unanimous 114-to-1 vote with three representatives not voting. Blagojevich is facing charges of attempting to sell the state’s opening for United States Senator when president-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20. The vote will now move

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Male Magellanic penguins pine for pairings: Wikinews interviews biologist Natasha Gownaris

• Posted on February 16, 2020
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Sunday, January 27, 2019 In findings published earlier this month in Ecological Applications, scientists from the University of Washington and Center for Ecosystem Sentinels examine the reason for the plummeting numbers of female Magellanic penguins, Spheniscus magellanicus, that have been reported at the birds’ breeding sites in South America over the past twenty years and

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Salmonella outbreak sickens over one thousand in United States

• Posted on February 14, 2020
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 Over 1000 cases of illness have now been identified in a foodborne salmonellosis outbreak that began in mid-April 2008 in the United States. As of July 8, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 1013 confirmed infections throughout the United States, along with four cases in Canada. 203

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Canada’s Etobicoke Centre (Ward 3) city council candidates speak

• Posted on February 14, 2020
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This exclusive interview features first-hand journalism by a Wikinews reporter. See the collaboration page for more details. Monday, October 30, 2006 On November 13, Torontoians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Etobicoke Centre (Ward 3). One candidate responded to Wikinews’ requests for

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Too Grimm? Mother Goose cartoonist sued by Colombian coffee growers

• Posted on February 13, 2020
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 While it was just a joke, the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia doesn’t find a recent “Mother Goose and Grimm” comic terribly funny. In what the coffee growers association calls “an attack on national dignity and the reputation of Colombian coffee,” the characters in a comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning

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Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam delivers speech on video after protests in legislature

• Posted on February 10, 2020
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Today, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam delivered her annual policy speech. Speaking in the Legislative Council, Lam was interrupted by protesting legislators. The council was adjourned and Lam later delivered the speech via video. This was reportedly the first such occurrence. Lawmakers from the pro-democracy camp shouted at Lam