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Lahaina family finds cherished heirlooms and devastation …

Michael Vierra holds his grandfather's gun found in the rubble of their house on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Vierra's grandfather worked as a Maui police officer in Lahaina during the 1940s to 1970s. The family is among the couple dozens able to return to their property in Zone 1-C. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

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Here’s when your favorite show may return now that the …

FILE - Picketers carry signs outside Amazon Studios in Culver City, Calif. on Monday, July 17, 2023. A tentative agreement between striking screenwriters and Hollywood studios offers some hope that the industry’s dual strikes may be over soon. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

With spying charges behind him, NYPD officer now fighting …

FILE - Baimadajie Angwang is interviewed at the Law Office of John F. Carman, Esq., Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in Garden City, N.Y. Angwang, a suspended New York City police officer who had been accused -- then later cleared -- of spying for China is fighting to be reinstated, but the department wants him fired for refusing to be interrogated by the bureau of internal affairs exploring possible disciplinary action. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Louisiana’s struggle with influx of salt water prompts …

In this aerial photo, a tugboat pushing barges navigates between and around sandbars during low water levels on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge, La., and Reserve, La., in Livingston Parish, La., Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

California governor signs law raising taxes on guns and …

California Governor Gavin Newsom shakes hands with Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, D-Los Angeles County, third from left, after signing Gabriel's bill that raises taxes on guns and ammunition, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Less-redacted report on Maryland church abuse still redacts …

FILE - Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown comments about releasing the redacted report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore on April 6, 2023, in Baltimore. Brown released some previously redacted names in its staggering report on child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun via AP, File)

Delaware trooper facing felony charges involving assaults …

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Jill Biden unveils dedicated showcase of art by military …

Artwork by military children decorates a display in the East Colonnade of the East Wing at the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, in Washington. First lady Jill Biden on Tuesday announced the Military Children's Corner at the White House, an installation that will feature art dedicated to America's military children. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Supreme Court will let Alabama’s congressional …

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court, June 8, 2020, in Washington. The Supreme Court is allowing work to proceed on a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters, rejecting the state’s plea to retain Republican-drawn lines struck down by a lower court. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Not again. Federal workers who’ve weathered past …

FILE - Doors at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building are locked and covered with blinds as a sign posted advises that the office will be closed during the partial government shutdown Jan. 16, 2019, in Seattle. The federal government is heading toward a shutdown that will disrupt many services, squeeze workers and roil politics. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

A new battery recycling facility will deepen Kentucky’s …

This undated photo provided by Ascend Elements shows team members loading used electric vehicle battery modules onto a massive shredder at the Ascend Elements battery recycling facility in Covington, Ga. A recycling facility will be built in Hopkinsville, Ky., to shred electric vehicle batteries in a $65 million venture between American and South Korean companies — Ascend Elements and SK ecoplant, respectively — that will supply material for a separate battery-related operation in the same town, the companies announced Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (Ascend Elements via AP)

Brazil slows Amazon deforestation, but in Chico Mendes’ …

Luzineide Marques da Silva, a rubber tapper, talks near a damaged rubber tree in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, in Xapuri, Acre state, Brazil, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. Recently some of her forest plot were destroyed by a fire started by a land-grabber encroaching on her territory. (AP Photo/Gleilson Miranda)

WNBA player Chiney Ogwumike named to President Biden’s …

FILE - Los Angeles Sparks forward Chiney Ogwumike (13) celebrates after a three-pointer during the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Phoenix Mercury in Los Angeles, Friday, May 19, 2023. Ogwumike has always been passionate about her Nigerian heritage. Now she's getting a chance to help all of Africa as a member of the inaugural President's Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States, the White House announced Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Leaf-peeping social media users are clogging a Vermont …

Cars line a narrow road outside a private property in an undated photo, in Pomfret, Vt., that has become a destination for fall foliage viewers, clogging the rural road. The town is closing the road to leaf peepers through mid-October 2023 because it says the increased traffic has caused significant safety, environmental, aesthetic, and quality of life issues. (AP Photo)