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India forecast hotter-than-usual temperatures over the coming months, raising the risk of water shortages, crop damages and higher coal use to avoid power blackouts in the planet’s most populous nation.

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North Idaho College has exactly one year left to return to good standing, or it will lose accreditation per federal rules. A final report this fall could be its last chance.

What difference does it make when we’re indifferent? A whole lot! Sometimes that difference is negative, sometimes positive.

The Union Pacific’s last steam-powered locomotive was making a grand tour of the West, on the way to its destination as an exhibit at Expo ’74.

Here’s a rundown of roadwork that could affect Spokane drivers this week.

Although it took hundreds of architects, engineers, designers and builders to create Expo ’74, the artistic vision of artist Harold Balazs was everywhere at the world’s fair.

In a Pittsburgh hospital in the early 1980s, Charles Rinaldo saw a young, previously healthy gay man critically ill with a virus usually only seen in weakened immune systems. Around the same time, Jeffrey Toth was hearing terms like "the gay cancer" and "gay related immune deficiency" — and watching players in his gay softball league get mysteriously ill.

Spokane County work crews will resume construction of the final stretch of the Bigelow Gulch-Forker Road Urban Connector on Monday, bringing a nearly quarter-century and $81 million effort to a close.

The Idaho House of Representatives voted 53-15 on Friday to pass a new immigration bill that includes lengthy passages that were copied and pasted word-for-word from a controversial Texas law that is tied up in legal challenges.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will undergo surgery Sunday night to treat a hernia, his office said in a statement. The operation comes at a time when Netanyahu is under mounting pressure as the war in the Gaza Strip drags on and international calls for a cease-fire grow louder.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Maryland Democrats on Sunday urged Congress to authorize additional federal dollars needed to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore after it collapsed last week.

ROME – Speaking to tens of thousands of followers in St. Peter’s Square, and millions more across the globe, Pope Francis gave a solemn accounting of a world in crisis Sunday, using the pulpit of his Easter address to renew calls for a cease-fire in Gaza while drawing attention to other conflicts, from Ukraine to Haiti, heightened risks of famine, the threat of climate change and the plight of migrants.

Russia hit energy facilities in Ukraine’s south and the far west on Sunday as it continues almost daily drone and missile barrages, local authorities said.

King Charles III attended the Easter church service Sunday at Windsor Castle with Queen Camilla, later greeting well-wishers who had turned out to see his first significant public appearance since disclosing last month that he has cancer.

A fifth-grade class in Sprague, Washington, came up with the cleverest – and most environmentally responsible – way to earn money for Expo ’74 tickets.

As skiers glide down the slopes of British Columbia’s Whistler Mountain and ice fishers drop their lines into frozen lakes in Alberta, dozens of the fires whose smoke darkened North America’s skies last year are still burning - with some smoldering beneath layers of snow.

Washington has a new law on elections that once would have seemed unnecessary.

At Dan’s Barbershop, the mint-green barber chairs hold removable pans for cigarette ashes.