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The US is warning about Serbian military forces on the border with Kosovo. The US asking Serbia to pull its forces back... Six are dead and 15 others trapped in a mine collapse in Zimbabwe... A State of Emergency due to flash flooding in New York State including New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley... The United Auto Workers expanding its strike against automakers... "They're terrified of my family and I" Ammon Bundy speaking about the continuing legal efforts to seize his assets following the "defamation" suit against him and why a "defamation" trial was recently conducted against...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Monday night, Albuquerque city councilors’ motion to override the mayor’s veto of the Clean and Green Retail Ordinance passed on a 6-3 vote. The city’s plastic bag ban will be lifted.

The Trudeau government will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021, CBC News has learned from a government source. Plastic straws, cotton swabs, drink stirrers, plates, cutlery and balloon sticks are just some of the single-use plastics that will be banned in Canada, according to the source. This is part of a larger strategy to tackle the plastic pollution problem that the government is expected to announce Monday.

LOS ANGELES – "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" Groucho Marx sang in a 1932 picture filmed on the Paramount lot here. Today's Southern Californians seem to agree. Once know for its sunny, freewheeling disposition, this region has long been as regulated as anywhere. Lately, however, cities, school districts and even libraries have been outlawing chunks of what used to pass for birthright at a startling clip. Bonfires on the beach? Sorry, Gidget: Newport Beach is waiting for permission from the California Coastal Commission to remove its long-cherished fire pits, which it banned this summer as health hazards. Newport's fleet...