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Nat-Gas Prices Shake Off Bearish EIA Report

July Nymex natural gas (NGN23 ) on Thursday closed up +0.011 (+0.42%) but remained below Tuesday's 1-month high. Hot weather continues to be a bullish factor for nat-gas prices, with the scorching weather in Texas expected to last into next week and possibly extend to the Southwest. Utilities in Texas...

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Nat-Gas Prices Rally on Continued Scorching Temps in Texas

July Nymex natural gas (NGN23 ) on Wednesday closed up +0.105 (+4.21%) and moved back up towards Tuesday's 1-month high. July nat-gas Wednesday rallied on the continued scorching weather in Texas. Maxar is predicting continued triple-digit temperatures in Texas and that heat could extend to the Southwest, although the 11-15...

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Movie review: Funny, profound 'Asteroid City' feels like movie of the summer

The Southwest meets the celestial — and the stage — in Wes Anderson’s latest ditty “Asteroid City,” in which the auteur brings his singular blend of melancholy charm to a story about the stars, of all kinds.

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Heat wave triggers big storms, power outages in US Southeast, raises wildfire concerns in Southwest

Triple-digit temperatures have prompted severe weather and another round of heat advisories across much of the southern United States

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Review: Wes Anderson's gorgeous 'Asteroid City' is more starry than stellar

"Asteroid City," Wes Anderson's half-irritating, half-intoxicating desert bloom of a movie, unfolds mostly in 1955 in a small Southwest town — a postcard-perfect oasis surrounded by cactuses, red rocks and vast horizons.

Los Angeles Times

Cormac McCarthy, ‘No Country for Old Men’ author, dies at 89

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses.”

Chicago Sun-Times

UK weather: Exact date of mini-heatwave as Brits to bask in 27C scorcher

Met Office forecasters say be warmest in Wales and the Southwest of England this week but, like in the past couple of days, there will be a West-East split in the weather

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The ultimate guide to planning epic stargazing road trips in the US southwest

Explore the U.S. Southwest's best sites for stargazing with our helpful guide. From canyons and valleys to snow-capped mountains and world-class observatories.

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Summer Like Pattern Keeping Northwest Unusually Warm Will Fuel Frequent Thunderstorms In Southwest

A weather pattern will keep a large portion of the northwestern United States warm into the weekend

Zenger

Senate to vote on solar tariffs, prairie bird protections

The Senate is expected to approve a measure Wednesday that would reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S. Lawmakers also will vote late Wednesday on a separate plan to undo…

The Independent UK

Boston’s Jaylen Brown sports custom sneakers paying homage to Mesoamerican ball game

Associated with the ancestors of today's indigenous cultures of what is today Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, the Caribbean, and the US Southwest, the sport bears a clear resemblance to basketball.

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Cities shrink but immigrants help stem population losses

Continuing a pandemic trend, Americans are moving to the South and Southwest and from cities to the suburbs in search of more space and homes they can afford, recent government data indicates.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Drought and flood, California’s double whammy

Just as federal officials were laying out alternative scenarios last week for steep water supply cuts from the Colorado River due to the drying Southwest, California officials were warning that this year’s historic Sierra snowpack could flood much of the state later this year.

Los Angeles Times

The rules governing the Colorado River were made for a ‘previous world’ and the West is now confronting a 21st century nightmare as it runs dry

Fixing the Southwest’s water supply problem will be painful, and the big question might be ‘how to distribute that pain.’

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The Independent UK

Snowmelt leads to heavy flooding from Southwest to Rockies

A rapid spring snowmelt after an unusually wet winter is unleashing flooding from the Southwest to the Rockies, causing residents there and in the Upper Midwest to stock up on sandbags amid surging creeks and rivers

Los Angeles Times

US presents proposals for major water cuts on Colorado River

LOS ANGELES — The federal government on Tuesday laid out two options for preventing the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs from falling to critically low levels, saying it could either impose cuts across the Southwest by following the water-rights priority system or by using an across-the-board percentage.

Zenger

Plume Of Pacific Moisture To Spread Rain, Snow To Northwest

Most of the Southwest will continue to experience dry weather due to a northward bulge in the jet stream.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Nevada can’t shed its ugly past while continuing to exploit Native people and lands

Today, tourists from all over the world flock to Nevada to experience selective amnesia. “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” the slogan goes. But Las Vegas’ culture of forgetting is more than drunken hijinks. The city’s existence depends on forgetting the colonial violence that made the Southwest. Since becoming…

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The Orange County Register

Here’s everything you need to plan a road trip through the beautiful Southwest

SANTA ANA, Calif. — When you’re from California, it’s easy to think that some of the world’s most beautiful and wild, rugged places are close to home. But the reality is that while the Golden State has plenty of incredible scenery to offer, both back in those "Wild West" days…

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Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously thought

Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.

The Independent UK

Officials warn of wildfire risk as Southwest US dries out

Climate experts say the wildfire season might be delayed in some parts of the Southwestern U.S. because of a deluge of winter moisture

WEKU

A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the U.S. How worried should we be?

Pigs and goats likely catch it too. It's been found in humans' noses in the Southwest — and in the air at airports and at chicken farms in Malaysia.

Chicago Sun-Times

18 armed robberies by same people reported on North, West, Southwest sides over last five days

The robberies occurred in the Deering, Ogden, Harrison and Town Hall police districts, with nine robberies reported in Brighton Park over an hour on Saturday.

WEKU

After Hurricane Ian, Fort Myers Beach struggles to become 'a functional paradise'

Nearly every building on the barrier island in Southwest Florida was damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Ian's 15-foot storm surge. It's left the town with almost a clean slate for redevelopment.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vallas, Johnson commit to resurrecting Department of Environment at forum on Southwest Side

At a forum in Pilsen, both mayoral candidates vowed to revive the shuttered agency to improve air, water quality and enforce ordinances to bring polluters into compliance.

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