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Wreckage of a US Coast Guard ship lost during WWI has been found off the coast of England

MIAMI (AP) — The wreckage of a U. S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, was been discovered off the coast of England. The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that the USCGC Tampa was found about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom, at a depth exceeding 300 feet (90 meters) deep in the Atlantic Ocean. The cutter's wreckage was located and confirmed by the British technical-diving team Gasperados. Adm. Kevin Lunday, of a...

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FEMA workers who sounded alarm over nations disaster preparedness reinstated after 8 months

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved to address staffing issues that triggered concern and uncertainty among and about its workforce, including reinstating employees put on leave for publicly opposing agency policies, and extending contracts for some workers whose terms were set to expire soon. Fourteen FEMA employees who signed a public letter of dissent last August sounding alarms about the nation's disaster preparedness were reinstated after being put on paid administrative for...

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J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, died Wednesday. He was 79. Venter’s death was announced by the J. Craig Venter Institute, a genomics research group with locations in La Jolla, California, and Rockville, Maryland. The institute said he died in San Diego after being hospitalized for side effects from a recent cancer treatment. In the 1990s Venter bet that he could use a different sequencing technique to...

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