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Ilona Biliaze plays with her 7-month-old son Brian in their Watertown home on May 12, 2025. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)

South Dakota Searchlight

‘This is our home’: Ukrainians settled in SD fear they’ll be forced to leave

Mike Phillips, Jim Evanoff, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Director Mollie Beattie, Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Mike Finley and U.S. Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt carry the first crate with a wolf in it to the Crystal Bench Pen in Yellowstone National Park in January 1995. (Photo courtesy of Yellowstone National Park)

Idaho Capital Sun

Carter’s Hope: After U.S. government killed off Western wolves, a bold experiment brought them back

About 10% to 20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says it is difficult to determine the cause of a miscarriage or stillbirth. (Photo by Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images)

News From The States

More miscarriages criminally investigated three years into post-Dobbs abortion bans

Artistic reconstruction of Bolg amondol, depicted raiding an oviraptorosaur dinosaur nest amidst the lush Kaiparowits Formation habitat. (Courtesy of Cullen Townsend/University of Utah)

Utah News Dispatch

‘Goblin prince’: New monstersaur discovered in Utah reveals hidden secrets of Gila monster relatives

The aftermath of the battle between the 28th Division and German troops in Gathemo, France, in August, 1944. (Screenshot from National Archives film)

Pennsylvania Capital-Star

81 years later, a small Normandy town remembers the sacrifices of Pa.’s 28th Division

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) arrives for a Republican luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on February 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Maine Morning Star

Susan Collins has reached a pinnacle of authority. How will she use it?