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SALT LAKE CITY – Utah lawmakers are getting competing views on climate change, one emphasizing the vast scientific consensus about warming trends and humanity’s influence and another raising doubts about the root causes. At a standing-room-only hearing at the Capitol Wednesday, the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee heard 90 …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau says a moderate 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck east of the island, and there are no immediate reports of casualties or damage. It says the quake struck at 1:36 a.m. Sunday. It was centered about 14 miles east of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan, …

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden announced at a press conference on Sunday that Colorado authorities have ruled the “balloon boy’s” flight a hoax. “It has been determined that this is a hoax. We believe we have evidence at this point to indicate that this was a publicity stunt,” Alderden told …