Experts Say Med Sea Altered by Suez Canal’s Invasive Species

Tel Aviv, Israel (AP) As Egypt marks the 150th anniversary of the Suez Canal’s opening, marine biologists are bemoaning one of the famed waterway’s lesser known legacies — the invasion of hundreds of non-native species. Those species have driven the native marine life toward extinction and altered the delicate Mediterranean ecosystem with potentially devastating consequences.…

Australia Firefighters Save World’s Only Rare Dinosaur Trees

Canberra, Australia (AP) Firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from Australia’s wildfires. The national parks director says firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a massive wildlife bore down. A…

House votes to send Trump impeachment to Senate for trial

(AP) The U.S. House has voted to send two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate. The House also approved the chamber’s prosecutors for what will be only the third Senate impeachment trial in American history.  The nearly party-line vote on Wednesday moves Trump’s impeachment from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic-run House  to…

Iran Warns Europe as Diplomat Says Officials ‘Lied’ on Crash

Tehran, Iran (AP) Iran’s president is warning that European soldiers deployed in the Mideast “may be in danger” after Britain, France and Germany challenged Tehran over breaking limits of its 2015 nuclear deal. Hassan Rouhani made the comment on Wednesday during a televised Cabinet meeting.It comes after the nations started a dispute process over Iran…

Pelosi sets Wednesday votes to send impeachment to Senate

(AP) The House is expected to vote Wednesday to send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate. Speaker Nancy Pelosi met privately Tuesday at the Capitol with her Democratic caucus to discuss the timetable. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday scoffing at the House’s “bizarro” impeachment…