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Student shoots, injures 2 at high school in Kansas, police …

Students from Olathe East High school are led off busses to reunite with their parents Friday, March 4, 2022, at Pioneer Trail Middle School in Olathe, Kan.,, after a shooting at the high school. Authorities say a suspect shot and wounded a school resource officer and an administrator at the suburban Kansas City high school. Police say a suspect has been taken into custody and there are no reports of injured students. (Reed Hoffmann/The Kansas City Star via AP)

Kansas teen’s death puts spotlight on ‘stand your ground’ …

This April 21, 2019, photo provided by Sarah Harrison shows Cedric Lofton of Wichita, Kan. A Kansas prosecutor, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett, says Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, he can't file charges over the death of Lofton, a Black 17-year-old who became unresponsive while being restrained after an altercation with staff at a Wichita juvenile center in September. (Courtesy Sarah Harrison via AP)

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U.S. seeing string of COVID outbreaks tied to summer …

In this June 9, 2006, file photo, kids from a day camp get soaked by the the fire department at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas. The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and Kansas, offering what some fear could be a preview of the upcoming school year. (Brad Smith/Tyler Morning Telegraph via AP, File)

Kansas woman alleging dorm assault convenes citizen …

This Thursday, May 20, 2021, image from video shows Madison Smith during an interview in Lindsborg, Kansas. (AP Photo/Heather Hollingsworth)

U.S. schools fight to keep high school students amid …

Senior Jose Solano-Hernandez, right, studies with classmates on the first day of in-person learning at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kan., Wednesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Several U.S. lawmakers seek legislation to limit …

In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 file photo, people protest outside the Statehouse in Concord, N.H., as Gov. Chris Sununu is inaugurated at noon for his third term as governor. A measure that recently passed New Hampshire's Republican-led House would prohibit governors from indefinitely renewing emergency declarations, as Sununu has done every 21 days for the past year. It would halt emergency orders after 30 days unless renewed by lawmakers. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

More than a dozen states to open COVID-19 vaccine …

Chicago area residents pass between a drive-thru and walk-in mass vaccination site Monday, March 29, 2021, across the street from the United Center, home to the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Some U.S. hospitals face complaints after donors, …

People wait in line for the COVID-19 vaccine in Paterson, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Keystone XL pipeline work suspended as President …

The Canadian company behind the Keystone XL oil pipeline said Wednesday it has suspended work on the pipeline in in anticipation of incoming U.S. President Joe Biden revoking its permit. Biden’s Day One plans included moving to revoke a presidential permit for the pipeline. The 1,700-mile (2,735-kilometer) pipeline would carry roughly 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. “As a result of the expected revocation of the Presidential Permit, advancement of the project will be suspended,” the Calgary, Alberta-based company said in a statement. First proposed in 2008, the pipeline has become emblematic of the tensions between economic development and curbing the fossil fuel emissions that are causing climate change. The Obama administration rejected it, but President Donald Trump revived it and has been a strong supporter. Construction already started. Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, said Canada needs to move on now that Biden has made a decision. “Of course we’re disappointed. We worked hard over the past number of months trying to make the case for Keystone XL," Hillman told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “He had made a commitment during his campaign and he lived up to that commitment. I think we have to accept that and move forward.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised Keystone XL as a top priority when he spoke with Biden in a phone call in November. The project is meant to expand critical oil exports for Canada, which has the third-largest oil reserves in the world. Jason Kenney, premier of the oil-rich province of Alberta, said late Tuesday he urged Trudeau to tell Biden that “rescinding the Keystone XL border crossing permit would damage the Canada-US bilateral relationship.” Trudeau and Biden are politically aligned and there are expectations for a return to normal relations after four years of Trump, but the pipeline is an early irritant as Biden has long said he would cancel it. Critics of Canada's oil sands say the growing operations increase greenhouse gas emissions and threaten Alberta’s rivers and forests. But Marty Durbin, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Energy Institute, said Biden's decision is not grounded in science and will put thousands of Americans out of work, "The pipeline — the most studied infrastructure project in American history — is already under construction and has cleared countless legal and environmental hurdles," Durbin said in a statement. "Halting construction will also impede the safe and efficient transport of oil, and unfairly single out production from one of our closest and most important allies.”