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For the first time, scientists have cloned an endangered U.S. species: a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann, whose donor has been dead for more than 30 years. After the original ferret, Willa, died in 1988, scientists froze her body to preserve her genetic material, hoping to someday perform an experiment like this. While a domesticated ferret carried the cloned embryo, the new ferret, who is being raised at a Fish and Wildlife Service black-footed ferret breeding facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, is still very wild, with all the instincts and aggression that suggests. This is a fresh success story for the black-footed ferret, which has become emblematic of how well conservation and repopulation efforts can work. First, scientists thought the ferret was extinct, after frustrated ranchers poisoned almost all of the animals in the wild. Then, the population grew from a group of just a few, so there are about 1,000 wild black ferrets today—plus populations in wildlife...

For an academic, Michael Caulfield has an odd request: Stop overthinking what you see online. Mr. Caulfield, a digital literacy expert at Washington State University Vancouver, knows all too well that at this very moment, more people are fighting for the opportunity to lie to you than at perhaps any other point in human history. Misinformation rides the greased algorithmic rails of powerful social media platforms and travels at velocities and in volumes that make it nearly impossible to stop. That alone makes information warfare an unfair fight for the average internet user. But Mr. Caulfield argues that the deck is stacked even further against us. That the way we’re taught from a young age to evaluate and think critically about information is fundamentally flawed and out of step with the chaos of the current internet. “We’re taught that, in order to protect ourselves from bad information, we need to deeply engage with the stuff that washes up in front of us,” Mr. Caulfield told me...

A 13 year-old girl stole her mother’s SUV, then smashed the huge vehicle into two homeless men at high speed and killed both, police say. Extremely disturbing doorbell camera footage showed the moment the unnamed teen lost control of the car in Escondido, California, on Friday night. Its tires could be heard screeching as it mounted a curb and crashed into a set of planters. Two homeless men were sleeping there at the time. One died instantly, with the other succumbing to his injuries after being rushed to a hospital. Another 13 year-old was in the car at the time of the collision, police said. Neighbor Ivan Calderon, who witnessed the death smash, told Fox5: ‘The car was just speeding off right here. I’m not sure if they were trying to make a turn and they didn’t handle it, and just went straight to the wall.’ ‘What are they thinking, you know? We read on the report that they were coming from Vista, and Vista is pretty far for you to be driving if you’re 13 years old, especially...

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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments. Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday. The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services. The measure to further economic development with the “alternative form of local government” has not yet been introduced in the Legislature. Sisolak pitched the concept in his State of the State address delivered Jan. 19. The plan would bring in new businesses at the forefront of “groundbreaking technologies” without the use of tax abatements or other publicly funded incentive packages that...

Denisa Stastna and her boyfriend said they were just filming the demonstrations when her head was pushed against a building by the high-pressure water coming from the cannon over the weekend. The Czech national had to have more than 15 stitches because of the fracture, local media reported. ‘We just stood there filming and walked away. They had no right to use the water cannon on us,’ Ms Stastna told Omroepbrabant. Her boyfriend, Michael Piksel, insisted the couple were ‘never out for violence’ and were only filming the protests in Eindhoven. They said they are going to take action against the police for her injuries. A spokesperson for Dutch prosecutor Janine Kramer said: ‘There was an emergency order and there were several announcements that you had to leave. ‘If you do not leave then you are in principle punishable.’ The demonstrations came after the Netherlands announced a tough curfew forcing people to stay inside their houses from 9pm until 4.30am every day. It was...