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This May 4, 2022 image courtesy of Laura Paskus shows the silhouette of a cross amid smokey skies where hundreds of firefighters are battling a massive wildfire burning in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near the community of Las Vegas, New Mexico. (Laura Paskus via AP)

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Fire-ravaged New Mexico villages cling to faith, ‘querencia’
By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press
Fri,05/06/22-1:30PM , 91 Reads
Eileen Celestina Garcia raced down the mountain that overlooks her parents’ ranch home in northern New Mexico where friends and family have gathered for decades and where she has sat countless times among the stillness of the Ponderosa pines.
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Allyson Jacobs stands for a portrait outside her workplace, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in New York. For Jacobs, life in her 20s and 30s was about focusing on her career in health care and enjoying the club scene in New York City. It wasn't until she turned 40 that she and her husband started trying to have children. They had a son when she was 42. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Motherhood deferred: US median age for giving birth hits 30
By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press
Fri,05/06/22-10:44AM , 204 Reads
For Allyson Jacobs, life in her 20s and 30s was about focusing on her career in health care and enjoying the social scene in New York City. It wasn't until she turned 40 that she and her husband started trying to have children. They had a son when she was 42.
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A Ukrainian an Austrian flag is painted on a freight train with fodder maize, arriving from the Ukraine in Vienna, Austria, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Theresa Wey)

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With Ukraine's ports blocked, trains in Europe haul grain
By PHILIPP-MORITZ JENNE - Associated Press
Fri,05/06/22-10:43AM , 245 Reads
VIENNA (AP) — A train carrying 2,000 metric tons of Ukrainian corn arrived in Austria on Friday, part of European efforts to elude a Russian blockade of Ukraine’s ports that has prevented critical supplies of wheat, corn
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This 2021 image provided by LeighAnn Ferrara shows Ferrara's young son as he watches a rabbit on a grassy patch of his White Plains, N.Y., yard, which is surrounded by planting beds of flowers, vegetables and trees. Many people are converting parts of their grass lawns into more diverse plantings. (LeighAnn Ferrara via AP

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America's love affair with the lawn is getting messy
By JULIA RUBIN - Associated Press
Fri,05/06/22-6:40AM , 169 Reads
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — LeighAnn Ferrara is transforming her small suburban yard from grass bordered by a few shrubs into an anti-lawn — a patchwork of flower beds, vegetables and fruit trees.
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Chance of Rain: 0%
Max Temp: 96°F
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Feels Like: 75°F
Dew Point: 78°F
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Sunrise: 6:00 AM
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