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$11 billion is a lot of money. It’s more than the annual budget of Montana, among other states. It’s more than the loan the International Monetary Fund is considering giving to Egypt to stave off economic collapse. It is 14 times the size of the latest funding gap for the public transit system here in the District of Columbia, described as an “existential crisis” forcing service cuts.That enormous sum is the estimated cost of the damage from the atmospheric river that’s been pummeling California

“Gardeners have become important players in the management of our nation’s wildlife.”

Raj Jeshang for The Marshall Project By Rene Ebersole / The Marshall Project In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death row for murder, he has watched the case against him crumble. DNA evidence prosecutors used to link him to the crime was handled so badly that the state’s highest court threw it out — twice. A jailhouse witness who testified that Murray confessed to the rape and murder later said he may really have learned about the crime from watching “America’s Most

Conservation officials have installed the first Chinese mitten crab trap in England, and they are asking the public to report any sightings