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Scientists say they have discovered the largest Jurassic pterosaur in history, with a wingspan of more than 8 feet and a mouth full of sharp teeth. According to a peer-reviewed journal published in Cell, the dinosaur, Dearc sgiathanach, was found in Isle of Skye, Scotland, in 2017.

There was no evidence of any criminal intent by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who was targeted by the governor after finding a security flaw in a state website, Cole County Prosecutor Locke Thompson said in an interview Monday.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – A 500- pound black bear, known by residents as Hank the Tank, has damaged more than 30 properties around Lake Tahoe in an endless quest for a quick meal. The giant bear has eluded capture for more than seven months, said Peter Tira, a spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The bear is responsible for more than 150 incident reports in the region straddling Northern California and Nevada. Tira described the bear as “severely food habituated” and said it has “lost all fear of people.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Lawyers in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in the deadly narcotics raid that killed Breonna Taylor were to return to court Tuesday to finish an extended jury selection process. The attorneys will winnow down a pool of 48 people to 12 jurors and three alternates for the trial of former officer Brett Hankison, who is charged with wanton endangerment for shooting into the apartment of one of Taylor’s neighbors on the night of the March 2020 raid. Hankison is the only officer charged.

While Eastern Jackson County remains an area of high transmission, new COVID-19 cases have steadily declined for several weeks and are now just slightly above the thresholds that are considered high. In January, case rates had reached pandemic highs.

BEIRUT – Canadian authorities are preventing a Canadian woman and a child detained in a camp in Syria from returning home to get life-saving medical treatment, contradicting policies that allow such repatriations, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. There are nearly 50 Canadian nationals stuck in camps in northeastern Syria. Some of them have been held since even before the Islamic State group lost the last sliver of land in its self-declared caliphate in March 2019. More than half of the Canadians are children, most under age 7.

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CAIRO – Libya’s embattled prime minister is warning that the appointment of a new interim government could set off war and chaos in a Mediterranean country mired in turmoil. Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Monday reiterated his insistence that he will hand over power only to an elected government. Dbeibah called any plan to install an interim government a “farce” that could lead to more wars. “I will not accept by whatever form to hand over (power) to chaos,” he said, and an election “is the sole solution.”