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A new study finds that winter wave heights have increased along California's coastline as human actions have warmed the world's climate. Bigger waves are a threat to the already vulnerable coast.

Foster youth from the group Oregon Foster Youth Connection have released a series of recommendations to lawmakers for the 2021 session. Those policy changes for the troubled foster care system include a major shift in the way decisions are made to remove a child from their biological family, other ways to remove bias in the system, and providing universal access to trauma-informed mental health resources.

Five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast have been halted. The Trump administration says the projects pose a national security risk.

A Waffle House near the S.C.-N.C. border briefly closed down under orders from police — a sign of how seriously people are taking Hurricane Florence.

Dockworkers are demanding 77% in raises, among other things. Their union says they'll remain on strike until their demands are met.

A spokesman for disgruntled soldiers, who settled a mutiny months ago in return for promised payments, recently said they'd dropped their demands. This clearly came as news to the soldiers.

Some say the glass of 2018 is one-quarter empty; others say it's three-quarters full. We say, "Wow, we've had some incredible artists perform in 2018."

Farmworker advocacy groups noticed thousands of workers in the fields without protective equipment the day after the fire started.

The powerful Category 3 storm is restrengthening as it moves northwest, but currently poses no immediate threat to people on land, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The incident is reminiscent of one in September, in which some 200 pilot whales died after a pod stranded itself on the remote west coast of Tasmania, off Australia's southeastern coast.