Former Georgia resident wanted for alleged misuse of $30M donated for Christian ministry in China

A former Georgia man is being sought on charges of having misused more than $30 million donated by religious groups and individuals for Christian ministry in China, including an Ohio-based group receiving donations from Amish and Mennonite communities. Jason Gerald Shenk, 45, formerly of Dublin, Georgia, is charged in a recently unsealed federal indictment in…

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Possible causes of Maui wildfire’s spread rate include drought, nonnative species and climate change

CNN  —  The wildfires that ripped through Hawaii on Tuesday and Wednesday are “unnerving,” and comparable to the landscape-altering wildfires that are common in the West, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. But Fleishman told CNN she wouldn’t be surprised “if wildfires in many parts of…

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