If you decorate your home with bales of straw during the fall months, you may not realize that having dry bales by the house actually poses a serious fire risk. But leaving them out in the elements to become wet bales can be problematic, too, over time. When you're done using them as decor, the best thing is to break up the straw and use it as mulch. It'll insulate plants or protect your vegetable garden, and come spring, it can be tilled right into the soil to break down into compost.
(AP) – All good things must come to an end and Matt Amodio's historic run on "Jeopardy!" did just that on Monday's show, leaving the Yale doctoral student with 38 wins and more than $1.5 million in prize money.
(AP) – North Carolina officials say nearly all of the 10,000 employees working in stateoperated health care facilities are fully vaccinated against COVID.
(AP) – More than 130 countries have agreed on sweeping changes to how big global companies are taxed, including a 15% minimum corporate rate designed to deter multinationals from stashing profits in low-tax countries.
(AP) – Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia, when she was seated next to him at dinners. Putin's people placed her there by design, choosing a "nondescript woman," as she put it, so the Russian president would have no competition for attention.
(AP) — Moderna has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up the company's own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the company's chairman said.




