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Nuclear waste dump explodes

A video released Thursday by the Nevada Division of Public Safety shows white smoke and explosions that preceded a fire Sunday in a state-owned, low-level radioactive waste dump at the US Ecology site. The video of the soil-capped Trench No. 14 was taken from a berm atop Trench 11 at the landfill site, 10 miles south of Beatty, Nev.

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Jeffrey R. Holland, next in line to lead LDS church, dies at 85

Jeffrey R. Holland, a high-ranking official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was next in line to become the faith’s president, has died.