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President Bill Clinton, right, watches as a young American Bald Eagle named Freedom is released into the wild along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist Craig Koppe during an Independence Day ceremony at Patuxent Naval Air Station, Md., July 4, 1996. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)

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July Fourth for presidents has been a day for golf, fishing, speeches and one perilous stomachache
By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press
Sun,07/02/23-6:50AM , 89 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public. They’ve bailed to the beach, the mountains, the golf course, the farm, the ranch.
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Cyclists are counted as they ride past the Rosslyn Bikeometer on National Bike to Work Day in Arlington, Va., Friday, May 19, 2023. The Bikeometer monitors the volume of bike usage on the Custis Trail in Arlington, Va. A Rutgers-Virginia Tech study of cycling in more than a dozen cities in North America and Europe finds that many new bikeways were built during the height of COVID-19. And these efforts were rewarded with increased cycling in places that undertook robust development. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Millions ditched cars for bikes during the pandemic. These cities want the habit to stick
By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press
Thu,05/18/23-11:34PM , 190 Reads
MONTREAL (AP) — In the agonies of the virus that upended most of the world, millions of people from Bogota to Berlin saw what life could be like on two wheels instead of four.
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Cyclists in the Go Bike Montreal Festival capture the exuberance of the Tour de l’ile, Sunday, June 5, 2022. The big public rides, on June 2 and June 4 this year, typically draw 20,000 or more participants each in a celebration of spring and Montreal’s vibrant bicycle culture. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Montreal bike festival heralds release from grip of COVID
By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press
Mon,05/15/23-7:55AM , 130 Reads
MONTREAL (AP) — If the 21-story Leonard Cohen mural that commands Montreal’s skyline could talk, it might tell you what this city's crackling cultural life was like when the pandemic hit and everyone hunkered down.
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Iranian oil tanker Fortune is anchored at the dock of the El Palito refinery near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, May 25, 2020. A dozen senators are making a bipartisan appeal to President Joe Biden to reinvigorate the power of U.S. authorities to seize Iranian oil assets under an enforcement program they say has been allowed to languish. Despite existing sanctions, Iranian oil exports jumped 35% last year and proceeds are being used to sponsor attacks on U.S. citizens and servicemembers as well as allies, the senators said in a letter to the president. (AP Photo/Ernesto Vargas, File)

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Be tough in seizing Iran oil, bipartisan senators urge Biden
By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press
Sat,04/29/23-12:31PM , 55 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen senators are making a bipartisan appeal to President Joe Biden to reinvigorate the power of U.S. authorities to seize Iranian oil assets under an enforcement program they say has been allowed to languish.
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