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Big Lots, a prominent discount retailer, is facing significant struggles as nearly 500 of its store leases across 47 states are listed for sale, raising the likelihood of closures, according to 9 News. This announcement comes amid the company's turbulent financial saga, which began with a bankruptcy filing last year and culminated in its acquisition by Gordon Brothers Retail Partners.

Trump once blamed officials who didn't, as he put it, "rake their forests" to prevent the spread of wildfires. Trump was likely referring to a forest management technique of clearing out underbrush. One strategy that accomplishes this is creation of shaded fuel breaks. According to Fire Safe San Mateo: "A fuel break is a strip or block of land on which the native vegetation has been permanently reduced and/or modified so that fires burning around it can be more readily and safely controlled. Fuels within fuel breaks are reduced in volume through thinning or pruning, or are changed to vegetative...