Spaghetti, Macaroni and Rigatoni, meanwhile,

A message seeking comment was sent Wednesday to the agency’s communications office.Heatley said a seasonal increase in staffing of about 60 to 65 workers to help with summer crowds isn’t sufficient to preserve park infrastructure or sustain its longterm needs. A number of the park’s eight ranger positions — full-time positions tasked with maintaining park roads, buildings and trails — are unfilled, he said.

Heatley’s previous experience includes planning and management roles with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He said he felt conflicted staying in a role where he saw the system as being undermined.Crater Lake National Park is home to the deepest lake in the U.S. and the deepest lake in the world formed by volcanic activity.JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel signed defense contracts worth nearly $15 billion last year, surpassing its all-time record, the country’s defense ministry said Wednesday, even as international outrage mounts over the war in

. Over half the deals were with European countries.The contracts — a 13% increase from 2023, itself a record year — came as Israel faces growing international condemnation and isolation over the nearly 20-month war.

Some of Israel’s closest allies, including Canada and France, recently stepped up their censure of Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the U.K.

. Some critics of Israel’s conduct in the Palestinian enclave have called for countries to suspend trade with it.Soon, the workers began to see the images becoming clearer, with gray sections returned to the original white painted by Vanka.

“It’s really fascinating, especially to see from below, a lot of these details that were lost coming back, and seeing what his initial vision was,” conservation technician Christina Cichra said.Workers also cleaned the aluminum leaf that forms backgrounds, as in the arch-shaped one behind St. Mark and St. Matthew.

They used a solution with neutral pH — neither alkaline nor acidic, both of which would damage the material.Parts of the aluminum leaf have deteriorated entirely. The team’s original idea was to replace those sections with new leaf, but it was too shiny and didn’t match. After some experimentation, they decided on a mixture of watercolor and other materials.