Leaders of the world’s biggest oil companies have used an industry gathering in Houston to launch an attack on the speed of transition to clean energy, claiming a badly managed process could lead to “insecurity, rampant inflation and social unrest”. Executives ...
People in counties that voted for Donald Trump are nearly three times more likely to die from Covid-19 than those who live in counties that voted for Joe Biden, according to a new study [1] by National Public Radio. NPR examined ...
The statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee that drew deadly protests to Charlottesville, Virginia [1], will be melted down and turned into a new piece of public art by an African American heritage center. The city council decided how ...
Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell [1]’s child sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday introduced a witness who was once the kind of minor teen on whom the Briton is alleged to have preyed. At 14, Carolyn was vulnerable. She had ...
In a stunning victory, US immigration [1] judges have settled a tense dispute with Joe Biden’s administration over their effort to restore union rights taken away from them under Donald Trump. Biden’s Department of Justice agreed on Tuesday to recognize the ...
Let’s face it: our chances of staying under a 2C increase in global temperature are not looking good. If we continue business as usual, the world is on track to heat up by 3C at least by the end of ...
In the United States, only certain types of theft are newsworthy. For example, on 14 June 2021, a reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco tweeted a cellphone video [1] of a man in Walgreens filling a garbage bag with stolen items ...
Damien Harris scored on a 64-yard run in blustery conditions on a night when Mac Jones attempted just three passes, and the New England Patriots [1] shored up their familiar place atop the AFC with a 14-10 win over the ...