House Republicans are moving to derail the Biden administration's "ecogrief" training for federal employees, attaching language to a spending bill that would bar the Interior Department from offering the classes to its employees.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry is now the Biden administration's climate envoy. In that capacity, he is traveling to China on Sunday for three days of talks. Recognizing China is by far and away the world's largest carbon emitter, Kerry wants to reenergize suspended Sino-American engagement on this issue.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) new assessment of the safety of the common artificial sweetener aspartame has ignited a debate over just what consumers should do. Two groups tied to the WHO — the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) — issued somewhat diverging conclusions...
Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson raised just over $920,000 in the most recent quarter, according to a financial disclosure filed Saturday. Williamson's campaign also reported about $270,000 in unpaid debts and about $105,000 cash on hand. The best-selling author’s latest fundraising stands in contrast to other Democratic presidential hopefuls. President Biden, who is heavily favored...
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in an interview published Sunday that Russia has a “sufficient stockpile” of cluster bombs and threatened to take “reciprocal action” if Ukraine used the munitions against his country. In the new interview, Putin made his first public comments in response to news that the United States delivered cluster munitions to...
Anurag Chandra, 45, faced life in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted by a jury in April of three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder.
Former President Trump is seeking unprecedented delays as he faces prosecution for mishandling classified documents, arguing his status as a candidate and other factors require punting the case indefinitely. The strategy, if successful, would postpone Trump’s trial into a window that could be more favorable for him. If Trump were reelected, his administration's Justice Department could withdraw...
The end of affirmative action, which followed a lawsuit brought by an organization that said Asian American and white students were being discriminated against, has highlighted the starkly differing viewpoints of Asian American lawmakers. While some are warning Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students will face additional challenges in applying to elite institutions, others...