Democrats are deeply conflicted about the food aid requirements that President Joe Biden negotiated as part of the debt ceiling deal, fearing damage has been done to safety net programs that will be difficult to unravel in the years ahead as Republicans demand further cuts.
International negotiators have agreed to craft a treaty to end plastic pollution with a draft due in November. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a release on Saturday that the second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, which formed to develop a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, concluded in Paris with a...
A woman has been arrested in Washington state after authorities said she refused to seek treatment for tuberculosis for more than a year. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department said in a statement on Thursday that the woman, who was not identified, was taken to the Pierce County Jail where she will be housed in a...
A top Russian official said the United States must change its policy toward Russia for his country to consider rejoining a nuclear arms reduction treaty. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, told reporters that the Russian government’s decision from February to suspend its participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is “unshakable” regardless...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) slammed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on stage at a Paramore concert in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Videos circulating on social media that Frost’s Twitter account retweeted show the freshman congressman saying “f--- Ron DeSantis” and “f--- fascism.” “I said what I said,” he later tweeted. Video also showed Frost singing...
An expert in artificial intelligence warned the new technology could prove "too powerful and too disruptive," doubting the government's ability to address the challenge.