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Members of the U.S. House and Senate today jointly released new evidence shining further light on the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long efforts to deceive the American people about climate change. Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, released the following statement: “This new evidence of Big Oil’s climateContinue Reading

Two dozen local elected officials are calling out Trone for describing some people who support county executive Angela Alsobrooks as ‘low-level’ in a TV interview., Read MoreContinue Reading

Bobbie Adams claims in the lawsuit that a K-9 named VooDoo was ordered to attack and bite him., Read MoreContinue Reading

Wisconsin’s young voters — who have turned out in big numbers in recent elections — are key for either candidate to win the state. But Biden is facing some skepticism on the state’s college campuses., Read More from NPRContinue Reading

The White House is shoring up defenses on one of its most sensitive issues: immigration. Biden is trying to balance border security while protecting vulnerable undocumented immigrants in the U.S., Read More from NPRContinue Reading

Venzuela’s opposition finally gets to name a candidate to take on President Nicolas Maduro in July’s election. The authoritarian leader has used all sorts of underhanded tricks to seize the advantage., Read More from NPRContinue Reading

The African country of Chad goes holds its presidential election in the next few days — one of the first military led governments in the region to do so. Will the vote bring stability or more chaos?, Read More from NPRContinue Reading

The fourth session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, or INC-4, ended today without much-needed progress toward an international agreement to end plastic pollution and protect human health, the climate and biodiversity.While INC-4 did manage a commitment to convene experts to conduct intersessional work before theContinue Reading

Israel Continues Air Assault on Rafah, Killing Young Children, Ahead of Its Planned Ground Invasion, Palestinian Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh Dies in Israeli Prison; Released Detainee Describes Horror of Arrest, ICC Warns Netanyahu’s Comments Threaten “Independence and Impartiality” of Court, Student Protest Movement for Gaza Gains Steam Despite Police Crackdown, Biden’sContinue Reading

Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin says that if Nick Fuentes is going to have his Twitter account reinstated, then Anglin should have his account reinstated too because “we’re ostensibly in the same category”: “There is no reason not to unban me along with Nick. It will be the same media hit. ThereContinue Reading

Actor Mark Hamill, wearing a pair of aviator shades he said he got from President Biden, makes a surprise appearance in the White House daily press briefing on May 3. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Actor Mark Hamill, wearing a pair of aviator shades heContinue Reading

History professor Annelise Orleck said the response to the pro-Palestinian protest was like nothing she’d seen in her three decades at Dartmouth., Read MoreContinue Reading