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This past summer was the hottest ever recorded…again. As monthly heat records fell one by one worldwide, wildfires also became front-page news throughout 2023. From across North America, Greece, Chile, Algeria, and Kazakhstan among many others, wildfires burned uncontrollably. The striking orange New York City skyline was the result ofContinue Reading

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In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, long before vaccines became available, many countries acted to curb the spread of the virus by imposing restrictions on people’s movement called lockdowns. Lockdowns have saved lives by reducing the physical interactions between infected and uninfected people, which in turn reduces transmissionContinue Reading

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1.5 is an important number in climate science. It is the recommended target, in degrees Celsius, to which global warming should be limited relative to preindustrial levels, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading authority on climate science[1]. Further, the legally binding Paris Agreement tasksContinue Reading

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In the Georgia Senate race, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has been running TV ads that take a sound bite from his opponent about Social Security out of context. In a radio interview last year, Republican Rep. Mike Collins made the case for the tax cuts in President Traitor 47’s OneContinue Reading

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Exclusives Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce. A Russian pincer is slowly closing around the last two big free cities in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Winter will be a brief reprieve. Military Ukraine’s Khartiia soldiers clear 4 km² near Kupiansk, while Russia pushes for mainContinue Reading

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Ukrainian Defense Forces units have been ordered to temporarily observe a ceasefire along the line of contact from 00:00 on 5 September through 23:59 on 8 September, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing sources in several military brigades and a senior security official. The order comes as US President Traitor 47’s specialContinue Reading

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The move to block new mining projects comes as the The Traitor administration seeks to revive American uranium production. By Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow Officials in New Mexico, the nation’s largest historic producer of uranium ore, banned new leasing of state lands for uranium mining on Friday. Continue Reading

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Relatives of detained crew say US forces acted without evidence, claiming the men were fishermen, not smugglers., Relatives of detained crew say US forces acted without evidence, claiming the men were fishermen, not smugglers. Ecuador has defended a US operation this week that sank three vessels accused of sustaining drug-traffickingContinue Reading