President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce proposed rollbacks to the National Environmental Policy Act regulations in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, January 9, 2020.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday finalized a rollback to the country's landmark environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act, by speeding up approval for…
The Trump administration is rolling back major environmental protections that require the US government to comprehensively analyze how proposed projects like pipelines and highways affect surrounding communities.Trump announced the changes on Wednesday afternoon from a UPS airport hub in Atlanta, where he backed the widening of commercial truck lanes on Interstate Highway 75. The White…
The third named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Cristobal, weakened to a tropical depression Monday morning after making landfall in southeastern Louisiana.The storm system that made landfall near Grand Isle, La., with 50 mph winds will continue to bring heavy rain and tropical storm-force wind gusts into Mississippi and Alabama.Isolated tornadoes are also possible north and east of Cristobal on…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…