Show captionNancy Pelosi’s lukewarm response is another sign that US politicians are far from ready to take concrete steps to deal with the realities of climate change. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/APDemocratsNancy Pelosi has been notably tepid on green legislation – so are the Democrats serious about fighting climate change?Sat 12 Sep 2020 04.30 EDTWith hundreds of…
As new polling continues to give clues toward the states in play for the presidential campaign, President Trump was once again at the center of two story lines that consumed the news.President Trump said he was putting a moratorium on offshore drilling at an event in Jupiter, Fla.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesSept. 12, 2020, 3:00…
The Afghan government and the Taliban are finally coming to the table, after repeated delays. But the violence continues, and the challenges are vast.Abdullah Abdullah, head of the government’s delegation to the peace talks, before leaving for Qatar from Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, on Friday. He said he hoped for “the beginning of a big transformation.”Credit...High…
Jimmy Carter has set the record straight about who joined Willie Nelson in smoking pot on the roof of the White House during Carter's presidency.It wasn't a White House staffer member, it was one of Carter's sons.“When Willie Nelson wrote his autobiography, he confessed that he smoked pot in the White House one night when he was spending the night with…
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…