Slightly weird edition with some thoughts on the AI moment

Duane Bratt says Alberta separatists’ U.S. contacts are foreign interference, not treason, and warns of a post-referendum backlash.

Alberta separatists have been accused of offering US officials access to the province's natural resources in return for support.

If there’s no other way

Order on two construction sites comes after Google failed to carry out environmental impact assessments

Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

Party in England and Wales ditches commitment to phase out nuclear in major shift in its energy policy

The country’s far-right president is courting billionaire investors by removing a block on foreign ownership of land and natural resources

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ...

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...

Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.

But ask me why and I'll spit in your eye

Lula’s coalition asked Brazil’s top electoral court to investigate actions benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro, while the Workers’ Party sought a Federal Police inquiry from the Supreme Court.

Heatwaves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year combined to expose one third of the world's population to extremely high levels of ozone pollution, a European Union report said…

Norway's government said on Monday it plans to propose a temporary ban on the use of ​AI glasses in selected places, saying it is concerned ‌people could be photographed, filmed or audio-recorded with...

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

Global campaign group 350.org urges Cop31 hosts to announce a coal phase-out date and national roadmaps to get off fossil fuels

Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes

Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total

It isn’t catastrophizing to assume that Donald Trump is going to do everything we fear he may do to threaten the midterms, if for no other reason than every one of his actions lately demonstrates his ...

David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology

Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist

Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy

The New York City mayor has an antidote to globe-spanning distemper.