‘Transparent information sharing’ from Moscow is required to conduct full risk assessment, UN agency says The World Health Organization has said it does not have the “full picture” from Russia following the suspected death from plague last week of a 28-year-old laboratory worker in Siberia. Darya Shipilova died two days after falling ill with cold-like symptoms. She was an employee at the anti-plague research institute in the eastern city of Irkutsk, with some reports suggesting she was infected after a workplace accident. Continue reading...

The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.

Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in

El Niño is hitting world’s biggest sugar producers, exposing the crop’s acute vulnerability to the climate phenomenon but also providing an early glimpse of broader threats to farmers and global food inflation.

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From Harding’s trickle-down promises to Hoover’s prosperity pitch to Reagan’s tax cut hustle to Trump’s factory announcements, Republicans have a long history of pushing scams before Election Day…

The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.

I've gotten tough or resilient or case-hardened to the ugly things I read up on daily as part of my writing and civic life. Some of them, the amoral destructiveness of the tech industry and the Trump ...

National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after Doge canceled crucial contracts

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...

A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.

"Not exactly the cancer cure we were promised," quipped one critic.

If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.

At least in certain ways

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

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Federal debt is adding to the affordability squeeze, quietly raising household monthly bills for mortgage, auto, and student loan payments.

On Aug. 27, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released the details of a $16.7 million no-bid contract with Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, KY, for the purchase for their agents of…

After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

The number of potentially damaging environmental incidents triggered by this year’s hot and dry weather has surpassed that of 2025

Experts say some of António Guterres’s possible successors could be ‘disastrous’ for efforts to tackle crisis

António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation

Trump says he digs coal – but pneumoconiosis cases are at a 50-year high, and sick miners are mired in benefit delays

It’s becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chin

On this special edition of Inside Climate, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse joins co-host Jake Bolster to how Democrats can make climate change a winning issue in the midterm elections.

Exiled dissidents and an unsealed indictment suggest Kremlin may have abandoned longstanding taboo on attacks on its rival’s territory

The conflict is expanding, cutting off more oil supply routes—and the president has no idea what to do except lie

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The White House says the president's 28,700 trades are automated and hands-off.

The move to import foreign beef infuriated Republicans in farm states facing tough reelections — and gave Democrats and independents a rare opening with rural voters.

“He wants to be a bully. He is a bully,” Ty Cobb said.

Saga of the USS Abraham Lincoln shows how power talks its way out of responsibility

Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?