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The president of the World Bank has warned that the war in Ukraine could spark a global recession.

Last year, the startup Toucan launched with a bold vision: it was going to use the blockchain to upend the entire carbon credits system. The traditional voluntary carbon market—in which polluting companies can pay for credits that fund emission-reducing efforts—was

Nina Jankowicz was tapped to head the Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board but resigned after being deluged with online threats. Her new book is How to Be a Woman Online.

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a news briefing on Thursday.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby holds a news briefing on Thursday.

The U.K. charges were announced as Spacey was testifying in a courtroom in New York City in a civil lawsuit.

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With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, nuclear facilities have been caught up in the midst of conventional warfare for the first time in history. That nightmare scenario is one that few of the industry’s players had anticipated. In Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia,