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President Biden arrived in Egypt for the COP27 U.N. climate talks. The president pledged new money for renewable energy projects around the world, and a greater push to cut emissions of methane. But he also is hearing a plea from

President Joe Biden arrived at the United Nations COP27 climate change conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Friday with wind in his sails. In August, he signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the most significant climate law in

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is always introducing new characters to its already enormous slate. After many of the franchise’s central superheroes died or retired in Avengers: Endgame, Phase Four of the Marvel release schedule was dedicated to seeing how other

President Biden touted American progress reining in emissions and said he intends to push for more money for developing countries. Here’s what happened at COP27 today. (Image credit: Alex Brandon/AP)

A federal judge has temporarily blocked New York from issuing recreational marijuana dispensary licenses in Brooklyn and parts of upstate New York while a legal challenge to the state’s selection process is being considered.

The documentary title Is That Black Enough For You?!? comes from many different sources. The phrase is a reference to the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem, co-written and directed by Ossie Davis. Davis, in turn, borrowed the saying from

The Education Department has stopped accepting new applications for student-debt forgiveness, after a federal judge in Texas blocked the plan, ruling that the program was an “an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power.” The ruling is the most significant setback

In the first two months of the war in Ukraine, 15,000 babies were born. Their parents are raising the next generation of Ukrainians — children now as old as the war.

The problem is as simple as it is devastating: the Atlantic Ocean is expanding into Senegal, and Saint-Louis is ground zero. Every year, the island loses a little bit of land to the sea. (Image credit: Ricci Shryock for NPR)