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Biden announces new effort to cut emissions as low-income nations demand more aid

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

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Biden Has Had More Climate Wins Than Past Presidents. But It Will Never Be Good Enough

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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Student loan forgiveness may be dead. Here’s what’s going on – Los Angeles Times

Student loan forgiveness may be dead. Here’s what’s going on  Los Angeles Times Federal judge blocks Student Loan Forgiveness program, White House responds: ‘strongly disagree’  ABC11 Howie Carr: Pot heads help keep Biden rolling  Boston Herald News Wrap: Ukrainian forces take back city

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Dominique Thorne Makes Her Marvel Debut as Riri in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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

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Here’s what happened on Friday at the U.N.’s COP27 climate talks

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)

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Judge stops pot dispensary licenses in parts of New York

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.

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6 Black Films That Changed the Course of Cinema

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

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A Judge Struck Down Student Loan Forgiveness. Here’s What That Means for Borrowers

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

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Ukrainians are raising the country’s next generation, children now as old as the war

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.

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Saint-Louis is being swallowed by the sea. Residents are bracing for a new reality

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)

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