The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that says greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.Rigorous scientific findings since 2009 have showed that greenhouse gases and global warming are harming public h
The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.E.P.A. administrator Lee Zeldin has claimed that previous administrations used the endangerment finding to justify “trillions of dollars” in regulations on poll
The announcement came more than two months into an operation that has led to tense protests, thousands of arrests and three shootings in the Democratic-led state.Tom Homan, the White House border czar, in a news conference earlier this month.
The arrest of Narciso Barranco, who was detained by federal agents while landscaping outside an IHOP in Southern California last June, garnered national attention.Narciso Barranco, center, and his wife, Martha, at a church in Tustin, Calif., in August.
European leaders have been compelled to address the possibility of once-remote risks to the financial networks and technology that undergird their economies.The European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels. The Trump administration’s embrace of cryptocurrency has ratcheted up European concerns abo
U.S. companies and consumers are paying most of the cost of tariffs, in the form of higher prices.
Judge Richard J. Leon found that attempts to discipline Mark Kelly for a video that warned against following illegal orders would violate the senator’s First Amendment rights.Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, at the Capitol on Wednesday.
The program was meant to help hospitals provide for poor patients by offering drug savings. But critics say a Texas company has turned it into a big business, driving up costs for patients and insurers.The offices of Apexus in Irving, Texas. The company, a subsidiary of Vizient, negotiates drug disc
Olympic officials ruled that Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet violated a prohibition on political speech, setting off outrage at the Winter Games in Italy.Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified for wearing a helmet to commemorate athletes who were killed in the war with Russia.
Last minute announcements and abrupt changes by the Trump administration have caused confusion in an already strained U.S. aviation system.A nearly deserted security checkpoint at the El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday, after the Federal Aviation Administration announced a 10-day ba
The Trump administration blamed the disruptive halt on a cartel drone incursion, but others have disputed that explanation.The shutdown at the airport in El Paso was lifted in less than eight hours, but not before disrupting travelers and businesses.
At 85, Jan Worrell lived alone on a remote corner of the Washington coast. Could ElliQ become her companion?
Senator John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro were both rising Democratic stars when they won their offices in 2022. Since then, their political trajectories have diverged.
A crypto-backed super PAC plans to spend $1.5 million against Mr. Green, a member of the House Financial Services Committee who has expressed concerns about cryptocurrency.Representative Al Green of Texas, whose Houston-area district was upended by redistricting, is running against Representative Ch
Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation.Dario Amodei, a co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, formerly worked at OpenAI.
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.
Henry McGowan of New York City was charged in the death of his father in an Irish hotel. He had struggled with mental illness for several years.
After publishing more than 20 books and winning a Nobel Prize, the Turkish author fought to bring a celebrated novel to the screen — on his own terms.Orhan Pamuk in his office in Istanbul, in an apartment building named for his family.
The attack at a secondary school and a private residence in the small, remote community in British Columbia has left families stunned and grief-stricken.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to hold private landlords accountable. But he has said less about how he will fix the crumbling public housing system he now oversees.Angela Norales, who lives in a New York City Housing Authority building in the Bronx, contends with frequent leaks from her bedroom c
A rental voucher program costs more than $1 billion. The mayor’s decision to curtail its expansion reflects the clash between his ideology and the realities of managing the city.Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who faces a budget deficit, said expanding a costly rental voucher program might not be feasible.
It’s finally warming up, which means the storm will most likely bring rain instead of more dreaded ice. But forecasters warned that there may be a lot of it.Rain is likely to hit Arkansas, along with other parts of the South.
An insolvent, broken utility left downtown buildings in Youngstown freezing in recent weeks. Gov. Mike DeWine has attributed the problems to an archaic system.Only one of three mobile boilers was operational on the edge of downtown Youngstown, Ohio, where dozens of buildings were without heat as tem
Melting mega-piles of grimy road snow can release weeks worth of salt, oils (and dog poop) in what one scientist called a “triple whammy.”
