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The Trump administration has introduced a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock of successful U.S. wildlife conservation for more than 50 years, dramatically weakening its power to protect natural habitats and opening vulnerable lands to real estate development, oil drilling and other extractive industries. A coalition of conservation groups is suing the Trump administration over the rule change. They are represented by the environmental law group Earthjustice and senior attorney Ben Levitan, who calls this latest Trump administration attack on the environment “a total repudiation of the premise that endangered species need places to have shelter, to have food, to raise their young.”

Ellen Brown Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousands of years, work has been the means by which we fed our families, earned our place in society, and gave structure to our lives. We have come to equate paid employment with identity.  That […]

Home sales above 10 million dirhams fell 54% in the second quarter compared to the first, according to real-estate brokerage Savills.

Edward Curtin We were screwing in a mirror when we realized our mistake. Since the handyman was unavailable, we had to do it ourselves. Certainly it was very pleasurable to know that we could, but we screwed-up. Lurid sexual news is common these days; it grabs people’s attention. It titillates the public’s imagination like nothing […]

Has the United States launched a forever war on Iran? As the Trump administration renews its attacks on Iran, killing at least 35 civilians over the course of five days, political analyst Ali Vaez warns that the U.S. is inciting potentially never-ending “cycles of violence” with its manipulations of the diplomatic process. The U.S.’s unilateral renunciation of the “memorandum of understanding” as a “pretext for another round of war” has further eroded trust between the countries, says Vaez. “There is really no military solution,” he concludes. “The best solution is for both sides to agree to return to the MOU and to respect its terms.”

The proposed projects, part of a wave of Gulf capital being poured into Syria's reconstruction, align with a broader effort to keep the country out of Iran's orbit.

The low-profile emirate has been reinventing itself around Wynn Resorts’ Al Marjan Island resort, which will house the Gulf’s first legal casino, but the Iran war has caused delays.

Joshua Scheer Vice President JD Vance has made one of the most striking public acknowledgments yet of tensions between Washington and Israel over the future of the Iran conflict, claiming that members of the Israeli government are actively working to keep the United States engaged in an open-ended military campaign. In an interview with podcaster […]

With inventories falling and ships under fire in Hormuz, “it's too optimistic to believe that the global economy is off the hook,” Birol told the Aspen Security Forum.