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US Secret Service foils major telecommunications threat ahead of UN meeting
The system could have blacked out cell service in New York City, investigators said.
Bolsonaro Is Going To Jail
Gas makes a comeback at Climate Week
At a number of events in New York on Tuesday, senior officials made a case for gas as essential for energy security and a buttress to renewables.
Aluminum tariffs not driving US investment: Alcoa chief
The levies are also pushing the mining firm to pull back from expansion in Canada, among its largest production sites.
The Bonkers Wellness Myths That Fueled Trump’s Autism Announcement
In a long-awaited and much-dreaded announcement on Monday evening, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed today that the government has uncovered two potential explanations for autism. In a formal White House announcement they asserted that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and folate deficiency in pregnant people […]
How to Survive a Republican Power Grab
This was not how Greg Casar planned to spend his recess. On a Thursday afternoon in mid-August, as the clock ticked down on the first special session of the Texas legislature, the 36-year-old second-term Democratic congressman was sitting at the head of a small wooden conference table, commiserating with the legislator on the other end […]
Pakistan floods hit key agricultural, textile industries
A monsoon beginning in late June submerged large parts of Punjab and Sindh, Pakistan’s most populous and economically important provinces.
DRC to lift coltan export ban and introduce annual quotas
The DRC is the world’s biggest producer of coltan, a mineral essential for electronics and EVs.