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Joe Biden doesn’t want voters to remember this video

A old video of President Joe Biden resurfaced this week, and it’s capturing the attention of the G.O.P. The video comes from 2007, when Biden was serving as a U.S. senator and campaigning for president. Biden was speaking at a town hall in Iowa, and he spoke about Afghanistan. Specifically,… Read More

Nuclear energy: Views differ among Glasgow summit attendees

Deep in a French forest of oaks, birches and pines, a steady stream of trucks carries a silent reminder of nuclear energy’s often invisible cost: canisters of radioactive waste, heading into storage for the next 300 years. As negotiators plot out how to fuel the world while also reducing carbon… Read More

Global shares up after Fed pledges to wind down economic aid

Global shares rose Thursday, boosted by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will begin winding down the extraordinary aid for the economy it has been providing since the early days of the pandemic. France’s CAC 40 added 0.5% in early trading to 6,984.21, while Germany’s DAX rose 0.5% to… Read More

‘Doug the Ugly Potato’ in NZ could be world’s biggest

Colin and Donna Craig-Brown were weeding their garden in New Zealand when Colin’s hoe struck something huge just beneath the soil’s surface. As the couple knelt down and began digging around the object, Colin wondered if it was some kind of strange fungal growth, a giant puffball. After Colin pried… Read More

Iran commemorates 42nd anniversary of hostage crisis

Thousands of Iranians gathered on Tehran streets Thursday for the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy, chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and burning American and Israeli flags. The embassy takeover triggered a 444-day hostage crisis and break in diplomatic relations that continues to this… Read More

30 probed for tweets suggesting that Erdogan died

Turkish authorities have initiated legal proceedings against 30 people over a series of Twitter posts suggesting that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had died, according to a police statement Wednesday. The police statement said the 30 were being investigated for sharing posts using the hashtag “olmus” in Turkish — which… Read More

Fishing banned in 190K square miles of the ocean

Four Latin American countries announced Tuesday that they will expand and unite their marine reserves to create a vast corridor in the Pacific Ocean in hopes of protecting sea turtles, tuna, squid, hammerhead sharks and other species. The new marine corridor will connect the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador with Colombia’s… Read More

Biden runs late, John Kerry does an ad lib to stall

U.S. President Joe Biden had an old, reliable stand-in when he fell behind schedule at the U.N. climate conference. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry tried to keep the program moving along when Biden didn’t show up on time for a Tuesday side event on reducing methane gas emissions.. Sponsored: Cholesterol… Read More

Yahoo pulls out of China over “challenging” atmosphere

Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has pulled out of China, citing an increasingly challenging operating environment. The withdrawal was largely symbolic, as many of the company’s services were already blocked by China’s digital censorship. But recent government moves to expand its control over tech companies generally, including its domestic giants,… Read More

100 countries vow to end deforestation at environment conference

More than 100 countries pledged Tuesday to end deforestation in the coming decade — a promise that experts say would be critical to limiting climate change but one that has been made and broken before. Britain hailed the commitment as the first big achievement of the U.N. climate conference known… Read More