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On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the German pharmaceutical and agrochemical giant Bayer cannot be sued in state courts for failing to...
Donald Trump dreamed of turning the Lincoln Reflecting Pool “American Flag Blue” in advance of celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary on...
The United States and Iran have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, or (MOU), to end an Iran War that—when it began—Congressional Democrats...
A fifth of the world’s oil supplies typically flow through the Strait of Hormuz. Amid America’s disastrous war of choice against Iran, it’s now...
There is a non-zero chance that Jared Kushner will play a pivotal and entirely accidental role in bringing down the government of Albania. Over the...
Ahead of going public, Anthropic is nearing a $1 trillion valuation, surpassing OpenAI—now valued at $862 billion—to become the world’s most...
Colombia may be on the verge of electing a far-right president who’s mused about how much fun he had blowing up cats as a kid. On Sunday, in a...
It would be hard to know from his campaign alone what office exactly Bo French is running for. He’s raged about the supposed “Islamification” of...
Summer is just getting started, and people are already dying. Western Europe is sweltering through a climate-fueled “heat dome” that has trapped...
Over the last few weeks, the United States right loudly claimed victory in a battle that few people on earth knew was happening. The National...
Every now and again, a billionaire doesn’t get what he wants. On Monday, Elon Musk was handed a rare loss when a federal jury in San Francisco...
FEMA is not all right. As the United States faces another summer of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change, the Federal Emergency Management...
Democrats—who mostly aren’t talking about climate change—are continuing to debate whether they should talk about climate change.
In the coming decades, New Orleans will be surrounded by ocean. That’s the contention of a paper published this week in Nature Sustainability. It...
The Strait of Hormuz is still closed, and it isn’t poised to open anytime soon. Donald Trump signaled on Wednesday that he intends to keep the U.S....
For an uncomfortably long time on Monday, two lawmakers shouted at one another about climate change in a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing...
Every week, it seems, Waymos pop up in another U.S. city. And as these Alphabet-backed robotaxis spread, so do the fights over them, at just about...
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a fairly explosive investigation into the birth of the Supreme Court’s modern shadow docket....
This week, scientists reported that the collapse of a critical Atlantic current system is more likely than many of them feared. The Atlantic...
Last month was the hottest March ever recorded in the United States. This week, the Northeast and Plains states are sweating through record-breaking...
Data center construction isn’t going as planned. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that nearly half of the 12 gigawatts in computing power worth...
OpenAI has a New Deal to sell you. On Monday, the embattled tech company released an “industrial policy” blueprint that lays out a series of...
The cars on display at the New York City International Auto Show, which opened to the public at the end of last week, have a lot in common. There are...
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is losing sleep. That’s what he told a crowd on Juju Island earlier this week while discussing the...
Something strange is happening in the global economy.
Amid the deadly, illegal, half-baked war the U.S. and Israeli governments are waging against Iran, Donald Trump has managed to stick to his morning...