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Scientists Deliver “Final Warning” on Climate: Act Now or It’s Too Late

2023-03-20 17:44:24 +0000

his story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made […]

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Ron DeSantis Really Wants to Remind You That Trump Allegedly Paid Off a Porn Star

2023-03-20 17:09:47 +0000

Amid pressure to denounce a New York prosecutor who might soon indict Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis has finally decided to weigh in on the hush-money case swirling around the former president. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, DeSantis insisted, is a politically motivated “Soros-funded prosecutor” seeking to weaponize his office against a political enemy. But almost immediately after […]

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We’ve Got What It Takes to End Poverty in America

2023-03-20 10:00:54 +0000

Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by America, that’s bound to generate fruitful debate—and perhaps even inspire some of us to get off our asses and tackle this scourge once and for all. “In a nutshell, poverty […]

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The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie that Launched the Catastrophic War

2023-03-20 10:00:38 +0000

Before there was Donald Trump’s Big Lie, there was George W. Bush’s Big Lie. Twenty years ago this week, Bush and his sidekick Vice President Dick Cheney launched a war against Iraq. They greased the way to this tragic conflagration with the false claims that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed an arsenal of weapons of […]

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Do Solar Farms Really Hurt Property Values?

2023-03-20 10:00:07 +0000

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new study finds that houses within a half-mile of a utility-scale solar farm have resale prices that are, on average, 1.5 percent less than houses that are just a little farther away. The research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory […]

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I Am Donald Trump’s Only Hope

2023-03-19 20:02:56 +0000

When Donald Trump announced that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday, he called on supporters to take to the streets. “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” he wrote. Trump’s rhetoric spurred the Manhattan district attorney—who is reportedly conducting a criminal investigation of the former president—to promise security measures. It’s still unclear what any such MAGA […]

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How Ron DeSantis Ignited a Republican Civil War Over Ukraine

2023-03-19 18:30:45 +0000

As a leading contender for Republican presidential nomination next year, Ron DeSantis has the ability to force the rest of his party to quickly take sides on political fights. That’s what happened this week, after the Florida governor described the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” in which the United States does not […]

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Manhattan Prosecutor Promises Security After Trump Calls for Protests

2023-03-19 15:04:20 +0000

History has shown that when Donald Trump calls for protests, violence may be around the corner. So when the former president lashed out at the Manhattan prosecutor’s office on Saturday, District Attorney Alvin Bragg had to prepare for the worst. “Our law enforcement partners will ensure that any specific or credible threats against the office […]

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These Small States Punch Above Their Weight on Clean Energy

2023-03-19 10:00:24 +0000

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s not surprising that gigantic states like Texas and California are among the heaviest hitters in generating electricity from wind and solar. But what if we look at generation per square mile of land? Then, the leader is Iowa. Iowa […]

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Wyoming Bans Abortion Pills

2023-03-18 20:06:15 +0000

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed a bill Friday prohibiting abortion pills, making it the first state to ban abortion medication independent of an overall ban on abortion. Separate legislation, which Gordon did not sign but allowed to become law, put a near-total abortion ban into place. The majority of abortions are performed with medication. Wyoming’s only […]

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