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Family Seeks Big Oil Accountability in Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Climate Related Death

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Oil and Gas Sector · United States See the Story

Elon Musk came to Washington wielding a chain saw. He leaves behind upheaval and unmet expectations: AP

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Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm.Elon Musk · United States See the Story

US government employee charged with trying to give classified information to a foreign government

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An information technology specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with attempting to transmit classified information to a representative of a foreign government.Donald Trump See the Story

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest dried out? This decades-long experiment has some answers

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A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest.But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, is a scientific experiment. Launched in 2000 by Brazilian and British scientists, Esecaflor — short for “Forest Drought Study Project” in Portuguese— set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall. It is the longest-running project of its kind in the world, and has become a source for dozens of academic articles in fields ranging from meteorology to ecology and physiology.Amazon Rainforest · Brazil See the Story

Ex-WWE executive agrees to help accuser in sex abuse lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE

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WWE · United States See the Story

Fired federal tech staffers file retaliation claim to a panel whose chairwoman Trump also fired

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US Politics · United States See the Story

Supreme Court limits environmental review of major infrastructure projects

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The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the scope of environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects in a decision that could speed approvals of highways, airports and pipelines.US Supreme Court · United States See the Story

Why Trump, the ‘Peacemaker,’ can’t secure peace

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By Lawrence S. Wittner In recent years, Donald Trump has frequently billed himself as a bringer of peace. During 2023 and 2024, as he campaigned for re-election, he declared at least 53 times that he would end the Ukraine War within 24 hours of taking office or even before that. Referring to peace for Ukraine before a gathering in Council Bluffs, Iowa in July 2023, he insisted: “I’ll get that done within 24 hours. Everyone says, ‘Oh, no, you ca…Gaza · Gaza Read Article