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CLIMATEWIRE | Negotiators struck a fragile agreement Saturday over the outlines of an international fund for climate-ravaged countries after hours of acrimonious haggling foreshadowed likely divisions at the global climate talks later this month. The agreement, stitched tenuously together long after sunset in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, included a provision demanded by the U.S. that […]
The F.B.I. director warned Tuesday that the Israel-Hamas war had raised the potential for an attack against Americans to a new level and escalated threats against Jews and Muslims in the United States. Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, said foreign terrorist organizations had called for violence against Jews after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea lashed out Friday at the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in South Korea, calling it a provocation and again raising the specter of using nuclear weapons to defend itself. Emboldened by its advancing nuclear arsenal, North Korea has increasingly issued
Ed Johnetta Miller, a fiber artist, quilter, teacher, curator, and lecturer based in Hartford, is renowned as one of the most creative and colorful improvisational quiltmakers in the U.S. Widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally, her quilts can be found in many important museums and corporate and private collections, including The National Gallery of […]
China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, met with Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, in Beijing on Monday and expressed hopes of “peaceful coexistence” between China and the United States, even as escalating violence in the Middle East threatens to deepen a wedge between the two powers. “We have 1,000 reasons to make China-U.S. relations work […]
Oct 4 (Reuters) – Headway, a healthcare tech startup that connects patients and in-network therapists, has raised $125 million in Series C funding, the company told Reuters. The round of financing, which valued the company at $1 billion, was led by Spark Capital with participation from existing investors including Thrive Capital, Accel, and Andreessen Horowitz. […]
CNN — The indictment unveiled on Friday against
When a Black veteran began peppering Ron DeSantis with questions about recent gun policies in connection with the Jacksonville shooting, the Florida governor defended himself and talked over him before the veteran was eventually removed from the news conference altogether. “I feel that you have enacted policies that hurt people like myself,” the veteran said, […]
When Shelley Bruce was first offered the lease of the top floor of a stunning 11,200-square-feet exposed brick loft in downtown L.A.’s Arts District in December 2021, she did not imagine it one day becoming her own BIPOC community center. “It was kind of still the pandemic and I was like, ‘You all must be […]
July 26, 2023 at 2:16 a.m. EDT Russian conscripts gather at a recruitment center in Sevastopol, Crimea, on July 6. (Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters) Russia’s lower house has passed legislation that will raise the country’s maximum draft age from 27 to 30 as Moscow scrambles to find fighters for its war in Ukraine. The changes will be […]