New York to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change
“The Climate Change Superfund Act is now law, and New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: the companies ...
Officials ID woman killed in Bridgeport apartment fire on Connecticut Avenue
The woman killed in the Connecticut Avenue apartment fire in Bridgeport has been identified as 26-year-old Fabienne Laramee.
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An altercation erupts at a high-level meeting of a Russia-dominated economic union
MOSCOW (AP) — A tightly-scripted meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of several ex-Soviet nations briefly went ...
Haiti’s health minister loses his job after a deadly gang attack on a hospital in the capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post, government officials told The Associated ...
The US says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern.
North Gaza has been one of the areas hardest-hit by fighting and Israel’s restrictions on aid throughout its war with Hamas ...
India's former prime minister Manmohan Singh, architect of economic reforms, dies aged 92
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform ...
Peyote sacred to Native Americans threatened by psychedelic renaissance and development
While at least one group spearheaded by Native American Church leaders has begun efforts to conserve and propagate peyote ...
Why this Mexican American woman played a vital role in the US sacramental peyote trade
The beloved Mexican American peyotera — who was the first authorized dealer of peyote in the United States — not only played ...
Five facts about electric vehicles in 2024
The best-selling pure electric vehicles were the Tesla Model Y, followed by the Tesla Model 3 — both globally and in the U.S.
Number of registered lobbyists jumps to a record high in California
California saw its biggest increase in registered lobbyists last session since at least 2011, when a change in the law caused the number to more than double.
As Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht prepares to retire, he reflects on the court he helped change
Born in Clovis, New Mexico, Hecht studied philosophy at Yale before getting his law degree from Southern Methodist University. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and ...
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NYC taxi driver was having a medical episode when he jumped the curb and hit people, police say
NEW YORK (AP) — A taxi driver whose car hit six pedestrians when he jumped a curb in a Manhattan shopping district on Christmas Day was having a medical episode at the time, New York City police said ...