Lawyers to Plastics Makers: Prepare for ‘Astronomical’ PFAS Lawsuits
The defense lawyer minced no words as he addressed a room full of plastic-industry executives. Prepare for a wave of lawsuits with potentially “astronomical” costs....
Pope Issues Apology After Reports That He Used Offensive Slang Word
Pope Issues Apology After Reports That He Used Offensive Slang Word...
Calls Mount to Let Ukraine Strike Russia With Western Weapons
Calls are mounting among Western nations to allow attacks on Russian territory using weapons that they have sent the Ukrainian military, a measure that Ukraine...
World Leaders Denounce Deadly Strike in Rafah
An Israeli airstrike on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that killed dozens of displaced Palestinians drew widespread international condemnation Monday, with world leaders calling...
Why Lawmakers Are Brawling and People Are Protesting in Taiwan
Opposition lawmakers in Taiwan pushed through measures on Tuesday that could challenge the powers of the new president, Lai Ching-te, defying tens of thousands of...
Latest Israel, Gaza and Rafah News: 3 Countries to Formally Recognize Palestinian Statehood
An Israeli airstrike on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that killed dozens of displaced Palestinians drew widespread international condemnation Monday, with world leaders calling...
What We Know About the Papua New Guinea Landslide
Nearly five days after a landslide devastated a remote section of Papua New Guinea, officials in the Pacific Island nation have begun evacuating residents, because...
Carbon Offsets, a Much-Criticized Climate Tool, Get Federal Guidelines
The Biden administration on Tuesday laid out for the first time a set of broad government guidelines around the use of carbon offsets in an...
War-Weary Iraqis Feel for Gaza, but Fear Spread of the Conflict
Iraqis have known the bitter taste of war so intimately and frequently over the past 40 years that they say they can feel viscerally the...
Climate Change Added a Month’s Worth of Extra-Hot Days in Past Year
Over the past year of record-shattering warmth, the average person on Earth experienced 26 more days of abnormally high temperatures than they otherwise would have,...
Cyclone Remal Tears Through Bangladesh, Killing at Least 13
At least 13 people were killed and millions were left without power in Bangladesh after Cyclone Remal, the first tropical storm of the season, hit...
Cyclone Remal Uproots Trees, Rips Down Power Lines in Bangladesh
Cyclone Remal Uproots Trees, Rips Down Power Lines in Bangladesh...
Tuesday Briefing – The New York Times
An Israeli strike on Rafah killed at least 45 people The day after an airstrike killed dozens of displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza city...
South Africa’s Young Democracy Leaves Its Young Voters Disillusioned
At the dawn of South Africa’s democracy after the fall of the racist apartheid government, millions lined up before sunrise to cast their ballots in...