Donald Trump is the accidental hero of a real-life feelgood climate tale even as a creeping horror story plays alongside | Clear Air

Despite a deadly heatwave sweeping through Europe, the US president’s ineptness has created reason for optimism on the climate crisisSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereTwo real-life climate-themed movies are playing in parallel across the globe. They are about the world today, but they are also a snapshot of the future. The first is a slow-building horror story; the second, a feelgood summer hit. Both are worth watching.Horror films are suddenly box-office gold, so let’s start there. The World Health Organisation says the extreme, record-breaking heatwave blanketing Europe has killed more than 1,300 people. But everyone knows that number will end up a dramatic understatement. Continue reading...

‘Egregious’: Two people charged in alleged multi-million dollar Medicaid fraud scheme

Two defendants have been charged for their involvement in an alleged multi-million dollar medical care fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New […]

The City of Buffalo Pulls Two Boneheaded Stunts Ahead of Independence Day, and No One Is Laughing

‘King of the dirtbags’: Fetterman on Platner’s Kik and ex-girlfriend baggage

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) blasted Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, as the “king of the dirtbags,” highlighting growing tensions within the party after another socialist won a congressional primary in Colorado. After a sweeping win from Melot Kiros, a 29-year-old socialist, in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District over Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and […]

‘King Trump’ is stronger than ever after US supreme court bolsters his agenda

Birthright citizenship ruling only a surface level setback, with the court granting president’s multiple power grabsThe symbolic and high profile defeats cannot obscure a more uncomfortable truth.The US supreme court – a vital cog in the US constitutional framers’ vision of an intricate system of checks and balances aimed at reining in an excessively assertive president – has made Donald Trump stronger than ever, and shows little inclination to stop. Continue reading...

Two people climb to top of NYC's Empire State Building

At one point while at the top of the building, one individual appeared to propose marriage to the other.

The Supreme Court protected child rapists from execution. Two states said no

In 2008, the Supreme Court held that executing a man for raping a child violated the Eighth Amendment. Sixteen years later, Florida and Tennessee passed laws saying it doesn’t. One of those statutes is heading to the current Supreme Court. What happens next depends on whether five justices are willing to scrap a defective constitutional […]

Supreme Court just delivered a one-two punch against Donald Trump

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