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Florida Man Loses Canadian Election

Preliminary results projected by CBC in Canada’s snap federal election, which took place Monday, suggest that the country’s Liberal Party—which is currently in power—will win enough seats in the Canadian parliament to allow party leader Mark Carney to remain Prime Minister, though it remains unclear whether with a majority or minority government. In some ways, […]


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Trump Just Fast-Tracked Deep Sea Mining, Despite Global Opposition

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump wants federal agencies to fast-track applications for deep-sea mining in an effort to make the United States a global leader in the nascent industry.  Trump issued an executive order Thursday declaring that US policy includes “creating a […]


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China’s Xi Prepares to Eat America’s Lunch as Trump Cedes Leadership on Clean Energy

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. China will continue to push forward on the climate crisis, Xi Jinping has said while appearing to criticize the “protectionism” of Donald Trump’s tariff policies. The Chinese president was attending a closed-door virtual meeting with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, Brazil’s president, Luiz […]


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Trump Keeps Falsely Claiming Ukraine Started the War With Russia

On Sunday night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an interview featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who once again deplored the fact that US officials have been promoting Russian disinformation about the war between the two countries. By Monday morning, President Donald Trump proved his point once more. Through a translator, Zelenskyy told 60 Minutes Correspondent Scott […]


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How a Small African Nation Scrambled to Appease Trump on Tariffs

President Donald Trump has not been particularly kind to the small African nation of Lesotho. His administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development hit the nation of about 2.3 million people hard, by cutting millions of dollars of funding for public health and other programs. In March, he ridiculed the country during […]


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