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US retires database tracking billions of dollars of climate change-fueled weather damage
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is retiring its public database meant to keep track of the cost of losses ...
The EU publishes a US product hit list and prepares for WTO action against Trump’s tariffs
The European Union published on Thursday a list of U.S. imports that it would target with retaliatory duties if no solution ...
Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, overcame a taboo against a US pontiff
Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other US tech leaders testify to Congress on AI competition with China
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the ...
Cash-strapped Bureau of Prisons freezes some hiring to ‘avoid more extreme measures,’ director says
The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic understaffing has led to long overtime shifts and the use of prison ...