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Activists sound alarm at COP29 in Azerbaijan
Delegates from nations across the world are in Azerbaijan for the COP29 climate summit as data shows the highest greenhouse gas emissions ever recorded occurred in 2023. CBS News national ...Top stories - CBS News - 3 days ago -
Yellen sounds alarm on 'deeply misguided' tariffs as Trump digs in
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will call out plans to vastly increase the scale of U.S. tariffs in a Thursday speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, taking a thinly veiled shot at former ...Politics - The Hill - October 17 -
WSJ Tech Live: Executives, Investors and Artists Debate AI's Potential
Andreessen Horowitz’s Martin Casado says tech policy is in a ‘dangerous place.’Tech - The Wall Street Journal - October 23 -
US sounds alarm over North Korean troops training in Russia
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has confirmed reports, and satellite images from South Korea show, that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia for training and could be deployed to ...Top stories - NBC News - October 24 -
Sick man of Europe? Germany’s bosses sound alarm on staff illness
Studies claim that fewer sick days would have stopped the country’s economy shrinking last yearBusiness - Financial Times - November 1 -
Federal officials sound alarm over fake election videos tied to Russia
Three top government agencies are calling out two fabricated videos spreading lies about early voting, and they say a familiar foe is to blame. Nicole Sganga has more.Top stories - CBS News - November 1 -
Kamala Harris says Trump is a fascist at CNN town hall in Pennsylvania - live updates
Vice-president appears with host Anderson Cooper at event where Trump declined to appear. The Labour party has put out a statement rejecting allegations that it broke US election law because ...World - The Guardian - October 24 -
Samantha Bee sounds the alarm on abortion access with pre-Election Day release of short film: 'Now really is the time'
Comedian Samantha Bee says now "really is the time" to get the word out about the film she executive produced focused on reproductive rights, which is why the Academy Award-nominated project is ...Politics - The Hill - November 1 -
Crazy Is Beginning to Sound Like an Understatement
Election Day can’t come soon enough.Top stories - The New York Times - October 28 -
Quincy Jones Orchestrated the Sound of America
Jones, who died at 91, erased boundaries, connected worlds and embraced delight. As a producer, he coaxed ingenuity from his players and singers.Top stories - The New York Times - November 5 -
COP29: In Donald Trump’s shadow
Can the world fight climate change without the US?Top stories - BBC News - 2 days ago -
An Alarming Glimpse Into a Future of Historic Droughts
Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight ...World - The New York Times - October 21 -
COP29 Climate Talks Focus on Financing
Negotiators agree that trillions are needed to help lower-income countries adapt and cope, but not on who should pay.Science - The New York Times - Yesterday -
Big matchups, storylines and sounds ahead of Week 9
Our college football experts preview LSU-Texas A&M and other big games.Sports - ESPN - October 26 -
Activo P1 Review: Wired Sound, Tired Looks
Activo's P1 is a decent portable music player, but it looks pretty bland.Tech - Wired - November 1 -
Violinist Ezinma on blending classical and contemporary sounds
Violinist Ezinma is bringing classical and contemporary music together. Her sound is capturing the attention of stars like Beyoncé and reimagining how audiences experience the violin.Top stories - CBS News - 6 hours ago -
West’s spy chiefs alarmed at recklessness of Russian counterparts
After expulsion of hundreds of embassy-based spies, Kremlin is using riskier and less conventional methods. A developing Russian campaign of arson, sabotage and even murder plots has left western ...World - The Guardian - October 16 -
Harris's struggles with young men raise alarms for Democrats
Vice President Harris’s polling with young men is raising alarm bells for Democrats as the campaign works to keep cracks from forming in the party’s coalition less than two weeks out from Election ...Politics - The Hill - October 25 -
New wave of mass killings in Sudan alarms UN
Paramilitary fighters are accused of committing "atrocious crimes" in Gezira state.Top stories - BBC News - October 27 -
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Third of world's tree species slide towards extinction, say scientists
Scientists have revealed that more than a third of tree species are facing extinction.Top stories - BBC News - October 28 -
US raises alarm over Georgia’s elections
The U.S. and European allies are raising alarm over Georgia’s elections, where the Russian-friendly ruling party Georgian Dream (GD) claimed victory over opposition parties that have refused to ...Politics - The Hill - October 29 -
Biden alarmed at Georgia's disputed election and 'Russian laws'
The US president calls on Georgia's government to respond to concern at the scale of violations.Top stories - BBC News - October 29 -
Rapid spread of election disinformation stokes alarm
Experts and political figures are sounding the alarm on the spread of election disinformation on social media, putting leading platforms under intense scrutiny in the final days of the presidential ...Politics - The Hill - November 5 -
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Trump’s Pentagon pick sparks alarm — and scorn
Pete Hegseth’s nomination as head of the world’s most powerful defence department has baffled WashingtonWorld - Financial Times - 11 hours ago -
What would a good outcome at Cop29 look like?
Focus will be on climate finance and improving on current goal of providing $100bn a year to poor countries. This year’s UN climate summit, being held in Azerbaijan, is focused on finance , and ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
All you need to know about COP29
Leaders heading to the annual UN climate talks have a lot of other distractions to contend withTop stories - BBC News - 6 days ago -
Cop29: what are carbon credits and why are they so controversial?
Once heavily scorned because of fraud and poor outcomes, carbon trading is likely to be high on the agenda in Baku. For the next two weeks, countries will gather on the shores of the Caspian Sea in ...World - The Guardian - 4 days ago -
COP29 Talks Open in Baku in the Shadow of Trump’s Election
The election of Donald J. Trump is sapping momentum from global climate talks as diplomats brace for his pro-fossil-fuel agenda.Top stories - The New York Times - 3 days ago -
Why Is COP29 Being Held in Baku, Azerbaijan?
The economy of Azerbaijan, host of COP29, relies almost entirely on the fossil fuels that are the main driver of global warming.Top stories - The New York Times - 3 days ago -
COP29 climate summit begins today. Will it be the last for the U.S.?
As delegates from nearly 200 countries gather for a major international summit on climate change, they're confronting a new era of uncertainty for the U.S. under a second Trump administration.Top stories - CBS News - 3 days ago -
COP29, the U.N. conference on climate change, underway in Azerbaijan
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, is underway in Azerbaijan at a time when the U.S. is producing more oil than any country and is expected to produce more when President-elect ...Top stories - CBS News - 3 days ago -
Trump's climate policy looms over COP29
A major climate summit kicked off in Azerbaijan on Monday amid uncertainty over U.S. commitments to combatting global warming. President-elect Donald Trump has said he will exit the Paris Climate ...Top stories - CBS News - 2 days ago -
Cop29: UK commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions must be ‘starting point, not finish line’, climate advisers say – live updates
Climate scientists and advisers back new UK commitment but warn that there is still work to be done. In the halls of Cop29, activists from Oil Change International gathered around a computer to ...World - The Guardian - 2 days ago -
Biden Officials Try to Reassure COP29 Climate Talks
Negotiators at the summit in Azerbaijan fear that the return of Donald Trump will sap momentum for global climate action.Science - The New York Times - 11 hours ago -
Oil and gas are a 'gift of god', says COP29 host
Azerbaijan's president said countries should not be blamed for having fossil fuel reserves.Top stories - BBC News - 2 days ago
