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Key report says world on track for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C
Nov 11, 2021 06:21Global temperatures are likely to rise more than 2C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, with even the most optimistic scenario passing the Paris agreement’s 1.5C goal.
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US judge rules Trump White House records can be given to Capitol attack panel
Nov 11, 2021 06:17A US federal judge denied a request from former US President Donald Trump for an injunction aimed at temporarily blocking the National Archives from releasing records dating from his administration.
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Lawyer John Eastman and Michael Flynn among six subpoenaed by US Capitol attack panel
Nov 11, 2021 06:12The House select committee investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January is targeting about 20 individuals connected to the former US President Donald Trump command center at the Willard Hotel in Washington DC, among them the legal scholar John Eastman, who outlined ways to deny Joe Biden the presidency.
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US absolves drone killers and persecutes whistleblowers
Nov 11, 2021 06:06A Pentagon report treats the killing of an Afghan family as an innocent mistake — and upholds a U.S. tradition of excusing war crimes.
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2021 was terrible for North American glaciers
Nov 10, 2021 12:36Glaciers are like mother nature’s bank account. If more water is deposited into them than withdrawn, then the glacier had a year of positive mass balance. A negative mass balance means that the glacier lost more water.
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After Afghanistan disaster, the Pentagon is on track to get even more money (2)
Nov 10, 2021 12:33The defeat in Afghanistan offers a chance to rethink America’s war machine, but Congress is on the verge of raising military spending to $740 billion.
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Biden’s foreign policy undercut by domestic weakness
Nov 10, 2021 07:20US leader's credibility is sagging at home and abroad as speculation swirls about a possible Trump return in 2024.
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After Afghanistan disaster, the Pentagon is on track to get even more money (1)
Nov 09, 2021 14:25The defeat in Afghanistan offers a chance to rethink America’s war machine, but Congress is on the verge of raising military spending to $740 billion.
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Democrats deny political reality at their own peril
Nov 09, 2021 14:17Last Tuesday’s (2 November) election result trend lines were a political nightmare for the Democratic Party, and no Democrat who cares about winning elections in 2022 and the presidential race in 2024 should see them as anything less.
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Trapped in a pandemic funk: Millions of Americans can’t shake a gloomy outlook
Nov 09, 2021 06:50A year ago, Michael Macey, a barber who lives in the suburbs outside Atlanta, was thrilled to help propel President Biden to victory, hopeful that Democrats would move swiftly to tackle policing laws and other big issues. But then he watched his hopes for sweeping changes wither in Washington.