What were the 2026 midterm elections, and what was at stake? On November 3, 2026, American voters went to the polls for the first major federal elections of President Donald Trump’s second term. Every seat in the House of Representatives,…
Southeast Asia can still meet the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious climate target, but only if governments across the region accept higher energy costs as the price of decarbonization. That was the central message delivered Tuesday by Guillaume Lucci, president and…
A large homeless encampment sheltering beneath a Los Angeles freeway overpass became the focus of a significant enforcement operation this week, resulting in more than 25 arrests and the rescue of dogs, cats, chickens and roosters after animal advocates raised…
Fulshear, a fast-growing suburb west of Houston, is moving forward with a $520 million plan to build a genuine town center — a pedestrian-friendly mixed-use district designed to give the community something most Texas suburbs conspicuously lack: a place to…
A Policy Change With Real Human Costs For years, a pain physician’s patient lived with chronic pelvic pain she described as a hot poker. A targeted nerve block eliminated that pain entirely. Through tears, the patient said she had forgotten…
Boston approved it. The permits came through faster than anyone expected. The city needed the housing desperately. And then, according to a lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, the investment partners who owned the land decided they’d rather blow up…
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is drawing a hard line on a proposed $67 billion merger between Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy, filing expert testimony with the State Corporation Commission this week that sets consumer protections as a non-negotiable precondition for…
JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that its Security and Resiliency Initiative — a sweeping, decade-long, $1.5 trillion commitment to financing industries deemed critical to national security and economic stability — has completed a striking first year, deploying $5 billion in equity…
What did scientists actually find, and why does it matter? A landmark long-term study from Germany has uncovered something that challenges a widely held assumption in climate science: certain forest soils are not merely passive bystanders in the methane cycle…
New York City has opened a 90-day window for homeowners and small business owners to settle outstanding municipal fine debt at a discount — and for many working-class New Yorkers buried under compounding interest, the clock is already running. Mayor…