Research by anti-poverty charity Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute reveals carbon dioxide emissions rose by 60 percent from 1990 to 2015. The report blames the wealthiest one percent for 15 percent of those emissions. That is more than twice as much carbon dioxide as emitted by the poorer half of the world. The study...
The Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made the always controversial issue of abortion an even more pressing matter for voters who will elect the US president in November.
A new kind of Kentucky license plate has started appearing on vehicles across the state. The biggest difference is in the way the new plates are manufactured. They're digitally printed … Click to Continue »
Film agencies in Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced an agreement Monday to collaborate on television production, the latest development to follow a U.S.-brokered deal between the countries to … Click to Continue »
North Carolina will use a $47.5 million federal grant to purchase a rail line needed to advance planned high-speed passenger train service between Raleigh and Richmond, Virginia. The money, announced … Click to Continue »
An animal welfare charity is searching for a new home for a Polish cockerel called Stevie Wonder.
Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders are holding talks aimed at resolving a tense months-long stand-off along their disputed border in the mountainous Ladakh region.