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Enlarge United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres had just returned from a visit to flooded Pakistan when he stepped before the UN General Assembly to give a speech on Tuesday. Poverty-stricken regions experiencing the most severe climate change impacts like Pakistan were front-of-mind when he declared, “Today, I am calling on all developed economies to tax […]
Enlarge / LONDON – Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond poses with the budget box at 11 Downing Street before the announcement of the Autumn Budget Statement in the House of Commons on October 29, 2018. (credit: Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) Britain’s top financial official has included a new “tech tax” […]
Community advocates say legal marijuana has been thrust upon them and they didn’t have a say.
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: Anthony Quintano / Flickr) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took an apologetic tone in a call with reporters Wednesday afternoon, weeks after the Cambridge Analytica debacle that has put a new level of pressure on the social media giant. “We didn’t think about how people could use these tools […]
Screenshot/CNN CNN host Chris Cuomo grilled White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on the Trump administration’s Monday decision not to impose new sanctions on Russia. Cuomo argued that the Trump administration is refusing to punish Russia for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. “They interfered in the election to try to disrupt our democracy,” Cuomo […]
The Trump administration indicated on Monday that it would not seek specific sanctions against Russian operatives for its meddling in the 2016 US election. President Donald Trump signed into law in August a bill designed to curb billions of dollars in Russian defense sales. The US State Department says the effects of that law are […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | MarsBars) Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wants to impose a budget cap on the Lifeline program that helps poor people buy broadband and phone service. Under previous Chairman Tom Wheeler, the 32-year-old Lifeline program was expanded to let poor people use a $ 9.25 monthly household subsidy to buy Internet […]
Baghdad has deployed its military and pro-government militias to secure Kurdish Peshmerga-controlled bases and federal installations near Kirkuk, urging them to “avoid confrontations” and “protect all civilians” in the multi-ethnic, oil-rich region. Early Monday morning, Iraqi government troops supported by the People’s Mobilization Forces (PMF), a state-loyal umbrella organization composed of some 40 militias, have […]
The UK Government recently revealed that they would be banning the sales of all petrol and diesel cars in the UK by 2040, in a shock new move to tackle pollution. Car manufacturers have since stated their intentions to push towards electrification with Volvo and Maserati both revealing that from 2019 all cars produced with […]
US senators will soon introduce new sanctions targeting financial institutions dealing with Pyongyang. The bill threatens to expel those conducting business with North Korea from the US financial system. US Senators Chris Van Hollen (D- Maryland) and Patrick Toomey (R- Pennsylvania) proposed bipartisan legislation on Wednesday aimed at “achieving a nuclear free Korean Peninsula” after […]
