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Former Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryKerry: Fight against climate change should be treated like a ‘war’ John Kerry launches ‘World War Zero’ climate activism coalition Sunday shows preview: Washington gears up for next round of impeachment hearings MORE said Sunday that the fight against climate change should be treated like a war as […]

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday told the leaders of each military service that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTop Democrat: ‘Obstruction of justice’ is ‘too clear not to include’ in impeachment probe Former US intel official says Trump would often push back in briefings Schiff says investigators seeking to identify who […]

AIR CARE: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday released its newest definition for ambient air in a move critics say will ease burdens on polluting industries. On its surface, the guidance deals less directly with air quality than it does with fencing. Though seemingly unrelated, the Clean Air Act doesn’t apply to spaces where […]

The Samoan government will shut down for two days this week amid a measles outbreak that has killed 53 people, according to The Washington Post. The island nation declared the outbreak in October. The vast majority of the deaths — 48 — have been children under the age of 3. More than 3,700 people have […]

Acting Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said this week he has received a directive from President TrumpDonald John TrumpTop Democrat: ‘Obstruction of justice’ is ‘too clear not to include’ in impeachment probe Former US intel official says Trump would often push back in briefings Schiff says investigators seeking to identify who Giuliani spoke to on unlisted […]

A United Nations special investigator said Tuesday that the world has “failed” in its duty to bring the killers of American-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi to justice. Agnes Callamard, a U.N. rapporteur for extrajudicial executions, told reporters in Brussels that the European Union and the U.S. need to do more in response to Khashoggi’s killing by […]

The Trump administration has released $105 million in military aid to Lebanon after months of withholding the money without explanation, The Associated Press reported. The Foreign Military Financing funds meant for the Lebanese Armed Forces were released ahead of Thanksgiving, and lawmakers were notified of the move on Monday, two congressional staffers and an administration official told the […]

The U.S. Navy will spend about $22 billion to purchase nine new nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarines as it seeks to maintain superiority over China’s growing Navy. According to a Navy release Tuesday, the commission for the new ships will be fulfilled by General Dynamics Electric Boat and subcontractor Huntington Ingalls Industries at a shipyard in Rhode Island employing […]

Mexico’s government said Sunday that it had detained several suspects in the slaying of several members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect with dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. An official with the office of Mexico’s attorney general told The New York Times that multiple suspects had been detained Sunday in an operation, though no other information was immediately […]

The House approved legislation Tuesday calling on the Trump administration to sanction Chinese officials over human rights violations involving the nation’s predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group. The House version of the bill, which passed in a 407-1 vote on Tuesday evening, amends an earlier Senate bill to place restrictions on the export of devices that could […]