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EU leaders ready countermeasures to pressure from Russia, China and Trump
BILZEN-HOESELT, Belgium (AP) — European Union leaders broadly agreed Thursday on a plan to restructure the 27-nation bloc’s economy to make it more competitive as they face antagonism from U.S. President Donald Trump, strong-arm tactics from China and hybrid threats blamed on Russia.Meeting in a Belgian castle, the EU leaders agreed an “action plan” with a strict timeline for the economic restructuring, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “The pressure and the sense of urgency is enormous, and that can move mountains,” she said.
The... Read More
Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations.The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
The endangerment finding by the Obama administration is the legal... Read More
Scientists say genetic analysis could greatly speed restoration of iconic American chestnut
WASHINGTON (AP) — Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. Every Christmas, they're called to mind by the holiday lyric “chestnuts roasting on an open fire.”But by the 1950s, this venerable tree went functionally extinct, culled by a deadly airborne fungal blight and lethal root rot. A new study out Thursday in the journal Science provides hope for its revitalization, finding that the genetic testing of individual trees can reveal which are most likely to... Read More
Winter Olympics recap: Brignone completes dramatic comeback and Ukrainian athlete excluded
MILAN (AP) — An all-time great comeback and a controversial exclusion are dominating the Milan Cortina Olympics on Day 6.Later Thursday, Chloe Kim of the United States seeks to become the first snowboarder to win three straight Olympic gold medals in women's halfpipe. And NHL players on the U.S. and Canada teams are joining the action in their opening men's hockey games.
Brignone back in style
For much of last year, it wasn't clear if Italian skier Federica Brignone could compete at her home Olympics at all, let alone contend for a medal.
She... Read More
Lawyers say access to 'Alligator Alcatraz' is still hard to get as a judge weighs the case
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for detainees at a state-run immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” said Thursday that they are still facing hurdles in getting access to their clients, despite state claims that those barriers have been removed.Two attorneys filed statements with a federal court in Fort Myers, Florida, saying their clients were unable to call them using staff cellphones, and the attorneys were unable to make unannounced visits to the facility.
A state contractor late last month testified that both... Read More
Top Stories
- Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change
- Scientists say genetic analysis could greatly speed restoration of iconic American chestnut
- Winter Olympics recap: Brignone completes dramatic comeback and Ukrainian athlete excluded
- Judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for call to resist unlawful orders
- Remote community grieves the 8 killed in Canada's deadliest attack in years
- US stocks drop as investors try to separate AI losers from winners
- Investigators ask for surveillance video from specific dates in Nancy Guthrie disappearance
- Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota
- Russia fires barrage at Ukrainian cities as next round of US-brokered talks is unclear
- Key Democrat accuses the Justice Department of 'spying' on lawmakers reviewing Epstein files
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- Love is found in unexpected places at the Berlin Film Festival
- Pene Pati rises from doubted Samoan singer to one of Opera's most-watched new stars
- Kennedy Center head warns staff of cuts and 'skeletal' staffing during renovation closure
- Actor Blake Lively and director Justin Baldoni go to New York in required effort to avoid trial
Sports
- Canada shows why it's the Olympic favorite by routing Czechia 5-0 in its tournament opener
- Ukrainian athlete tests the Olympic rules on free speech â and gets disqualified
- Utah's Jaren Jackson Jr. will have surgery on knee growth that was found during post-trade physical
- Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych out of Winter Olympics because of banned helmet honoring war dead