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50 years in the making: Why it took US Congress so long to act on climate
In 1969, President Richard Nixon's adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a memo describing a startling future. Fifty-three years later, Congress is on the cusp of finally responding to what Moynihan had termed 'the carbon dioxide problem'
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US Senate adopts sweeping climate and health plan, in major victory for Biden
The plan, crafted in sensitive talks with members on the right wing of his Democratic Party, would include the biggest US investment ever on climate—$370 billion aimed at effecting a 40 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
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More Ukraine grain sets sail amid new strike at nuclear site
Recent fighting at the plant has prompted the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to warn of "the very real risk of a nuclear disaster"
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Gas crunch pushes German glassmaker to the brink
In 400 years, Heinz-Glas, one of the world's biggest producers of glass perfume bottles, has seen off many crises—including the two World Wars and the oil shock of the 1970s in the last century alone
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Five sci-fi classics, one summer: How 1982 shaped our present
Whether the summer of '82 represented the gentrification of cinematic sci-fi or its artistic apex, the genre's synthesis of spectacle and sociology had been underway for some time
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A large object landed on his sheep farm. It came from space
The US space agency, NASA, said in a statement that SpaceX confirmed that the object was likely the remaining part of the jettisoned trunk segment from a Dragon spacecraft used during the Crew-1 mission's return from the International Space Station in May last year
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Warner Bros. Discovery aims for 130 million subscribers by 2025
Warner Bros. Discovery, a media colossus formed this year by the fusion of the parent companies of HBO and Animal Planet, revealed the scope and strategy of its streaming ambitions for the first time: that it would offer free and paid services with an ambitious goal
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India withdraws a proposed law on data protection
The Indian government on Wednesday unexpectedly withdrew a proposed bill on data protection—the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, that a panel of lawmakers had been laboring over for more than two years, saying it was working on a new law
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Alibaba quarterly revenue flat for first time ever in June
Alibaba's performance is widely seen as a gauge of Chinese consumer sentiment, given its market dominance, and is reflective of the country's economic slowdown and Covid-19 resurgences that have kept consumers jittery
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Twitter says Elon Musk making up excuses to breach deal
In a filing, Twitter rejected counter claims made by Musk as he fights to walk away from the deal he inked in April to buy the San Francisco-based company
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How streaming stars pay the price of online fame
Twitch, more than Instagram, Twitter or TikTok, is an intimate platform, designed to make its stars seem like actual friends of their fans, hanging out virtually with them. Those cozy relationships are a core part of the site's business model. But they sometimes turn unhealthy