U.S. farmers facing steep losses this year welcomed President Donald Trump's $12 billion aid package announced on Monday, but said they would need more than that to fully offset low crop prices and lost export opportunities from his trade war. read more
From Yale Climate Connections: According to a new study, one of the first estimates of sea level rise made by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change closely matches what actually happened over the past 30 years. Torbjorn Tornqvist of Tulane University: "What we found was that they did remarkably well." In the 90s, the IPCC released a report with different scenarios for carbon emissions and what each would mean for global sea-level rise. Tornqvist's study found that real-world emissions have closely tracked one of the report's middle-of-the-road scenarios; global sea levels have risen about 9 cm " very close to the 8 cm the UN report predicted. Those early predictions were made without today's advanced computer models, and they over- or underestimated the impacts of some drivers of sea-level rise. read more
President Donald Trump's administration is being sharply criticized by conservatives in both government and media for reportedly sending tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban-controlled government in Afghanistan. read more
Stephen Collinson: President Donald Trump certainly made himself feel better. Whether he did the same for gloomy voters haunted by high prices is more doubtful. read more
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation that bars civil immigration arrests from being made in or near state courthouses, and gives residents more leeway to sue federal agents over alleged civil rights violations. read more
On Monday, US District Court Judge Patti Saris vacated a Trump executive order that brought a halt to all offshore wind power development, as well as some projects on land. read more
U.S. forces have seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News. read more
Reuters is reporting that the Trump Administration is trying to force a pledge from the International Criminal Court that it will not prosecute Trump or his officials. read more
If there is nothing truly damaging to President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files, he and his administration did a great job of making it look like there could be. read more
The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration ... read more
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis designated one of the country's largest Muslim advocacy and civil rights groups as a foreign terrorist organization -- and now the group says it plans to sue. read more
The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ordered Wednesday in an emphatic ruling. read more
The Justice Department moved to end long-standing civil rights policies that prohibit local governments and organizations that receive federal funding from maintaining policies that disproportionately harm people of color. read more
Fewer than 60,000 people -- 0.001% of the world's population -- control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential. read more
