Issues

"The state of the planet is broken. Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal." That's how United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres began a Wednesday address at Columbia University, in which he reflected on the past 11...

Every COVID-19 stimulus plan offered since March—including the $3 trillion HEROES Act the House passed 200 days ago, the compromise $2.2 trillion bill they passed 62 days ago and the messaging "skinny" bills Mitch...

As it turns out, a COVID-19 vaccine really is going into almost immediate distribution … except it will be available on the other side of the Atlantic. Government authorities in the U.K. have provided emergency approval not to...

A top Georgia election official issued a searing indictment Tuesday of his GOP colleagues in Washington for helping to fan the flames of Donald Trump's baseless fraud claims. Detailing a series of death threats made against...

Climate action campaigners on Wednesday acknowledged New Zealand's declaration of a climate emergency as a positive step forward, while noting that the move must be backed by decisive action. The country's Labour Party, led by...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday began circulating a coronavirus relief proposal whose contents offer so little assistance to the tens of millions of jobless, hungry, and eviction-prone Americans that critics warned the...

With the coronavirus pandemic still raging across the United States and two vaccine developers awaiting emergency use approval from the federal government, a panel of independent experts on Tuesday recommended to the Centers for...

Immense tracts of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of Hawaii's Big Island were destroyed in Brazil over the past year as deforestation increased to a 12-year high under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, data released...

Trump’s now at 1- 39 in legal cases and he’s lost the National Review, who aren’t really ‘Never-Trumpers’. Trump’s Disgraceful Endgame | https://t.co/Ms27AXTErP pic.twitter.com/uIYux9RNUc — National Review (@NRO) November 30, 2020 Editors of the well-known conservative magazine National...

More than two dozen House Democrats are demanding that congressional leaders secure adequate funding for the Internal Revenue Service in an upcoming appropriations bill to ensure that "wealthy tax cheats" like President Donald Trump...