Washington — When the Supreme Court returns to the bench Monday for the first time since late June, it will kick off its new term with a major case involving an effort by the city and county of Boulder, Colorado, to hold fossil-fuel producers accountable for the impacts of global climate change. The lawsuit from…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider whether the Trump administration can detain tens of thousands of immigrants during their removal proceedings without access to bond hearings. At the center of the case, known as Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha, is the administration’s mandatory detention policy, which targets all immigrants in…
Washington — Justice Samuel Alito will no longer participate in a major climate change case involving two large energy companies, according to a letter from the Supreme Court that was sent Monday. The one-line letter signed by Scott Harris, the Supreme Court’s clerk, and sent to the lawyers involved in the dispute states that Alito…
A powerful nor’easter continued to lash parts of the U.S. East Coast on Sunday, after its arrival earlier in the weekend brought a fierce combination of heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous waves to multiple states in its path. In coastal sections of New York and New Jersey, the storm triggered such intense flooding that…
OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, as part of an ongoing review into the company’s models’ unanticipated behavior. The AI giant’s models accessed publicly available information on two websites operated by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as U.S. Census Bureau data,…
The powerful nor’easter headed to New England intensified Friday, generating storm-force winds and creating massive waves along the East Coast that forecasters warned could create dangerous conditions through the weekend. Tens of millions of people are in the path of the storm, which has already canceled concerts and prompted people on islands near Cape Cod,…
An estimated 451,000 more people could die as a result of excessive heat in the first nine months of the current El Niño compared with a typical year, according to a report from the University of Chicago’s Climate Impact Lab. “That’s on top of the impacts from droughts, wildfires and flooding expected from hotter temperatures…
When parents can’t find adequate child care, they might miss work, get fired or choose to leave the workforce entirely — all of which not only affects how much money families earn, but costs businesses and taxpayers. And the situation has gotten worse in recent years. According to the study from ReadyNation, the economy is…
A potential nor’easter is threatening the Atlantic shoreline with possible strong winds, along with heavy rains and coastal flooding. At the same time, a Category 5 hurricane is brewing just off the coast of Mexico, and Southern California is on alert for impacts later this week. Carter Evans reports from Malibu and Rob Marciano has…
Berlin — The U.S. has made “major progress” on plans to establish a permanent U.S. Army base in Poland, President Trump said Thursday in a social media post. “If this goes ahead, the location will be announced very soon,” Mr. Trump said in his Truth Social post, which was shared by the White House on X….
