Battle lines have been drawn between the almost 200 countries meeting in Azerbaijan as they seek to agree a new pot of money to help developing countries cope with climate change. Over the last two days, leaders have swanned to the capital Baku for the COP29 climate summit to give glitzy speeches on how much they are doing and how ...
World leaders who came for the start of the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Azerbaijan are now heading home. And as the whine of private jet engines fades in the skies above the capital Baku, their teams of negotiators get down to the real work: trying, once again, to keep the global climate talks from falling apart. Most ...
Consumer rights group Which? is suing Apple for £3bn over the way it deploys the iCloud. If the lawsuit succeeds, around 40 million Apple customers in the UK could be entitled to a payout. The lawsuit claims Apple, which controls iOS operating systems, has breached UK competition law by giving its iCloud storage preferential treatment, effectively “trapping” customers with Apple ...
Argentinian negotiators have been summoned home from global climate talks in Azerbaijan by the President Javier Milei’s government. The team were ordered to pack up and leave on Wednesday, just three days into the two-week COP29 summit in Azerbaijan. No reason was given, but the Argentinian president – a right-wing populist who has previously dubbed the climate crisis a “socialist ...
It’s not clear exactly how many immigrants are living in the United States without authorization, for a number of reasons. The most obvious is that some people cross the border from Mexico and evade capture. It is definitionally hard to know how many people do so, but the government has gotten better at estimating the number in part because there ...
John F. Kelly, former president Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, said in a new interview that his former boss met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if elected again, had no empathy and did not understand the Constitution or the rule of law. This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com ...
A suspected drunk driver going the wrong way on a highway in Milwaukee came close to Vice President Kamala Harris’s motorcade on Monday night, officials said. A video obtained by WISN 12 News showed a white SUV traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 around 8:30 p.m. Monday, passing several cars in Harris’s motorcade, until it was eventually ...
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday offered brief public remarks addressing comments made this week by former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who served in that position under Donald Trump. “This is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best, from the people who worked with him side-by-side in the Oval ...
In the final three weeks of the presidential race, former president Donald Trump and his advisers have attacked one particular foe more than three dozen times: a little-known Kamala Harris aide named Ian Sams. The feud with Sams, a bespectacled 35-year-old longtime foot soldier in Democratic politics, started when Sams did what few Democrats are willing to do: He went ...
MADISON, Wis. — Early voting kicked off in this battleground state this week with computer delays and long lines. Voters waited as long as three hours Tuesday to cast ballots in West Bend, a city of about 32,000, city clerk Jilline Dobratz said. State computer issues reared up again Wednesday, and by midafternoon, voters had to wait about 90 minutes ...