Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. KATOWICE, Poland — Diplomats from nearly 200 countries reached a deal on Saturday to keep the Paris climate agreement alive by adopting a detailed set of rules to implement the pact. The deal, struck after an all-night bargaining session, will…
Demonstrations across France by the “Yellow Vests” movement drew around half the number of last week’s protesters, suggesting that Emmanuel Macron’s concessions have dented the campaign’s momentum. While protesters still called for the president to step down for a fifth Saturday in a row, placards calling for a higher minimum wage were replaced by those…
President Donald Trump abruptly tapped Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to become his next White House chief of staff after growing frustrated that none of his top candidates would accept the position, a senior White House official said in a Washington Post report on Friday. Following multiple rejections this…
IT WAS NEVER likely that Theresa May would get much out of this week’s European Union summit, just three days after she pulled a vote on the Brexit deal in Parliament and only a day after she won a tight confidence vote in her party. Summits need more preparation and time than this. Yet, although…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Texas struck down the entire Affordable Care Act on Friday on the grounds that its mandate requiring people to buy health insurance is unconstitutional and the rest of the law cannot stand without it. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
If you missed the Grantham, their servants and the grandeur of their English estate, you’ll be happy to know that the cast of Downton Abbey is returning in 2019. Only this time, it’s on the big screen. The show’s Twitter account on Friday teased the trailer for the movie, which is simply named Downton Abbey.…
Fear has taken hold in equity markets after China's industrial production plummeted, sparking a sell-off that spread globally. Cracks in the European economy are also continuing to show, weighing on those region's equities. China's November industrial-production growth eased by half a percentage point to 5.4%, its lowest level since 2009. The data pointed to weak…
DESPERATE, NO-HOLDS-BARRED scrapping has become Britain’s day-to-day mode of government. On December 10th a landmark vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal was cancelled at the last minute, ambushing ministers who were giving live-broadcast interviews confirming that it would definitely go ahead. The next day Mrs May began a tour of Europe, promising to get better…
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Thursday to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen in the strongest show of bipartisan defiance against President Trump’s defense of the kingdom over the killing of a dissident journalist. The 56-to-41 vote was a rare move by the Senate to limit presidential war powers and…
Online streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon just made television history, producing the largest share of original scripted shows in 2018, the first time that’s ever happened. Of the 495 scripted original shows released this year, 160 or 33% were produced by online platforms, according to FX research reported by Vulture. Streamers include heavy hitters…
