Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — The Trump White House, which has defined itself by a willingness to dismiss scientific findings and propose its own facts, on Friday issued a scientific report that directly contradicts its own climate-change policies. That sets the stage for…
American consumers are set to spend $7.8 billion this Cyber Monday, making it the biggest online shopping day in U.S. history. That figure outstrips 2017’s Cyber Monday spending by 18% and surpasses online spending on Black Friday in 2018 by more than $1.5 billion. The shopping holiday has grown quickly since its launch in 2005…
Authorities clashed with members of a migrant caravan after a group estimated to be in the hundreds stormed a US port of entry, according to video and photos posted to social media from journalists on the ground. The migrants left a makeshift shelter in Tijuana to head for San Ysidro, the largest port of entry…
FOR THE Rohingya refugees in camps in southern Bangladesh, it was a frightening moment. On November 15th a line of buses pulled up outside camp 22, in Unchiprang. The Bangladeshi army was there to take the first batch of them back to Myanmar, from where some 700,000 have fled since August last year. But hundreds…
‘Even the trees are dying’ Nguy Thi Khanh has seen the contest close-up in Vietnam. Born in 1976, a year after the end of the war, she remembers doing homework by the light of a kerosene lamp. In her northern village, the electricity failed several hours a day. When it rained, there was no power…
A new video from the European Space Agency shows the spectacular launch of the Soyuz rocket. The video was captured by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and shows the Russian Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft taking off from the Soyuz rocket on Nov. 16. The spacecraft was carrying food and supplies for astronauts aboard the International Space…
Black Friday sales hit record highs this year. But, that doesn't mean it was the biggest online shopping day in the world this November. Shoppers spent $2.4 billion online on Wednesday, a whopping 31.8% increase from 2017, according to Adobe Analytics data. Thanksgiving Day online sales hit $3.7 billion, 28% growth year over year. Black…
“MY LITTLE CHILDREN let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth.” The biblical verse carved in stone in a converted church in Westminster contained a lesson for the band of ageing revolutionaries gathered below on November 20th. Deed and truth have been lacking in an attempted coup by…
Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — A major scientific report issued by 13 federal agencies on Friday presents the starkest warnings to date of the consequences of climate change for the United States, predicting that if significant steps are not taken to rein in…
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday, major U.S. retailers have succeeded in driving consumption around the holidays by offering irresistible deals and discounts. But since 2010, there’s been another contender in the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush: small businesses. In the aftermath of the recession, American Express launched Small Business Saturday on the Saturday after Thanksgiving as…
