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Building everything necessary for fighting climate change is going require metal. There’s plenty on the ocean floor. But extracting it is controversial because it involves deep sea mining.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with retired Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of CENTCOM, about the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to the Taliban one year later.

The White House summoned China’s ambassador to the U.S. to address concerns about military exercises around Taiwan — the latest in the fallout over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island.

He kept the sunglasses on. As Joe Biden walked out onto the south balcony of the White House on a blisteringly hot Friday in August in Washington, he reached up to take off his signature aviator shades, but decided to

Texas governor sends migrants to New York City as immigration standoff accelerates  Reuters Canada Texas Will Bus Migrants Straight to New York City, Escalating Crisis | News 4 Now  NBC New York First Texas bus of migrants arrives in NYC  Fox News Texas

Victim in fiery Windsor Hills crash was eight months pregnant  Los Angeles Times Driver in Los Angeles crash that killed 6 arrested, charged with vehicular manslaughter, gross negligence  Fox News Pregnant mother, 23, and baby boy killed along with four others in

History remembers October 4, 1957, a lot better than it remembers January 4, 1958—though in recent weeks, the second date is coming to loom larger than the first. October 4, 1957, was the day the Soviet Union Launched Sputnik—the world’s

Schumer says Sinema left ‘no choice’ but to cut carried interest provision from tax and climate bill  CNBC Sinema among top private equity cash recipients as she removed billionaire tax loophole from Manchin bill  Fox News Senate’s Warner Says Slimming Carried Interest

Years ago, at one of his earliest opportunities to speak at a university, author Neil Gaiman was informed that the English department had elected to boycott the event. Their concern? He wrote comics—and one couldn’t write comics and be a

A wrongful murder conviction forced Woodfox to spend 43 years and 10 months in solitary confinement at Louisiana’s Angola Prison. He has died at the age of 75. (Image credit: Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images)