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Future of Fossil Fuels at Stake in Homestretch of Climate Talks

One draft agreement calls for a “phase out” of all burning of coal, natural gas and oil; producers argue the focus should be on emissions.

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Politics of Campus Free Speech Draw Scrutiny

Congressional testimony from university presidents has exposed inconsistencies in the application of First Amendment rights, legal scholars say.

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What’s Behind Warren Buffett’s Fight with a Truck-Stop Mogul

As much as $1.2 billion is at stake in a lawsuit filed against Berkshire Hathaway by the Haslam family company Pilot Corp.

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Latest Israel-Hamas war news summary and Gaza death toll updates – The Washington Post

Latest Israel-Hamas war news summary and Gaza death toll updates  The Washington Post MSF calls US veto of Gaza ceasefire resolution “a vote against humanity”  Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International Israel-Hamas war: UN ceasefire vote vetoed by US as fighting continues in

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Texas A.G. Ken Paxton Tries to Block Court-Approved Abortion

The court, responding to an appeal from Attorney General Ken Paxton, put on hold a lower court order allowing an abortion for a woman whose fetus has a fatal condition.

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Texas A.G. Ken Paxton Tries to Block Court-Approved Abortion – The New York Times

Texas A.G. Ken Paxton Tries to Block Court-Approved Abortion  The New York Times Texas Supreme Court pauses order allowing abortion  FOX 26 Houston Update on emergency abortion court decision  KPRC Click2Houston Opinion: This Texas woman is exposing a chilling truth about abortion law  CNN

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How many Palestinians have died in Gaza war and how will the counting continue?

By Ali Sawafta and Maggie Fick RAMALLAH, West Bank/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Israeli forces unleashed an aerial and ground blitz against Hamas in Gaza after a cross-border rampage by the enclave’s ruling Islamist group on Oct. 7. At least 17,487 Palestinians have

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Intensified fighting across Gaza as U.S. vetoes ceasefire

By Bassam Masoud and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel pounded the Gaza Strip from north to south on Saturday in an expanded phase of its two-month-old war against Hamas, after the United States wielded its U.N. Security Council veto to

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What it means for an oil producing country, the UAE, to host UN climate talks

The United Arab Emirates is a major oil producing nation, and that’s drawing attention to the role oil and gas has at this year’s COP28 climate negotiations. (Image credit: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images)

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