Another drop for stocks helped drag Wall Street to its first losing week in the last six.
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Paris climate summit ends without a deal on global tax on shipping
The idea of a global tax on the greenhouse gas emissions produced from international shipping has been gaining traction and could potentially be adopted at a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization.
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Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ creator and Tony-winning lyricist, dies at 99
Harnick and composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Tourist sub’s implosion draws attention to murky regulations of deep-sea expeditions
It’s a space on the high seas where laws and conventions can be sidestepped by risk-taking entrepreneurs and the wealthy tourists who help fund their dreams.
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Tropical Storm Cindy forms behind Bret in early, aggressive start to hurricane season
‘The Atlantic is awfully warm this year,’ says a meteorologist with MIT, partially a result of global warming, natural variability and the ocean’s recovering from sulfate aerosols pollution that cooled it decades ago.
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Animal sedative adds new suffering to opioid drug crisis, but is it driving up deaths?
Xylazine can cause severe skin wounds, but whether it is leading to more deaths is not yet clear.
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Biden will sign order seeking to protect birth control access year after Roe was overturned
The president and fellow Democrats have already seen the power of the issue: A majority of Americans want legalized abortion nationwide.
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Infighting among Putin’s lieutenants hurts Russia’s war footing, if not his hold on power
Some see Putin’s failure to squelch the infighting as a sign of potential shifts in Russia’s political scene that set the stage for more internal battles.
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‘Titanic’ director James Cameron says the search for the missing sub became a ‘nightmarish charade’
Cameron told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday that he “felt in my bones” that the Titan submersible had been lost soon after he heard it had lost contact with the surface.
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Republicans release whistleblower testimonies from former IRS agents in Hunter Biden case
The release of the testimony comes just 2 days after Hunter Biden, 53, announced he will plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses as part of an agreement with the Justice Department.