CANBERRA, Australia — Scores of wildfires continued to rage across vast tracts of Australia’s drought-stricken east coast on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes, some for the second time in a week. The most intense fires were concentrated in the northeastern states of New South Wales and Queensland, although a fire emergency warning […]
HONG KONG — University students from mainland China and Taiwan are fleeing Hong Kong, while those from two Scandinavian countries have been moved or urged to leave as college campuses become the latest battleground in the city’s five-month-long antigovernment unrest. Marine police used a boat Wednesday to help a group of mainland students leave the Chinese […]
Click:HPMC HEMC HEC Factory Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter TOP STORIES Will These Hearings Be Unimpeachable? Public hearings in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump are scheduled to begin this morning with testimony from State Department official George Kent and William B. Taylor Jr., the by-the-book […]
Click:chlorine tablets manufacturer As Iraq finally pries the death grip of the Islamic State off of its bloodied form, you’d think US policy would reflect the lessons learned from killing innocent civilians and destroying the basic functions of a nation. Instead, more than a decade of using drones to “target” suspected terrorists, the Trump administration […]
“Change only happens when people rise up to demand it.” That is one of the principal rallying cries of environmentalists around the world who are gearing up for a historic mobilization aimed at highlighting the devastating effects the climate crisis is already having on vulnerable communities—and demanding a just transition to a world without fossil […]
When it comes to near-perfect human specimens, Idris Elba ranks high atop the list. He’s an actor, DJ, rapper, and style star, as well as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. And though we assumed he could do everything well, he revealed one weakness in his latest interview for Esquire that we […]
As Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) put on a “genuinely unhinged” performance during Thursday’s Senate hearing with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford—constantly interrupting Democratic senators and repeatedly inserting self-serving rants between questioning—more than 50 Iowa-based and national groups representing hundreds of thousands of Americans sent a letter denouncing Grassley’s “failed leadership” and demanding that he immediately resign […]
Kate Middleton has been showing off bold new fashion on her royal tour of Poland and Germany, but she also took some time to exhibit her sporty side. The Duchess of Cambridge faced off against her husband Prince William on Thursday in a boat race between German towns Cambridge and Heidelberg, and things got competitive […]
Click:Brown paper bag It’s only 4:30, but Gabrielle Union is making us cry. In honor of Throwback Thursday, the Being Mary Jane actress has shared a behind-the-scenes photo of the cast of the revered high school film 10 Things I Hate About You. Along with Union, the pic features costars Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph […]
Since President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement in 2017, a number of local governments have taken it upon themselves to meet the deal’s requirements to the extent that they can—but a new study finds that while those efforts are admirable and significant for individual states and communities, they are no match for […]