By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer That carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat is something scientists have known about for more than a 150 years. The underlying concept behind climate …
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Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump, demanding historic testimony
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol formally issued an extraordinary subpoena to Donald…
Court temporarily blocks Biden’s student loan forgiveness
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court late Friday issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel billions of dollars in…
‘Change has come’: Mississippi unveils Emmett Till statue
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people applauded — and some wiped away tears — as a Mississippi community unveiled a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till…
Capitol rioter gets prison for attacks on journalist, police
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was sentenced on Friday to nearly three years in prison for assaulting an Associated Press photographer and attacking police …
JD Vance’s firm invested in food company now facing lawsuits
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A high-tech indoor farming company in Appalachia promoted by JD Vance and financed in part by his venture capital firm is facing five lawsuit…
Climate Questions: Why do small degrees of warming matter?
By SETH BORENSTEIN and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press On a thermometer, a tenth of a degree seems tiny, barely noticeable. But small changes in average temperature can reverberate in a global climate t…
Rare toad fight similar to landmark endangered species case
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the Endangered Species Act in 1978 have not surfaced much since the…
Trump claim of ‘Crime of Century’ fizzles in 3-year probe
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump once predicted that a special prosecutor appointed during his administration would uncover “the crime of the century” — …
Judge: Trump knew vote fraud claims in legal docs were false
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents challenging the results of the 2020 election that included voter fraud claims he knew to be fa…