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Residents describe experiences of sore throats and other symptoms. The energy storage industry insists that this incident is an extreme outlier.

A Sevastopol resident has been penalized for social media posts advocating voluntary childlessness, marking the first enforcement of Russia’s new law

After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong renter protections — and enforcement.

President Donald Trump today terminated Rohit Chopra as director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency he has led since Sept.

President Donald Trump late Friday issued an executive order requiring that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least ten existing ones to repeal. It is a radical expansion of Trump’s first term one-in-two-out executive order, which Public Citizen sued to block. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement:

“Trump’s preposterous deregulatory executive order — demanding ten rules go for every one issued — is a flat out gift to polluters, grifters, reckless employers, and Big Business overall. What’s more, the order is unbelievably stupid and illegal.

The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.

The president cannot unilaterally change the Constitution, but he’s sowing chaos by trying

A new artificial intelligence model from China not only upended stock markets this week, it also called into question whether the rush to build new, mostly fossil-fueled power plants to run data centers is premature.