A local Tennessee library board has fired the county’s top librarian for refusing to comply with its vote to move more than 100 LGBTQ books from the children’s to the adult section over claims
Seizing Kharg Island would risk US troops’ lives and may not end Iran war, experts say
President Donald Trump is threatening to deploy ground troops to seize critical oil infrastructure on Iran’s Kharg Island
Federal ‘God squad’ poised to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules
Trump administration officials will soon consider exempting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act
Appeals court suspends order for Voice of America employees to return to work
An appeals court panel has suspended a federal judge’s order for the Trump administration to bring hundreds of Voice of America employees back to work from paid leave
Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris is free after 6 months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse
The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an Oklahoma woman in the 1980s has been released from an Oklahoma jail
Lithium mine clears hurdle despite conservationists’ worries for rare wildflower
A federal judge ruled against conservation groups in their efforts to block a proposed lithium-boron mining project in Nevada
Military suicides long-term rate for active duty troops still rising: Pentagon
The Pentagon says fewer American service members died by suicide in 2024
California woman returns home after the Trump administration deported her to Mexico
A U.S. resident of 27 years who was deported to Mexico by the Trump administration has returned home to Sacramento
Oceans are absorbing the Earth’s excess energy. That’s bad news for food systems.
Every year, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, tracks a set of key climate indicators — including the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the Earth’s temperature — to assess how global warming is progressing. In their latest report, released last Sunday, the authors decided to include a new...
Texas saw a $50B future in clean energy. Then the political winds shifted.
On an unseasonably warm January day, Duff Hallman’s goats and sheep wandered unhurried through the rocky hills of his ranch 30 miles south of San Angelo, Texas, unbothered by the long shadows that swept over the ground. The shadows fell from wind turbines towering 250 feet above, their blades spinning...