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Nation & World

Published
June 23, 2023

Georgia congressman wants to block federal agency from slowing boats to protect endangered whales

U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, a Republican whose district includes Georgia's 100-mile coast, said NOAA's proposed enhanced slowdown rules would be restrictive enough to cause charter fishing boats to quit the business and to disrupt the efficiency of busy seaports like the Port of Savannah.
Published
June 23, 2023

Wall Street falls to close out its first losing week in the last six

Another drop for stocks helped drag Wall Street to its first losing week in the last six.
Published
June 23, 2023

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.
Published
June 23, 2023

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.
Published
June 23, 2023

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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Published
June 23, 2023

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.
Published
June 23, 2023

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.
Published
June 23, 2023

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.
Published
June 23, 2023

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.
Published
June 23, 2023

‘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.