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Terrified of being seen as a loser, Donald Trump is nonsensically lashing out – even against our old friend Canada I’m still grieving Dolly Parton. I never met her and always wanted to. She was almost exactly my age and my height and had values I deeply admired. Her death leaves a hole in the … Read more
Decision to rescind ‘roadless rule’ opens more than 45m acres of national forests to roads, drilling and logging More than 400 endangered animal and plant species could face accelerated extinction after the Donald Trump administration’s decision to rescind a rule that has protected old-growth forests for more than two decades. According to a new report … Read more
Lawsuit alleges sound is nuisance for up to one mile around datacenter as residents experience noises from DataOne It’s a sound Steve Brown, a 63-year-old Vineland, New Jersey resident, literally hears in his sleep: BGRRRRRRRRRRR. It drones, oscillates, growls – these are machines at industrial scale. Are they generators? Pumps? Fans? Brown does not know … Read more
Unpopular new policy comes as midterms loom and control of Congress could be decided by several Michigan races Every day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that have come to act as one in the creation of North America’s auto industry. … Read more
In the latest escalation in the ongoing trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the official name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” It comes as the United States marks six months since the start of the war with Iran with no end in sight, and as Trump tries … Read more
More than 1,300 people are missing in Nepal and in Tibet after catastrophic flash floods swept through the region, killing at least 469. Plus: Six months of the war in Iran Good morning. Rescue operations have resumed in Nepal and Tibet after a pause when a lake at the border began to overflow. The lake … Read more
Judge Indira Talwani placed a 14-day hold on government implementing Trump’s order to limit mail voting Sign up for the US Breaking News email Jonathan Freedland speaks to Dan Alexander of Forbes about how Donald Trump made so much money last year at the same time trade wars, military wars and a rising national debt … Read more
The site once paired news and scores with distinctive voices. Its overhaul under Sinclair Media is the latest sign that serious tennis writing in the US is becoming endangered A few weeks ago, as I often do, I went to the Tennis.com site to get an update about a match and to check out the … Read more
America’s second biggest sporting obsession returns this weekend, which means marching bands, 100,000-seat stadiums, ancient rivalries and, increasingly, the operating model of a sport being invented in real time Is college football healthy? It’s a seductive question, one that now comes up every year around this time. Actually, it never recedes, so it’s just with … Read more
The singer had a serendipitous mixture of humor, humility and humanity. We could all stand to channel it a bit more The moment that the world found out that Dolly Parton had died, I was in a hair salon in the reddest congressional district in New York state. The neighborhood on the shore of Lake … Read more
