How Spain’s Success in Renewable Energy May Have Left It Vulnerable
The Iberian Peninsula’s widespread blackout raises questions about the resilience of the electric power infrastructure in the two countries — and to an extent, the rest of Europe.
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Florida’s Board of Education approves cutbacks to 8 school districts over mask mandates.
The political battle in Florida over masks in schools escalated this week, as the state Board of Education voted to authorize sanctions on eight …
House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump
The Take It Down Act, which united a coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers, criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit images of others and requires companies to remove them.
White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.
Dozens of Afrikaners who claim discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday. Their departure for the U.S. came as the Trump administration was halting virtually all refugee admissions.
Why Don’t We Have a Covid Vaccine for Pets?
Over the past year, coronavirus vaccines have gone into billions of human arms — and into the fuzzy haunches of an ark’s worth of zoo animals …
The Only Mother on the Court
With the fate of Roe v. Wade on the line at Wednesday’s oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, all ears were trained on …
Clarissa Eden, British Countess and Political Influencer, Dies at 101
Clarissa Eden, an elegant and well-connected insider among a British elite that shaped the country’s empire, stewarded its wars and presided over …
For Progressives, Iron Dome Isn’t the Issue. It’s Israel Itself.
It would be a mistake to conclude that the sky is falling on the U.S.-Israel relationship or that the Democratic Party has distanced itself from …
Leo XIV Outlines a Path for a Modern Church That Follows Francis’ Steps
The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including a “loving care for the least and the rejected.”
New Jersey Is Facing a Possible Transit Strike. Here’s What to Know.
The union that represents the engineers who drive New Jersey Transit’s commuter trains has threatened a walkout as soon as Friday if a contract deal is not reached.