How ruinous floods put Vermont at the forefront of the climate battle: Vermont has enacted the first state law requiring fossil fuel firms to pay for damage caused by climate change. Will it survive a near-certain legal challenge?
Trump has unveiled an agenda of his own. He just doesn’t mention it much.: Dubbed “Agenda 47,” Donald Trump’s plans should he return to the White House are documented by his campaign website.
Slowing demand growth and surging supply put global oil markets on course for major surplus this decade
What ‘boommates’ are and why you might want to join them: Thousands of baby boomers are living with intergenerational housemates — a setup that could help ease the housing crunch and cut global warming emissions. - "The housing crunch prompted Nancy, a retired professor of astronomy who lives in a Boston suburb, to open up her 1889, five-bedroom house to renters.
"'I started renting in 2016, and never looked back,' she says, asking her last name not be used for privacy. 'Even if I had plenty of money, I don’t think I would want to live here by myself.'"
GOP pick for N.C. governor downplayed Weinstein allegations, assault by Ray Rice: Mark Robinson has spent years repeatedly questioning the veracity of women who accuse prominent men of violence.
The unbearable heaviness of thinking everything is good for Trump: Everyone knows that getting convicted of felonies is bad. But try telling that to nervous anti-Trumpers.
Closing asset loophole could add billions to tax collections, IRS says: The Treasury Department said it will enact rules to prevent certain large businesses from depreciating the same asset repeatedly.
Fauci’s memoir reveals clashes with Trump, other private moments: In one chapter titled “He loves me, he loves me not,” Fauci describes his mercurial relationship with the 45th president.
Opinion Indiana is revealing the real consequences of one-party rule: Competition, always and everywhere, fosters innovation.
Opinion All U.S. economists are communists now, says the GOP. Who knew?: Republicans are rushing to defend Trump’s bone-headed tariff threats. - "The expected costs of Trump’s recent tariff proposals would be staggering. For example, his plan for a universal 10 percent tariff coupled with a 60 percent tariff on Chinese goods would more than wipe out any savings most Americans would get from extending his 2017 income tax cuts, according to estimates from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The bottom 80 percent of households would see a tax increase on net."
These 1,941 historic Ted Cruz emails show how Washington works: Missives offer an unvarnished view of Cruz’s professional life at the Justice Department as his political star rose amid networking, lunches and after-work gatherings.
Israel alleges journalist held hostages in Gaza, without providing evidence
The Hostages Next Door: Inside a Notable Gaza Family’s Dark Secret: To the outside world, they were a physician, a journalist. No one suspected their apartment had become a prison.
