After More Than Two Weeks, California’s Deadliest Wildfire Is Finally Contained
A neighborhood in Paradise, California, consumed by the Camp Fire.Noah Berger/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early on Sunday morning, Cal Fire, the state’s forestry and fire protection agency, announced that California’s deadliest wildfire is now 100 percent contained. Camp Fire, which decimated the town of Paradise and much of…
Incoming Mexican Government Denies It’s Struck a Deal with Trump on Asylum Seekers
Migrants near the US border in the Mexican city of Tijuana queue to get food on November 19, 2018. Omar Mart’nez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, officials from the incoming government of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador denied that they agreed to any deal with the US that would require…
This Company Wants to Use Cow Manure to Offset Aircraft Emissions
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. You recycle. You keep your showers short. Maybe you even drive an electric car, powered by the solar panels on your roof. In other words, you do what you can to…
The White House Is Doing Its Best to Undermine Dire Climate Report
A burnt car sits in the wreckage of the Camp FireWu Xiaoling/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration attempted to downplay the stark findings of its own climate change assessment, as Democrats sought to pressure…
Police Acknowledge They Killed the Wrong Person in Alabama Mall Shooting
ABC 33/40/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thanksgiving night Hoover, Alabama, police shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., who was known as E.J., at a shopping mall after an altercation left an 18-year-old and a 12-year-old with gun shot injuries. Around 10:00 p.m. at the Riverchase Galleria mall…
Trump Administration and Mexico May Have Just Reached a New Asylum Deal
Migrants seeking asylum in the US sleep in tents near the borderOmar Martinez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that the White House has struck a preliminary deal with the president-elect of Mexico that would force migrants seeking refugee in the United States to wait…