EPA is loosening Biden-era rule that requires US businesses to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment The Trump administration is set to loosen a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, in what officials say is a push to lower grocery costs. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, said the Biden-era rule imposes costly restrictions that limit the type of refrigerants US business
Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, in 2025.
The monarch may have thought the role would keep her ‘favourite’ second son out of trouble. How wrong she was That Queen Elizabeth II was “very keen” for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to take on a “prominent role in the promotion of national interests” as a trade envoy in 2001 demonstrates the fierce support the late monarch always gave her second son. Knowing he was “the spare”, and undoubtedly acutely aware of the pitfalls of that position – her sister, Princess Margaret, had struggled to find he
Satirical project is viral sensation and outlet for protest on social media as it taps into young people’s frustration It began as a satirical online project after a high court judge compared unemployed young people to cockroaches. Now millions of young Indians are flocking to it as an outlet for their frustration. A parody political party with the insect as its symbol has exploded across India’s social media by turning absurdist humour into protest. Memes and short videos mocking corruption, jo
Watch live coverage as President Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin make an announcement that is expected to roll back rules and restrictions from the Biden administration.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Nottingham university hospitals trust says 11 members of staff dismissed and 14 others given written warnings An NHS trust has sacked 11 staff members who illegally accessed the medical records of the victims of the Nottingham attacks. Valdo Calocane killed two 19-year-old students, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and Ian Coates, a 65-year-old caretaker, before attempting to kill three other people in the city in June 2023. Continue reading...
NBC News · Oct 8
A storm passes over Coors Field in the fourth inning of a baseball game in Denver on Wednesday.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
When pupils could no longer play outside, St John’s school in Barnet decided to act, enlisting Trees for Cities to help rethink its outside space The play area at St John’s Church of England primary in Barnet, north London, used to flood so severely it was often unusable. “It would get so bad that the children couldn’t be dismissed from the playground,” says Maccie Dobbie, the school’s head teacher. “We had to dismiss them from different parts of the school or, literally, parents were stepping i
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Experts say hate-motivated extremists being radicalized online and adopting ideologies of shooters before them The killing of three men at a San Diego mosque on Monday is the latest example of a disturbing trend in recent decades: hate-motivated shooters learning from – and copying – each other in acts of violence meant to push the nation toward a race war and, ultimately, societal collapse. The two San Diego shooters, who were 17 and 18, killed 51-year-old Amin Abdullah, a security guard at the
