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Review: Heavy, buggy Steam Deck wins over a Nintendo Switch fan

PC gaming behemoth Valve has rolled out a portable console. While it's heavy and buggy, the Steam Deck has already become a hot item for ardent gamers.

FILE - In this March 18, 2020, file photo, the state Assembly Chambers sits empty at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. New political maps have upended the Legislature in 2022 and many new faces will be seen in both houses when it reconvenes after the November election.

California Legislature upended by new political maps

New political maps drawn because of the once-a-decade census have upended the California Legislature.

Vice President Harris looks at a hyperwall during a climate change discussion at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Nov. 5 , 2021. The SEC unveiled new proposals on Monday requiring companies to disclose climate-related risks.

The SEC wants companies to disclose how climate change is affecting them

Under the rule proposals, companies would be required to share information about their greenhouse gas emissions as well as climate-related risks faced by their businesses.

Because space shuttle missions went up to repair and refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope, it has a relatively large carbon footprint compared to other telescopes.

Astronomy's contribution to climate change rivals the emissions from some countries

Building and operating telescopes can generate a lot of greenhouse gases. In fact, it's as if each astronomer in the world was driving more than 100,000 miles per year, a new study finds.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a press conference in Budapest on Feb. 17.

In Hungary, the arts are being suppressed by the government, a new report says

The Artistic Freedom Initiative contends that consolidated state power under right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and artists' self-censorship has led to an "existential crisis."

A Russian court has declared Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, an extremist organization. WhatsApp is excluded from the ruling, however.

A Russian court bans Facebook and Instagram as extremist

The ruling amounts to an immediate ban of Facebook and Instagram in Russia, where both platforms are already blocked. WhatsApp, which is owned by the same company, is still allowed.

Shararah's 2021 Nowruz feast isn't possible this year because of a ban on the holiday by the Afghan government.

Nowruz is banned in Afghanistan, but families continue to celebrate

One woman living in Kabul describes how, despite food shortages and repression, her family is celebrating the Persian new year with what they have.

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books, including <em>The Bluest Eye</em>, by Toni Morrison and<em> Lawn Boy</em> by Jonathan Evison, that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021.

Book bans and the threat of censorship rev up political activism in the suburbs

A conservative campaign to ban certain books from schools is prompting other parents to push back. The issue is often framed as the latest "culture war" battle, but some see democracy itself at stake.

Republican senators will scrutinize Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's long record during her confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court that begin Monday.

What Ketanji Brown Jackson can expect to hear from Republicans this week

If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court, and she would be one of four women on the court, the largest number ever to serve at one time.

Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean sexual slavery survivor who has been demanding since the early 1990s that the Japanese government fully accept culpability and offer an unequivocal apology, wipes her tear during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on March 16, 2022.

South Korean slavery victim seeks U.N. justice as time runs out

The grievances over sexual slavery, forced labor and other abuses stemming from Japan's WW II-era colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula have strained Seoul-Tokyo relations in recent years.

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