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A bulldozer loads coal onto railway wagons at the Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad in India's Jharkhand state.

India pledges net-zero emissions by 2070 — but also wants to expand coal mining

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told COP26 that India, the world's third-biggest carbon emitter, would go net-zero by 2070. But appetite for coal, which supplies 70% of India's power, remains high.

Former Brooklyn Center, Minn., officer Kim Potter, pictured as her guilty verdict was read in December.

Kim Potter, the ex-cop convicted in Daunte Wright's death, is sentenced to 2 years

The former Minnesota officer was convicted of manslaughter after she apparently mistook her gun for her Taser when she fatally shot the 20-year-old Black man. She will serve 16 months in prison.

Judge J. Michelle Childs is being considered by President Biden for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judge Michelle Childs, whose early life was shaped by gun violence, is on SCOTUS list

Her meteoric rise in the last year has been due in part to her biggest supporter, South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

U.S. gymnast Mykayla Skinner performs on the vault during the gymnastics women's apparatus final at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

U.S. Gymnast MyKayla Skinner Medals In An Event She Didn't Expect To Compete In

Skinner was tapped to compete in the vault individual final after Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast in the world, withdrew from the competition to focus on her mental health.

Nick Saldaña getting his wetsuit ready for a surfing session, Sept. 20, 2021. He credits Reintegration for helping him land a job and a career after a stint in prison.

Carlsbad nonprofit helps with the hard road back from incarceration

Reintegration works to help people find housing and employment.

Palm trees sway in the breeze on a sunny day in the Bankers Hill neighborhood of San Diego, in this photo taken Feb. 27, 2021.

Higher Temperatures, Sunny Skies Expected For San Diego County

Higher temperatures and sunny skies were expected across San Diego County this weekend, with the heat peaking on Sunday, the National Weather Service said Saturday.

The sun shines near the Space Needle, Monday, June 28, 2021, in Seattle. Seattle and other cities broke all-time heat records over the weekend, with temperatures soaring well above 100 degrees.

PHOTOS: The Record-Breaking Heat Wave That's Scorching The Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is being scorched. Trapped beneath a heat dome, the effects of extreme heat are being seen in dramatic detail.

"With the pandemic, with the climate crisis, the world is becoming more and more inhospitable for more and more people," Zola Jesus tells NPR. "<em>Arkhon</em> is about all of that."

Zola Jesus finds purpose in the process

Zola Jesus has spent years contemplating the spiritual quandaries of what it means to be an artist. On her album Arkhon, she grapples with political and economic structures of power and disconnection.

U.S. professional sports leagues change their game plans as omicron infections climb

Players are benched after testing positive, games are canceled or postponed and leagues and players' unions are scrambling to figure out how to move forward under a cloud of uncertainty.

U.S. Army and Navy combat veteran Bryan Stern sorts out logistics on the phone for evacuations in Kyiv, Ukraine, last month. Stern runs a nonprofit organization called Project Dynamo that extracts people from hostile places.

Meet the rescue team extracting people trapped in Kyiv suburbs under siege

U.S. combat veteran Bryan Stern runs a nonprofit called Project Dynamo that extracts people from hostile places. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the organization has rescued more than 400 people.

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