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A federal judge canceled major oil and gas leases over climate change

The ruling revokes leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. It says the Interior Department failed to consider the greenhouse gases it would produce.

Spring Numbers Show 'Dramatic' Drop In College Enrollment

Undergraduate college enrollment fell again this spring, down nearly 5% from a year ago. "It's really the end of a truly frightening year for higher education," one researcher says.

The European Union on Wednesday unveiled sweeping new legislation to help meet its pledge to cut emissions of the gases that cause global warming by 55% over this decade.

Europe Has An Ambitious New Climate Plan That Imagines A Dramatic Cut In Emissions

A sweeping proposal unveiled by the European Union on Wednesday would look to cut emissions of the gases that cause global warming by 55% by the end of this decade.

From March 2019: Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes part in the shooting of the television series Servant of the People, in which he played the role of the President of Ukraine. Then a presidential candidate, art imitated life when he was elected to office.

In 'Servant of the People,' viewers got a glimpse of the future President Zelenskyy

Netflix has brought back the TV satire in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays a history teacher who unexpectedly becomes president of Ukraine.

Firefighters looking at the Emerald Fire over the ridge of a hill in a backyard of a home in Laguna Beach, Feb. 10, 2022.

Winter wildfire burns 2 homes in Los Angeles County

A fire in the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier broke out Thursday afternoon and gutted two homes but firefighters say they're getting a handle on it. Another blaze erupted above the community of Emerald Bay near Laguna Beach before dawn.

The Supreme Court ponders the right to pray on the 50-yard line

The case comes to the court in the midst of a sea change in the law relating to the relationship between government and religion.

A makeshift memorial sits outside of Oxford High School on Wednesday, a day after four students were fatally shot and seven injured in Oxford, Mich.

Michigan authorities consider charges against the school shooting suspect's parents

Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said that the parents of the suspect failed to keep a recently purchased firearm out of the hands of their son.

In this photo provided by Pakistan's Press Information Department, Pakistan's Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmad, left, administrates the oath of office to Ayesha Malik in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday. Malik is the first female judge to serve on Pakistan's Supreme Court.

Meet Justice Ayesha Malik, Pakistan's first female Supreme Court judge

Malik was sworn in on Monday, shattering a glass ceiling in a country where only about 17% of judges are women.

Vezna Hang and his son. Hang fell so ill with COVID-19 before being vaccinated that he needed a double lung transplant. He now encourages other people to get the shot.

Once rare, lung transplants for COVID-19 patients are rising quickly

When it comes to receiving organ transplants, patients are not usually judged on prior behavior, but some doctors are questioning whether unvaccinated COVID patients should qualify for new lungs.

Ali Nasser Abulaban appears in court at his arraignment hearing, Oct. 25, 2021.

Trial ordered for social media star accused of killing wife and man

Ali Nasser Abulaban, 29, is charged in the shooting deaths of 28-year- old Ana Abulaban and 29-year-old Rayburn Cardenas Barron at the Spire San Diego luxury apartment complex.

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