Several Republican senators lashed out over the tariffs on Monday as the reality of their impact on domestic industries and consumers hit home. Rand Paul, a libertarian senator from Kentucky, posted on X that “average US car prices could rise by around $3,000”, quoting TD Economics. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, an agriculture-focused state, wrote […]
Mexico and Canada have begun a flurry of activity at their borders with the US in a show of willingness to clamp down on migrants ahead of a deadline on which President Donald Trump has threatened to impose punitive tariffs. In the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez on the US border, workers began filling in […]
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world EU officials are analysing hundreds of executive orders and sanctions imposed by US President Joe Biden amid growing concern that Donald Trump will rescind them, potentially upending foreign relations and trade. Brussels is […]
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Boxplot and jitter plots displaying the distribution of the measured total power flux density values (mW/m2) stratified per microenvironment, usage scenario and area. ᴼ represents the arithmetic mean, horizontal line the median and the box the interquartile range. Credit: Environmental Research (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.120550 A team of researchers from Project GOLIAT has developed and applied […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a reception dinner at the Great Hall of the People ahead of China’s National Day in Beijing, China on September 28, 2023. Jade Gao | Pool | via Reuters China’s leaders on Monday pledged “more proactive” fiscal measures and “moderately” looser monetary policy next year to boost domestic consumption, according […]
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03773-9 Climate change and urbanization are exacerbating the effects of flooding. A close look at a Nepalese river reveals that efforts to reduce the impact of floods must consider the geomorphic changes that occur during these extreme events.
There is no sugarcoating it: Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday is a major setback for many antipoverty policies. With a Republican majority in the Senate (and likely in the House as well), there’s little doubt that spending cuts will be up for debate, and tried-and-failed ideas like imposing work requirements on welfare recipients will be […]
In every state where it was on the ballot on Tuesday, protecting abortion care received more votes than Vice President Kamala Harris. This was true regardless of whether the state ultimately went for Harris or for President-elect Donald Trump, and even in the three out of 10 states in which the abortion-related measure did not […]
Voters in 10 states will weigh in on abortion-rights ballot measures this November, but only Nebraskans will cast ballots on two competing initiatives. Initiative 439 would establish a state constitutional right to abortion up to fetal viability or when necessary to protect the “health or life” of the pregnant patient. Initiative 434however, would ban abortion […]
