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Young athlete in Montana climate change trial testifies he uses inhaler due to forest fire smoke

A high school athlete who along with 15 other young people took Montana to court over climate change testified Tuesday that increased smoke from forest fires makes it difficult for him to compete and that a doctor prescribed an inhaler to help his breathing problems. Mica Kantor, now 15, said he has been worried about climate change since as a 4-year-old he dictated a letter to Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., because he was too young to write it himself. He said it’s increasingly difficult to run or go on hikes with his family, and that the

Young athlete in Montana climate change trial testifies he uses inhaler due to forest fire smoke
World

Trump arrives at Miami court for historic appearance over charges he hoarded secret documents

Former President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Miami to surrender to authorities ahead of a historic court appearance on charges that he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He was expected to face a magistrate judge, kickstarting a legal process that will unfold at the height of the 2024 presidential campaign and carry profound consequences not only for his political future but more urgently for his own personal liberty. Four black SUVs entered the garage beneath the Miami courthouse, followed by police officers, ahead of his scheduled 3 p.m.

Trump arrives at Miami court for historic appearance over charges he hoarded secret documents
World

Walt Nauta is the latest Trump loyalist to face potential jail time after working for him

When former President Donald Trump appeared in federal court Tuesday, he was joined at the defense table by a man well-practiced in standing by his side: his valet turned alleged co-conspirator, Walt Nauta. Nauta, a Navy veteran who fetched Trump’s Diet Cokes as his valet at the White House before joining him as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago, now finds himself in legal jeopardy alongside the former president. He is accused of moving boxes containing reams of sensitive information at Trump’s direction and then lying about it to investigators. On Tuesday, Nauta traveled in the former

Walt Nauta is the latest Trump loyalist to face potential jail time after working for him
World

Putin says he might try to seize nearby territory in Ukraine to prevent cross-border strikes

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Tuesday that he could order his troops to try to seize more land in Ukraine to protect bordering Russian territory and asserted that Ukrainian forces had suffered “catastrophic” losses in a new counteroffensive. In some of his most detailed remarks about the war in months, the Russian leader also said he was not contemplating a new troop mobilization, as many Russians have feared, but did not rule it out. And he reiterated Russia’s claim that Ukraine was responsible for blowing up a Dnieper River dam that caused vast flooding on both

Putin says he might try to seize nearby territory in Ukraine to prevent cross-border strikes
World

Bruce Cassidy coaches Vegas Golden Knights to Stanley Cup

Bruce Cassidy struggled so badly in his first NHL coaching job with Washington that it knocked him out of the league for more than a decade. Cassidy coached in the junior ranks and the minors before getting a second chance with Boston. When he was fired from that job, he was out of work a grand total of a week before the Vegas Golden Knights hired him. Less than a full calendar year since putting pen to paper with Vegas, Cassidy and the Golden Knights won the Stanley Cup after beating the Florida Panthers in five

Bruce Cassidy coaches Vegas Golden Knights to Stanley Cup
Arts

'Hair,' 'Everwood' actor Treat Williams dies after Vermont motorcycle crash

Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series “Everwood” and the movie “Hair,” died Monday after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said. He was 71. Shortly before 5 p.m., a Honda SUV was turning left into a parking lot when it collided with Williams’ motorcycle in the town of Dorset, according to a statement from Vermont State Police. “Williams was unable to avoid a collision and was thrown from his motorcycle. He suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York, where he

'Hair,' 'Everwood' actor Treat Williams dies after Vermont motorcycle crash
World

Leader of Belarus says he wouldn't hesitate to use Russian nuclear weapons to repel aggression

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declared Tuesday that his country had already has received some of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons and warned that he wouldn’t hesitate to order their use if Belarus faced an act of aggression. The brash comments from Lukashenko contradicted earlier statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said Russian nuclear weapons would be deployed to Belarus next month and emphasized that they would remain under Moscow’s exclusive control. Earlier this year, Putin announced the planned deployment of short-range nuclear weapons to Moscow’s neighbor and ally Belarus in a move widely seen as a warning

Leader of Belarus says he wouldn't hesitate to use Russian nuclear weapons to repel aggression
Science

COVID-19 inquiry in UK asks whether 'terrible consequences' could have been avoided or reduced

A mammoth three-year public inquiry into the U.K. government’s handling of the response to COVID-19 opened Tuesday by asking if some suffering and death could have been avoided with better planning — and whether Britain’s complex, protracted exit from the European Union distracted authorities from preparing for potential threats. Lawyer Hugo Keith, who is counsel to the inquiry, said the coronavirus pandemic had brought “death and illness on an unprecedented scale” in modern Britain. He said that COVID-19 had been recorded as a cause of death for 226,977 people in the U.K. “The key issue is whether

COVID-19 inquiry in UK asks whether 'terrible consequences' could have been avoided or reduced
Arts

The Beatles are releasing their 'final' record. AI helped make it possible

Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday. McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles’ voices from background sounds during the making of director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary series, “The Beatles: Get Back.” The “new” song is set to be released later this year, he said. Jackson was “able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano,” McCartney told BBC radio. “He

The Beatles are releasing their 'final' record. AI helped make it possible
Political

Prosecuting a former president is not an easy decision. A criminal law professor explains why

Former President Donald Trump speaks out against his federal indictment on June 10, 2023, during a speech in Georgia. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The question of whether to indict a former U.S. president is a difficult one. And yet, a state prosecutor has charged Donald Trump with violating New York business laws. And a federal prosecutor has charged Trump with violating national security laws as well. On one hand, the U.S. judiciary system is based on a basic principle of English law that dates back to the early 1200s, that no one is above the law. As medieval jurist Henry de

Prosecuting a former president is not an easy decision. A criminal law professor explains why
Arts

As a stolen silver sleuth, German curator returns heirlooms Jewish families lost in the Holocaust

An independent German commission on Tuesday recommended that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned the piece of art. The commission can be called on in cases of disputes over the restitution of Nazi-confiscated cultural property, especially Jewish property. In the case of the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann and Irma Lewenstein Klein versus Bayerische Landesbank, the commission advised that the 1907 painting “The Colorful Life” by Russian artist Kandinsky be returned to the heirs. The commission’s recommendations are non-binding

As a stolen silver sleuth, German curator returns heirlooms Jewish families lost in the Holocaust
Health

Annual numbers of excess deaths in the US relative to other developed countries are growing at an alarming rate

Homicides and the opioid epidemic both contribute to the rising U.S. death rates. Rubber Ball Productions/Brand X Pictures via Getty Images The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea People in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and that difference is only growing. That’s the key finding of a new study that I published in the journal PLOS One. In 2021, more than 892,000 of the 3,456,000 deaths the U.S. experienced, or about 1 in 4, were “excess deaths.” In 2019, that number was 483,000 deaths, or

Annual numbers of excess deaths in the US relative to other developed countries are growing at an alarming rate
Political

The overlooked story of the incarceration of Japanese Americans from Hawaii during World War II

A 1945 photograph of detainees at the Honouliuli Internment Camp. courtesy of National Park Service In the months and years following Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S. government incarcerated a large number of Japanese American civilians from the U.S. mainland. Often forgotten are the Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii and were also forced from their homes and imprisoned in Hawaii and on the U.S. mainland. Their forced relocation and incarceration has been largely omitted from the dominant narrative of Japanese American internment in the U.S. during World War II. Additionally, attempts by

The overlooked story of the incarceration of Japanese Americans from Hawaii during World War II
Arts

After 'Rapper's Delight,' hip-hop went global – its impact has been massive; so too efforts to keep it real

MC Solaar, a pioneer of French rap Photo by Eric Catarina/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Soon after the fall 1979 release of “Rapper’s Delight,” versions of the first commercially successful rap recording began cropping up around the world. Two Portuguese-language versions, “Bons Tempos” and “Melô Do Tagarela,” were put out in Brazil. One version from Jamaica provided a relatively faithful recreation of the Sugarhill Gang original, while “Hotter Reggae Music” slowed down the track, transforming it into reggae. Other local language versions came from the Netherlands with “Hallo, Hallo, Hallo,” Venezuela with “La Cotorra Criolla” and Germany with “Rapper’s Deutsch.” ‘Rapper’s

After 'Rapper's Delight,' hip-hop went global – its impact has been massive; so too efforts to keep it real
Arts

How TV shows have grappled with a post-Dobbs America

In a March 2023 episode of ‘Accused,’ a teacher tries to help his student navigate the hurdles of getting an abortion. Steve Wilkie/FOX Two doctors sit, despondent, on the side of a busy road as they watch an EMT zip up the body of their patient into a body bag. The patient died as a direct result of a fatal ectopic pregnancy, which her OB-GYN refused to treat because of a new anti-abortion law in her home state. Tears in her eyes, one of the doctors responds to questions from the EMT about the death. Then she shouts: “It’s the

How TV shows have grappled with a post-Dobbs America
Political

Silvio Berlusconi had a complex relationship with US presidents: Friend to one, shunned by another

Things looking up for the Bush-Berlusconi relationship. Philippe Desmazes/AFP via Getty Images) When the administration of Geroge W. Bush needed an ally to help sell its proposed invasion of Iraq to a skeptical European audience, Silvio Berlusconi stepped forward. It wasn’t that the Italian prime minister was particularly concerned over the threat of Saddam Hussein’s imagined weapons of mass destruction to his country, or the region – he wasn’t. But it was a chance for the former businessman to burnish his credentials as an international statesman and to draw the U.S. closer into Italy’s orbit. Indeed, strengthening U.S.-Italian relations was

Silvio Berlusconi had a complex relationship with US presidents: Friend to one, shunned by another
Arts

Tina Turner musical on national tour gains extra meaning in the wake of the rock icon's death

The national tour of Broadway’s “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical” makes its California debut this week, arriving as a poignant, posthumous celebration following the rock music icon’s death last month. “Tina” opens in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre on Wednesday, steps away from her Hollywood Walk of Fame star and where she recorded for Capitol Records. It plays there until July 9, followed by two weeks at Segerstrom Center the Arts in Costa Mesa and stops in San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose later this summer. “We have always wanted to put

Tina Turner musical on national tour gains extra meaning in the wake of the rock icon's death
Political

Surveillance has caught hackers and fentanyl smugglers, White House says in promoting spying law

The U.S. has used electronic surveillance programs to catch fentanyl smugglers and the hackers who temporarily shut down a major U.S. fuel pipeline, the White House said Tuesday as part of its push to have those programs renewed by Congress. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expires at the end of this year. President Joe Biden’s administration is trying to convince Congress to renew the law, which authorizes spy agencies to capture huge swaths of foreign emails and phone calls. But lawmakers in both parties have concerns about protecting Americans’ privacy from warrantless searches after

Surveillance has caught hackers and fentanyl smugglers, White House says in promoting spying law
World

Eric Trump accompanies father to federal courthouse | Live updates

Follow along for live updates on former President Donald Trump, who is making his first court appearance Tuesday after being indicted on 37 charges related to the mishandling classified documents. The indictment marks the first time in U.S. history that a former president faces criminal charges by the federal government he once oversaw. ___ TRUMP RODE TO COURT WITH HIS SON ERIC Trump rode to court with his son Eric, who accompanied the motorcade from the former president’s Doral resort to the federal courthouse in Miami. CNN aired footage of Trump walking to a line of SUVs

Eric Trump accompanies father to federal courthouse | Live updates
World

Buttigieg vows federal help to fix collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg promised Tuesday to help repair the East Coast’s main north-south highway as quickly as possible and said that the destruction of a section of I-95 will likely raise the cost of consumer goods because truckers must now travel longer routes. Speaking near the site where an out-of-control tractor-trailer hauling gasoline flipped over on an Interstate 95 off-ramp and caught fire, Buttigieg said he expected that disruptions in trucking routes will put “upward pressure” on shipping costs along the East Coast. Buttigieg toured the site and then, over the sounds of heavy machinery and demolition, told

Buttigieg vows federal help to fix collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia
World

Passenger recounts fight to breathe after boat capsized in underground water tunnel in New York

A passenger thrown from a boat that flipped over with 29 people aboard during a tour of a dimly lit cavern system said he fought to breathe in the chilly water under the capsized craft. The flat-bottomed boat carrying local hospitality workers capsized Monday during a tour of an historic underground water tunnel off the Erie Canal in the western New York city of Lockport, killing one person. “By the time I realized what happened, the boat was on top of me and I couldn’t find any air pockets or anything. And I’m just trying to,

Passenger recounts fight to breathe after boat capsized in underground water tunnel in New York
Science

'Obamacare' will still cover prevention for HIV, other illnesses amid court battle

The government can keep enforcing “Obamacare” requirements that health insurance plans cover preventative care — such as HIV prevention, some types of cancer screenings and other illnesses — while a legal battle over the mandates plays out, under a court agreement approved Tuesday. The pact approved by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals preserves — at least for now — cost-free preventive care coverage for millions of Americans under the Affordable Care Act. That coverage was thrown into question by a March ruling from a federal judge in Texas, who said some of the preventive care requirements under former

'Obamacare' will still cover prevention for HIV, other illnesses amid court battle
Science

Few rehab centers for addicted teens offer recommended medicine, US study finds

Only 1 in 4 residential treatment centers for teens offers a recommended medicine for opioid addiction, according to a study that exposes an important gap in care. Posing as an aunt or uncle seeking help for a fictitious 16-year-old who survived a fentanyl overdose, researchers called U.S. rehabs and asked if they offered the treatment medication buprenorphine. Of 160 facilities with care for teens, just 39 provided buprenorphine, also known by the brand name Suboxone. One hundred said they didn’t and 21 said they didn’t know. “As somebody who’s tried to promote the use of evidence-based treatments for addiction my

Few rehab centers for addicted teens offer recommended medicine, US study finds
World

Mayor of Mexican border city of Tijuana living at army base after receiving threats

The mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana said she has decided to live at an army base for her own safety, after she received threats. Mayor Montserrat Caballero announced the decision after confirming that police had found seven dead bodies stuffed in a pickup truck on Monday. Police said they found the pickup truck parked at a gas station in Tijuana with the doors open; on the back seat of the cab lay a body wrapped in a blanket. Hidden under tires and wooden boards were six more bodies. “I have received threats, so

Mayor of Mexican border city of Tijuana living at army base after receiving threats
World

Trump supporters cheer wildly as he arrives at Miami courthouse, while others protest

Supporters of former President Donald Trump honked their horns and screamed wildly as the former president arrived at the courthouse in downtown Miami to make his first appearance on criminal charges that he improperly held on to classified documents. Hundreds of journalists from around the world were also on hand at the federal courthouse, as were anti-Trump protestors. Among the crowd, some waved signs and flags, with the two factions at times shouting over one another. Journalists from China, the UK, Australia, France, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Germany and Switzerland were among the hundreds of reporters who have

Trump supporters cheer wildly as he arrives at Miami courthouse, while others protest

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