Climate change in Texas science textbooks causes divisions on state's education board (apnews.com)
How science textbooks in Texas address climate change is at the center of a key vote expected Friday after some Republican education officials criticized books for being too negative toward fossil fuels in America’s biggest oil and gas state....
US and Philippines sign a nuclear cooperation pact allowing US investment and technologies (apnews.com)
The United States and the Philippines have signed a nuclear cooperation pact under which U.S. investment and technologies are to help the Southeast Asian nation transition to cleaner energy and bolster its power supply....
Amazon will allow US customers to buy cars on its site from local car dealers starting next year (apnews.com)
A woman is ordered to pay nearly $39K to American Airlines for interfering with a flight crew (apnews.com)
A woman from Hawaii has been ordered to pay nearly $39,000 in restitution to American Airlines for interfering with a crew on a flight last year, according to authorities....
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them (apnews.com)
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them::Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing ads during shows and movies early next year.
More pandas will be coming to the US, China’s president signals (apnews.com)
The world's first gene therapy for sickle cell disease has been approved in Britain (apnews.com)
Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K....
Heavily armed Haitian gang surrounds hospital in capital and traps people inside (apnews.com)
TikTok and Meta challenge Europe's new rules that crack down on digital giants (apnews.com)
An ethnic resistance group in northern Myanmar says an entire army battalion has surrendered to it (apnews.com)
Thousands in Mexico demand justice for LGBTQ+ figure found dead after death threats (apnews.com)
Thousands marched in Mexico’s capital Monday night demanding justice for Jesús Ociel Baena, an influential LGBTQ+ figure who was found dead at home in the central city of Aguascalientes after receiving death threats....
U.N. Security Council schedules a vote on a resolution urging humanitarian pauses, corridors in Gaza (apnews.com)
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UK top court says a plan to send migrants to Rwanda is illegal. The government still wants to do it (apnews.com)
In a major blow to one of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ‘s key policies, the country’s top court ruled that asylum-seekers sent to Rwanda would be “at real risk of ill-treatment” because they could be returned to the conflict-wracked home countries they’d fled....
New 'joint employer' rule could make it easier for millions to unionize - if it survives challenges (apnews.com)
The rule — announced late last month by the National Labor Relations Board –- sets new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act....
California program to lease land under freeways faces scrutiny after major Los Angeles fire (apnews.com)
The area under an elevated Los Angeles freeway that burned last weekend was a kind of open-air warehouse with businesses storing everything from wood pallets to cardboard boxes to hand sanitizer on lots leased by the state through a little-known program that now is under scrutiny....
Energy Department tries to boost US battery industry with another $3.5 billion in funding (apnews.com)
The Energy Department is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them....
UNESCO is criticized after Cambodia evicts thousands around World Heritage site Angkor Wat (apnews.com)
Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each (apnews.com)
109 miners escape from gold mine in South Africa but others continue union standoff, official says (apnews.com)
Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users (apnews.com)
A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions between the Kremlin and the West over the fighting in Ukraine....
Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony (apnews.com)
Philippines joins Japan-led naval drills as brushes with China rise in the disputed South China Sea (apnews.com)
Japan led an annual multinational naval exercise that included the Philippines as an observer for the first time, as Filipino coast guard vessels are increasingly harassed by China in the disputed South China Sea....
John Oliver's campaign for puking mullet bird delays New Zealand vote for favorite feathered friend (apnews.com)
Oliver discovered a loophole in the rules, which allowed anybody with a valid email address to cast a vote. “After all, this is what democracy is all about,” Oliver said on his show. “America interfering in foreign elections.”...