Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree-planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperaturesIt was a relatively cool spring day in Phoenix, Arizona, as a tree-planting crew dug large holes in one of the desert city’s hottest and least shaded neighborhoods.Still, it was sweaty backbreaking work as they carefully positioned, watered and staked a 10ft tall Blue palo verde and Chilean mesquite in opposite corners of...
US legislation that would ban the popular TikTok app remains stalled in the Senate, where key Democrats struggled Wednesday to reach consensus.
Democrats and Republicans will help select their party nominees for various offices.
The leaders of Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom and Kesher Zion Synagogue have chosen to remain a polling location for the primary this year.
This year's race for the White House will be one of the most unusual - and historically consequential - the nation has seen
It's Cicadageddon, and we're just living in it.
This year's iteration is the biggest yet, and includes a joint sail in the West Philippine Sea with the French Navy and the coast guards of the Philippines and US
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded for more weaponry, such as air defences and artillery, from his western allies to fend off Russian attacks. He has warned that if the US Congress continues to hold up a 62 billion dollar military aid package then Ukraine will lose its war against Russia.Also in the programme: US officials say retaliation from Iran in response to Israeli strikes of its consulate could happen as soon as today; and we find how a long lost silent film featuring...
Consumer price increases remained high last month, boosted by gas, rents and car insurance, the government said in a report that will likely give pause to the Federal Reserve as it weighs when and by how much to cut interest rates this year.
ZELENSKY’S BITTERSWEET VICTORY: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is getting plenty of kudos for putting his job on the line by relenting and allowing a vote on a Ukraine aid bill that would have easily passed in Congress six months ago — and saved untold Ukrainian lives. “I am so proud of the speaker,” Rep. […]
It's now more likely than ever than ByteDance will have to give up TikTok – or see the app banned in the US.
The $61bn (£49bn) aid package keeps Ukraine in the fight but it's no silver bullet, BBC's James Waterhouse writes from Kyiv.