What happenedThe House yesterday voted 215-208 to force President Donald Trump to stop military operations in the Iran war unless he gets authorization from Congress. Four Republicans joined all Democrats in passing the war powers resolution, which a bipartisan coalition pushed to the floor over the...
What happenedHungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar yesterday announced a deal with Ukraine that should clear the way for Kyiv to begin the process to join the European Union. Magyar’s predecessor, Viktor Orbán, “fiercely opposed Ukraine’s EU accession,” Politico said, and had used Hungary’s veto in ...
What happenedNew World screwworm, a deadly flesh-eating parasite, has been confirmed in a calf in south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said late yesterday. It was the first case of the fly-borne parasite found in U.S. livestock since 1966.Who said whatScrewworms are “parasitic flies whose...
British Paralympic sprinter John McFall is set to make history as the first disabled astronaut in space. The 45-year-old surgeon is a member of the European Space Agency astronaut reserve and has been cleared to participate in a two-week mission to the Haven-1 commercial space station, set to launch...
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell last year to its lowest level since 2019, according to a report from the MapBiomas monitoring network. That’s “good news” for Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who made the fight against deforestation a “central tenet” of his reign, said France2...
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