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Funny if not so weird and disrespectful. Immigration and Customs Enforcement a…
Funny if not so weird and disrespectful.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopping and questioning in harassing ways members of Native American tribes, apparently suspicious that they may be undocumented immigrants.
ICE agents are feeling invincible.
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Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking Putin’s residence with drones; Kyiv denies allegations #Russia #accuses #Ukraine #attacking #Putins #residence #drones #Kyiv #denies #allegations
The conflict, which began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of launching a large-scale drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences in the Novgorod region, a claim kyiv dismissed as a “fabrication” intended to derail ongoing peace talks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine deployed 91 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) overnight from Sunday to Monday. He claimed that all drones were intercepted and destroyed by Russian air defenses and that there were no casualties or damage. Lavrov called Ukraine’s actions “state terrorism” and warned that Russia would reconsider its negotiating position in the U.S.-led peace process.
Ukraine has strongly denied these allegations. President Volodymyr Zelensky called the claims “typical Russian lies” designed to justify further attacks on Ukraine and undermine peace efforts with the United States. “It is essential that the world does not remain silent now,” Zelensky said on X, calling for continued international support for the negotiations.
The accusation comes shortly after Zelensky met with US President Donald Trump in Florida to discuss a revised peace plan. Ukraine says it has accepted 90% of the US proposal, including post-war security guarantees, although territorial disputes remain unresolved.
Zelensky rejected the request
Speaking to Fox News, Zelensky said that while there is a “possibility of ending this war” by 2026, Ukraine still counts on support from the United States. He also expressed skepticism about Putin’s desire to seek peace.
The conflict, which began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has left much of the eastern Donbass region disputed. Russia controls around 75% of Donetsk and 99% of Luhansk, while Ukraine continues to resist Moscow’s advances.
As tensions rise, international attention is now focused on whether alleged attacks like the one on Putin’s residence further complicate the fragile peace process.
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2025 was one of the three hottest years on record, scientists say #hottest #years #record #scientists
By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Climate change made worse by human behavior has made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists say.
It was also the first time the three-year average temperature exceeded the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times. Experts say keeping Earth below this limit could save lives and prevent catastrophic environmental destruction worldwide.
The analysis by World Weather Attribution researchers, published Tuesday in Europe, comes after a year in which people around the world were slammed by dangerous extremes caused by global warming.
Temperatures remained high despite the presence of a La Nina phenomenon, the occasional natural cooling of the waters of the Pacific Ocean that influences weather patterns around the world. The researchers cited the continued burning of fossil fuels – oil, gas and coal – that send greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that contribute to global warming.
“If we don’t stop burning fossil fuels very, very, quickly, very soon, it’s going to be very difficult to achieve that goal” of warming, Friederike Otto, co-founder of World Weather Attribution and a climate scientist at Imperial College London, told the Associated Press. “The science is getting clearer and clearer.”
Extremes in 2025
Extreme weather events kill thousands of people and cost billions of dollars in damages each year.
WWA scientists identified 157 extreme weather events as the most severe in 2025, meaning they met criteria such as causing more than 100 deaths, affecting more than half of a region’s population or having declared a state of emergency. Of these, they closely analyzed 22.
This included dangerous heat waves, which WWA predicted would be the world’s deadliest extreme weather events in 2025. Researchers said some of the heat waves they studied in 2025 were 10 times more likely than they would have been a decade ago due to climate change.
“The heat waves we saw this year are fairly common events in our current climate, but they would have been almost impossible to occur without human-induced climate change,” Otto said. “It makes a huge difference.”
Meanwhile, a prolonged drought contributed to wildfires that ravaged Greece and Turkey. Torrential rains and flooding in Mexico have killed dozens of people and left many more missing. Super Typhoon Fung-wong hit the Philippines, forcing more than a million people to evacuate. Monsoon rains hit India, causing floods and landslides.
The WWA said increasingly frequent and severe extremes threaten the ability of millions of people around the world to respond and adapt to these events with sufficient warning, time and resources, what scientists call “the limits of adaptation.” The report cites Hurricane Melissa as an example: the storm intensified so quickly that it made forecasting and planning more difficult, and hit Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti so severely that it left small island nations unable to respond and manage its extreme losses and damage.
Global climate negotiations fail
This year’s UN climate talks in Brazil in November ended without any explicit plan to move away from fossil fuels, and although more money was pledged to help countries adapt to climate change, it will take longer for them to do so.
Officials, scientists and analysts have admitted that Earth’s warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit), although some say it remains possible to reverse that trend.
Yet progress varies by country.
China is rapidly deploying renewable energy, including solar and wind, but it also continues to invest in coal. Although increasingly frequent extreme weather has prompted calls for climate action across Europe, some countries say it limits economic growth. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Trump administration has moved the nation away from clean energy policy in favor of measures to support coal, oil and gas.
“The geopolitical weather is very cloudy this year, with many policymakers very clearly making policies in the interests of the fossil fuel industry rather than in the interests of their countries’ populations,” Otto said. “And we’re faced with a huge amount of misinformation and misinformation that people have to deal with. »
Andrew Kruczkiewicz, a senior researcher at the Columbia University Climate School who was not involved in the WWA work, said as places are experiencing disasters they are not accustomed to, extreme events are escalating faster and becoming more complex. This requires earlier warnings and new approaches to response and recovery, he said.
“Globally, progress is being made,” he added, “but we need to do more.”
Alexa St. John is a climate reporter for the Associated Press. Follow her on X: @alexa_stjohn. Contact her at ast.john@ap.org.
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