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The United States pledged in 2021 to cut emissions at least in half by 2030, but emissions surged almost 7 percent in 2021. Although the budget bill is currently stalled in the Senate, over $500 billion in clean energy investments in the bill could, according to a recent analysis, put…

On an unusually cold morning in late March, Mayor Eric Adams began his day visiting a child-care center in Queens. Roughly seven miles away, police officers in Brooklyn were carrying out his order to clear homeless encampments, tossing away tents and other belongings in a garbage truck as part of…

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack have grown divided over whether to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department of former President Donald J. Trump, even though they have concluded that they have enough evidence to do so, people involved in the discussions…

History was made earlier this week when Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday, making her the first Black woman to become a Justice of the Supreme Court. And, though it was not quite as monumental in scale, a “Saturday Night Live” sketch commemorated this achievement,…

Hello, readers. It’s the best time of the year: seed time! Has anyone else been gardening? I’ve got containers proliferating on the window and beneath grow lights. I purchased the grow lights last year in an attempt to bring a few stragglers through the winter after the remnants of Hurricane…

In the beginning, there was Alpha. Then Beta, Delta, Omicron and a bunch of lesser-known coronavirus variants in between. We’re used to the cycle now: Right when we think we can breathe a sigh of relief, a new variant appears with fresh mysteries and confusion. It’s frustrating to keep having…

I felt twin flashes of annoyance and concern, then the thunderclap of an epiphany: I was reading my texts without glasses! In a dark car! I could see the full palette of emojis, right down to stripes on the zebra and holes in the Swiss cheese. It wasn’t exactly the…

She also places emphasis on movement as an intrinsic source of pleasure, not a means for delayed gratifications like a cookie, better-fitting clothes or approval from your doctor. “I operate from a space where exercise is fun and engaging, just because it is,” she said. If you’re worried that you’d…