These dogs are trained to try to interrupt panic attacks and provide deep calming pressure to the people they’re matched with.
No matter what kind of U-turn President-Elect Donald Trump will make on climate change, America's clean energy economy won't reverse into the dirty past, a combative but “bitterly disappointed” top American climate negotiator said Monday. During the first day of the U.N. climate talks, COP29, Climate Adviser John Podesta struck a defiant but realistic tone in a press conference.
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's third largest, remains a bit of an enigma 243 years later. Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.
A volunteer member of the Kolkata Police force has gone on trial for the rape and murder of a female doctor at a hospital in India, claiming he was framed.
President Andrzej Duda marked Poland's Independence Day on Monday with a call for sustained U.S. commitment to Europe's security in view of Russian aggression in the region and argued that Ukraine's pre-2014 borders should be restored. Duda spoke as the nation marked the 106th anniversary of its restored independence at the end of World War I after more than a century of being partitioned and ruled by Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary. Across Poland, people gathered to celebrate a day that carries weight for a nation where the bitterness of losing national sovereignty remains a powerful force in political life.
Israel has begun a construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, apparently laying asphalt for a road right along the frontier, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show. Israeli troops have entered the demilitarized zone during the work, the United Nations confirmed to the AP, a violation of the cease-fire rules governing the area. The work, which earlier satellite photos show began in earnest in late September, follows the completion by the Israeli military of new roadways and what appears to be a buffer zone along the Gaza Strip's frontier with Israel.
What appeared to be a fireball may have been a decommissioned SpaceX satellite creating a fiery spectacle as it broke up above Earth's atmosphere.
Mauritius' ruling coalition is set for a “huge defeat” following Sunday's parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth told reporters Monday, acknowledging the rejection of his Militant Socialist Movement even as vote-counting continued. Jugnauth, in office since 2017, had been seeking another five-year term in the Indian Ocean island nation, but his government faced corruption allegations after recordings of politicians and business people were leaked online. The Alliance for Change coalition, led by former prime minister Navin Ramgoolam, appeared poised for victory.
President-elect Trump has previously slammed Biden's signature Inflation Reduction Act. But pressure from GOP lawmakers, whose districts have benefited from clean energy investments, suggests the law is more likely to be stripped down than repealed.
A leading rights group on Monday called for an international force to protect civilians in war-torn Sudan amid reports that a notorious paramilitary group has killed dozens of civilians and committed widespread rapes during a rampage in a province neighboring Khartoum. Sudan has been plunged into war for narly 19 months in a struggle for power between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has been accused of atrocities in multiple areas where it has seized control. Human Rights Watch said the RSF has “killed, injured, and unlawfully detained scores of civilians and raped women and girls” in Gezira.
As the COP29 climate talks started Monday in Azerbaijan, an Indigenous leader half a world away is literally towering over Brazil with a warning about the fate of the Amazon rainforest."It's not worth anything if the government demarcates some Indigenous lands if at the same time it wants to approve oil (prospecting) in the Amazon," she told AFP. Her comments came as Brazil weighs delivering permits to exploit potentially massive oil reserves in the seabed 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the mou
Two more roles for Donald Trump's administration have emerged: Elise Stefanik as UN ambassador and Tom Homan as "border czar."
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory is roiling the opening day of the global climate talks.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in his last administration, will be in charge of the nation’s borders.
Thousands in the Portuguese capital petition authorities to hold a vote on restricting vacation rentals as locals complain they are being priced out of the city by tourism.
The White House gave Israel 30 days to hugely increase the amount of humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. That deadline is approaching fast.
President-elect Donald Trump has started to make some of the pivotal picks for his second administration after swiftly winning the 2024 presidential election.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that homes and power lines were impacted by the earthquake.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia has deployed nearly 50,000 troops to Kursk, the southern Russian region where Kyiv launched its surprise counteroffensive in the summer.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to announce in the coming days that Stephen Miller, his top immigration adviser, will serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy, two sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.