Climate pact: From celebrations to threats in a year, thanks to ‘Trump effect’
When the world triumphantly celebrated the signing of the landmark Paris climate pact last December, it was hard to imagine that only a year later it might face an existential threat. Then again,...
Obama moves to tie Trump’s hands on Arctic, Atlantic drilling
The White House blocked new leases for oil and gas drilling in sections of the Arctic and Atlantic Tuesday, a high-stakes bid to forestall exploration and tie Donald Trump’s hands. With Trump...
Trump sets ‘tech summit’ with key sector leaders
Key tech sector executives were set to gather this week with President-elect Donald Trump, in a meeting aimed at setting common goals after a divisive election campaign. Among those confirmed to...
Trump picks fossil fuel ally to head environment agency
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday he had tapped Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, criticized as a climate change denier and a staunch fossil fuel ally, to head the...
Trump fortune-telling Zoltar doll provokes New York
There’s little love for Donald Trump in his hometown these days, so New York has been both tickled and repelled by a fortune-telling, Trump-in-a-box mocking his offense-dishing campaign for...
Trump’s enigmatic hair put to the test on US TV
Donald Trump’s hair — a crusty, complex, yellowish affair that has become one of the enigmas of a very weird US presidential race — got messed with big time. The usually brash...
Doctor who praised Trump’s health says he wrote note in a rush
Donald Trump’s personal doctor, who gave the Republican presidential candidate a glowing health report, told NBC News Friday that he penned that note in five minutes as Trump’s car...
Trump resumes fight against windfarm near Scottish golf course
Donald Trump has vowed to continue fighting the windfarm development off the coast from his Aberdeenshire golf course, branding the project an act of “public vandalism”. The US presidential...
