US President Joe Biden has vowed to ensure a “peaceful and orderly transition” to his Republican predecessor and now successor, Donald Trump. “We accept the choice the country made,” the…
Getty Images The party that will control the US House of Representatives for the next two years is not yet decided – but the Republicans look to be inching towards…
Police are on the hunt for 43 monkeys who escaped from a research facility in South Carolina, after a keeper left their pen open. The rhesus macaque fugitives broke out…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election. Calling him “courageous”, Putin said he was impressed by Trump’s reaction to the first…
Teeny tardigrades can survive space and lethal radiation. Scientists may finally know how Space.com Salamanders are surprisingly abundant in US northeastern forests, research finds Phys.org What Chickens Know: On Bonding…
President Claudia Sheinbaum, her governing party, Morena, and arguably Mexico as a whole just dodged a rather large bullet. Despite her landslide victory and her party’s super-majority in both legislative…
Yves here. While this post usefully marks how Presidential mission creep, by Presidential design and Congressional neglect, accelerated starting in the W era, IMHO it goes light on some of…
Yves here. We’ve posted from time to time on the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, since it makes for a case study of how various institutions are coping…
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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I rebooted the syndemics section, so the politics section is temporarily very light. More soon! –lambert UPDATE All done! Bird Song of the…