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Pauline Binam, a 30-year-old former detainee at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, had been in custody for about

President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that if you excluded blue states, America’s Covid-19 death numbers would look much better.

Some 80 million pigs live on farms in the United States at any given time in 2020. The total number

Editor’s note: This piece was originally published in March and has been lightly updated. There has been no more dramatic

“Innovation” is a fraught concept in climate politics. For years, it was used as a kind of fig leaf to

The United States has suffered one of the worst Covid-19 epidemics in the world. But here’s a bit of good

On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that would make it easier for the state’s inmate firefighters to

The one word experts keep using to describe the gargantuan ongoing wildfires in the western United States is “unprecedented.” California

With heat waves, wildfires, intense hurricanes, and other extreme weather events in the headlines, the ravages of climate change have

All of recorded human history has happened during a period in which the average global temperature didn’t change by more