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Azerbaijan's BAKU Whether it's a clean energy transition project or aiding developing nations in lessening the consequences of natural disasters, ambitious climate action frequently necessitates ambitious financing. However, what should have been a crucial year for financing mitigation initiatives has instead proven to be an extremely difficult one as extreme weather becomes more commonplace and global temperatures rise. In an attempt to reach a crucial agreement on climate finance, some 50,000 individuals from 200 nations, including the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan for the first time, were in Azerbaijan for this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference. Although the conference was scheduled to conclude on Friday, discussions regarding funding continued into the weekend. At the C...

According to a senior U.S. defense official, a senior Hezbollah commander who assisted in organizing one of the most audacious and complex strikes against American troops during the Iraq War was killed in a recent Israeli bombing in Syria. After the 2007 attack in which militants masquerading as an American security squad killed five U.S. soldiers, U.S. forces seized Ali Mussa Daqduq. Later, however, the Iraqi authorities freed him. There were few details available about the Israeli airstrike. According to the senior defense official, it was not immediately apparent when the strike occurred, where in Syria it occurred, or whether Daqduq was the precise target. A request for comment was not immediately answered by a Pentagon official. Questions were sent to the Israeli military by the embas...

The judge presiding over Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking case postponed his decision on whether to release him on bond until next week. U.S. District Judge Aran Subramanian requested Combs' lawyers and prosecutors to provide documents by Monday detailing the precise conditions of his release during a hearing held in federal court in Manhattan on Friday. Combs, looking gaunt, waved and blew kisses to his mother and kids in the gallery's second row. During the hearing, prosecutor Christy Slavik contended that granting the music mogul's request would be risky. In addition to breaking the law and paying his way out of detention, he poses a risk of fleeing, endangers the community, and tries to undermine the fairness of these proceedings," Slavik stated. According to defense lawyer Marc Agn...

Families of migrants and immigration advocacy organizations are bracing for the possibility that millions of families would be split up during President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportations. The specifics of the deportations and the effects they will have on families are unknown. However, according to a recent research by the pro-immigration advocacy group American Immigration Council, up to 4 million mixed-status families—some of whom have U.S. citizens and others of whom do not—may be split up. Advocates, asylum-seekers, and mixed-status families in states including Arizona, Colorado, and Pennsylvania say they are preparing for the possibility that their children will be taken from their parents. Lillie, a U.S. citizen who chose not to use her last name for fear of her family's safety,...

On Friday, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has appointed Oregon congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer as his labor secretary. According to Trump, Chavez-DeRemer has put in countless hours working with labor and business to support Americans and expand the U.S. workforce. Trump said in a statement that he was looking forward to working with her to restore our manufacturing jobs, increase training and apprenticeships, raise pay, and improve working conditions for American workers. Earlier this month, Chavez-DeRemer, a 2022 congressional elector, lost her seat to Democrat Janelle Bynum.Note: Every piece of content is rigorously reviewed by our team of experienced writers and editors to ensure its accuracy. Our writers use credible sources and adhere to strict fact-checking pro...

Russell Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 and a platform policy director for the Republican National Committee, was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump on Friday as his choice to head the Office of Management and Budget. In his announcement, Trump called Vought, who served in the position during his first term, "an aggressive cost cutter and deregulator who will help us implement our America First Agenda across all Agencies." "Russ knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State and end Weaponized Government, and he will help us return Self Governance to the People," Trump stated. "We will restore fiscal sanity to our Nation, and unleash the American People to new levels of Prosperity and Ingenuity." "Thank you @realDonaldTrump!" was Vought's message on Xon on Friday night in respons...

Daniel Penny's lawyers rested their case Friday. Penny is on trial for manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in connection with the May 2023 chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely on the New York City subway. After Thanksgiving, the jury is anticipated to begin deliberations and hear closing statements. Penny may spend up to 15 years behind bars if found guilty of the more serious charge of manslaughter. According to authorities, Neely, 30, a Michael Jackson lookalike with a history of mental illness, had been acting strangely but not aggressively. He and Penny were on a F train when Penny flung him to the ground and choked him for six minutes. They claimed that when Penny continued to choke Neely after he was no longer a threat, his conduct were illegal. The two men's bysta...

On Friday, Johns Hopkins University pancreatic surgeon Dr. Marty Makary, who has made contentious statements regarding COVID, was named by President-elect Donald Trump to be the Food and Drug Administration's commissioner. According to the university's website, Makary is the head of Islet Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins. A member of the National Academy of Medicine, a division of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, he also held a leadership position at the World Health Organization Patient Safety Program. In addition, he frequently appears on Fox News and has been a prominent adviser to the conservative health care think group Paragon Health Institute. "Americans no longer trust the FDA, and the agency has forgotten its main regulatory objective. Trump stated ...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn.—A jury found two men guilty on Friday of human smuggling charges for their involvement in a global operation that killed a family of Indian migrants who froze while attempting to cross the border between Canada and the United States during a 2022 blizzard. Prosecutors claim that Steve Shand, 50, an American from Florida, and Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian national who went by the pseudonym Dirty Harry, were involved in a complex unlawful scheme that has resulted in an increase in the number of Indians entering the United States. Each of them was found guilty on four charges of human smuggling, including conspiring to illegally enter the nation with migrants. According to Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger, this trial revealed the unspeakable brutality of human...