Day: November 9, 2024

Experts don’t know how much gas prices may rise from the new climate rules, which give incentives for low-carbon fuels. The board ordered an annual review.

On Thursday evening, Vladimir Putin spent more than three hours treating a crowd at the Valdai Discussion Forum to his usual litany of criticisms of the West for its “neocolonial policies” and the destruction of “traditional values.” As he’s done many times, the Russian president talked about the emerging “multipolar world” and argued that “Russia’s existence” guarantees the survival of the globe’s “diversity, variety, and complexity, which is a key to successful development.” Meduza’s Andrey Pertsev explains how the Kremlin hopes to etch Putin’s Valdai Club speech in history.

Louisiana lawmakers have advanced bills to flatten the state’s income tax rate and repeal the corporate franchise tax in a special legislative session focused on passing Gov.

The election of Donald Trump returns an ally of school choice to the White House, this time with a Republican-controlled Senate — and potentially House — that could be more supportive of the kind of initiatives that fizzled during his first term.

Works from the Boy Scouts of America’s art collection, including some paintings by Norman Rockwell, will go up for auction to help compensate tens of thousands of people, mainly men, who were sexually abused while in scouting.

Foreign leaders have rushed to ingratiate themselves with Donald J. Trump in recent days, nervously recalling the clashes, insults and feuds of his first presidency.

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