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aura Healey made history on Election Day, becoming the first woman to be elected governor of Massachusetts and the first openly lesbian governor in U.S. history. Healey, who was the first openly gay attorney general elected in the country in 2014, was previously a civil rights lawyer. She led the first state challenge to the Defense of Marriage […]

ATLANTA — A Powerball player in California holds the only winning ticket in Tuesday’s drawing for the $2.04 billion jackpot, according to the game’s website, ending a string of 40 drawings that produced no winners and pushed the top prize into record territory. The lucky ticket holder, whose identity was not disclosed, has a choice of […]

NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against seven Haitian gang leaders for the kidnappings of numerous U.S. citizens, including Christian missionaries and children. The missionaries were part of a group of 16 U.S. citizens, most of whom were held captive for 61 days before escaping. The group included five […]

BERLIN — More than 120 world leaders will attend this year’s U.N. climate talks, and requests by environmental activists to stage a rally during the event would be responded to “positively,” host Egypt said. Veteran diplomat Wael Aboulmagd, who heads the Egyptian delegation, told reporters Friday that his country had been working for months to set […]

In South Africa, a country where ‘braai’ all-day barbecuing is a national pastime, plant-based substitutes are making surprising inroads despite a deep cultural love of meat and hostility from the regulator. That could be heartening for climate scientists, who say shifting diets from emissions-heavy meat and dairy towards more plant-based foods is vital to the […]

Reba McEntire has postponed her upcoming concerts on doctor’s orders. The 67-year-old country music legend has been placed on vocal rest and has therefore cancelled her planned performances this weekend and moved them to December. In a social media statement, she said: “An update about this weekend’s shows. My doctor has advised me to go […]

There are kernels of good news among the torrent of bad news in the latest climate reports. Overall, they show the world is still careening toward a world of climate disasters that will be more frequent and more intense than what we’re already seeing. But the speed at which we’re heading there has slowed. For […]

LONDON — Europe has warmed more than twice as much as the rest of the world over the past three decades and has experienced the greatest temperature increase of any continent, according to a report by the World Meteorological Organization. The report on the state of the climate in Europe follows a summer of extremes. A […]

Adele told fans in a recent Q&A that most people pronounce her name wrong. During a fan Q&A to celebrate the release of her I Drink Wine music video, the British singer shared with the audience that her name is frequently mispronounced. While answering a question, she applauded a fan for pronouncing her name the […]

NAIROBI, KENYA — The U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, starts in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, next week, and climate change activists are pushing major emitters in developed countries to make bigger commitments at the conference. According to a recent report by the U.N. Environment Program, the international community is still falling far short of the […]