Volkswagen Passat review: Sensible but pricey long-range plug-in hybrid estate

The Volkswagen Passat is a long-running model that’s been given a plug-in hybrid polish in its latest guise. With an ...
KSDK

Union approves Boeing contract, ending three-month strike

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 approved the latest contract offer from Boeing on Thursday, ending the strike after ...
Live Science

It's official: The world will speed past 1.5 C climate threshold in the next decade, UN says

The UNEP's 2025 Emissions Gap report has found that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5 C (2.7 F) before 2035 — and this just days before the COP30 climate summit kicks off in Brazil. When you ...
CNN

World will overshoot 1.5 degree climate goal, UN says

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United ...
The Economist

For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead

WHEN THE ECONOMIST warned in 2022 that keeping global warming to just 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was no longer plausible, we took some flak. Critics worried that such thinking sapped the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Nigerian Labor Union Agrees to End Dangote Oil Refinery Strike

Nigeria’s main oil labor union will end a strike that threatened to cut crude supplies to the Dangote oil refinery, after the company agreed to reassign workers who’ve been laid off. The Petroleum and ...
New York Post

Democrats’ $1.5 trillion demand to keep the gov’t open sets a new record for gall

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. AP Senate Democrats this week said they’d let the Republican ...
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Congress Should Not Add $1.5 Trillion to Debt in CR

Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 will end at midnight on September 30, and unless policymakers agree on passing all 12 appropriations bills or passing a continuing resolution (CR) before then, the federal ...
National Geographic news

'Type 1.5' diabetes is real—and underdiagnosed. Here’s how it differs from type 1 and 2

Most people know there are two types of diabetes—type 1 and type 2. Knowing which one you have matters quite a lot for how you treat them. But what you may not know about is a lesser-known variation ...
The New York Times

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco ...
Reuters

What is NATO's new 5% defence spending target?

BRUSSELS, June 23 (Reuters) - NATO leaders are expected to endorse a big new defence spending target at an alliance summit in The Hague on Wednesday, as demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump. Here ...