4+ hour, 19+ min ago   (210+ words) FOFA would offer proactive forest management to address wildfire risk by removing regulatory barriers to expedite critical forest projects while preserving core environmental safeguards. The bill implements forest thinning and removal of dead and diseased trees to reduce fire intensity,…...

7+ hour, 17+ min ago   (453+ words) While it’s common to gloss over, even celebrate, enemy combatants’ deaths, it’s much harder for most of us to dismiss civilian deaths, to believe they’re either warranted or otherwise acceptable. But this isn’t a given — and there is reason to…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1184+ words) WASHINGTON — President Trump is brushing aside growing concern among leading scientists and bipartisan lawmakers that artificial intelligence could soon pose an existential threat to humanity, fueling anxiety in Washington and Silicon Valley that the president may not fully grasp the…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (744+ words) The Trump administration is seeking to revise a federal climate report published three years ago to recast worst-case climate scenarios as implausible and limit their use in federal decision-making. The White House has proposed an “amendment and clarification” to the…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (392+ words) Congress did no better with Republican presidents: Taft, Nicaragua; McKinley, the Philippines; Nixon, Cambodia; Reagan, Lebanon and Grenada; and George H. W. Bush, Panama. Complicating the picture, when Congress chimes in, often little good follows. Chemerinsky asks, ”How are we a nation…...