Eliot Jacobson: November kept on going where October left off, once again reaching an average anomaly of 1.55°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making November the third warmest since records began, and likely the third warmest in the last 120,000 years.

Who Gets a Presidential Pardon?

This piece fails to comprehend or dissect the essentially transactional nature of Trump's wielding of the pardon power. You purchase a pardon from him. The going rate is now seven figures. And the means of payment can be very complicated and must be agreed in advance through third-party brokers.

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.

Only a failed head of the Crown Prosecution Service, resentful over having been bested in court too many times, would propose something like this. Shameful. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Charting the planned implosion of the NIH under Trump.

ECB refuses to provide backstop for €140bn Ukraine loan Central bank rejects role in European Commission proposal to use frozen Russian assets, saying it would be illegal

in raising the giant loan against Russian central bank assets immobilised at Euroclear, the Belgian securities depository. It comes amid pressure on the EU to finance Ukraine for the next two years, as Kyiv faces a cash crunch amid a renewed Russian military onslaught and a US peace initiative.

US government backs Bayer bid to curb Roundup claims Solicitor-general’s backing lifts hopes of reducing litigation, pushing up German group’s shares

The corruption in this case is manifest, and exactly what Bayer was banking on. www.ft.com/content/255f...

Radar revelation stokes fears Caribbean could be drawn into US-Venezuela crisis Trinidad PM rejects claims installation is in support of US campaign but opposition says ‘they have sold soul of nation’

The revelation that Trinidad and Tobago has approved the installation of a US military radar installation has stoked fears that the Caribbean could be drawn into the escalating crisis between the US and Venezuela.

Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war

Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.

How Trump’s on-again, off-again Nasa appointee emerged from a political black hole Trump’s renomination of billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman is a tale of politics, ambition and vanity

Elon Musk is set to get his pick to run NASA as he moves closer to taking the space agency private under his tutelage. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The hidden risks of passive fixed income investing.

How renewables have spread across China.

And this is balanced by a huge surge in energy storage capacity

The collapse in FDI to China in 2022 was dramatic.

The shorter Elise Stefanik: if I can't get a cabinet post, and can't even be UN ambassador, and have no prospect of being governor of New York, at least I can replace that weasel Mike Johnson as speaker.

Which Is Worse: The Crimes of “Socialism” or the Crimes of “Capitalism”? A Brief Comparison

Which Is Worse: The Crimes of “Socialism” or the Crimes of “Capitalism”? Bruce Bartlett compiles a list of the "crimes of capitalism," which are easily far more horrible than the "crimes of capitalism."

Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment? Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food.

People taking diabetes and weight-loss drugs such as semaglutide (also marketed as Wegovy) and tirzepatide (sold as Mounjaro or Zepbound) find themselves suddenly able to shake long-standing addictions to cigarettes, alcohol and other drugs. And now, clinical data are starting to back them up.

The best tribute to Tom Stoppard I've seen so far.

If you live in TN-7, get out and vote today

Sen Mark Kelly's speech on Trump yesterday is, from the perspective of rhetoric, a very solid product.

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

Interest in, use of Twiter in sharp decline among US adults. www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

UK pension funds dump US equities on fears of AI bubble Public and private-sector funds concerned over market’s growing concentration in a small number of tech stocks

The signs of imminent market collapse for US equities are all around us, including this. www.ft.com/content/9d90...

their conduct and respond to questions about it. This should occur only after discovery in which the underlying documentation, including all forms of written communications, are produced to congressional investigators and can furnish the basis for questioning.

(1) No proper journalistic ethic authorizes anonymity of sources spreading official disinformation, as here. A clear standards failure by NYT. (2) This sets up a situation in which the appropriate next step is public hearings in Congress in which the actors are required, under oath, to account for

Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight. “People are like, ‘aren’t you mad?’” she said, standing in front of her shop, whose window was boarded up. Ms. Fujimoto heard the commotion and tore out of the store, shouting that immigration agents were there. “I felt like Paul Revere,” she recalled.

Democrats begin congressional probe of Kash Patel's use of FBI Gulfstream jet House Democrats allege Patel has used the FBI's Gulfstream jet for a "date night" in Tennessee and an outing with friends in Texas.

Congressional probe opened into Kash Patel's use of FBI jet to taxi around his girl friend. www.cbsnews.com/news/democra...