Colombia government to propose fresh $2.86 billion tax reform to Congress
The Colombian government plans to pitch a new tax reform to Congress to raise at least 12 trillion pesos ($2.86 billion) needed to finance its budget, Finance Minister Diego Guevara said on Thursday, ...
Pauses on US foreign aid and other grants send funders and nonprofits scrambling
The Trump administration has made or initiated major policy changes that impact nonprofits and their missions in its first ...
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Sunshine State Book Festival looks at climate change in literature
Organizers for the upcoming Sunshine State Book Festival are focusing on climate change in their sixth annual event set for ...
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Emotions' Role in Coping with Natural Disasters
"Most disaster-management and climate-change policies and programs are based on the assumption that people are - or should be ...
Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations
When Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, refused military planes carrying deportees, infuriating President Trump, he ...
CCCB Barcelona’s Epic Amazon Exhibition Looks To An Ancestral Future
An extensive new exhibition at the CCCB in Barcelona takes a look at the art, culture, biodiversity and history of the Amazon ...
Doomsday clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to "global catastrophe"
The clock was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has moved 25 times since then. It can move backwards and forwards, with movement away from midnight showing that people can make positive ...
Atomic scientists adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer than ever to midnight, citing global tensions, climate change
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 89 seconds before midnight – the theoretical point of annihilation – ...
Latin American leaders are learning how to handle Trump. Colombia’s president showed how not to do it
A simmering diplomatic stand-off over deportation flights spilled onto social media Sunday, threatening the once close ...
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Doomsday Clock moves closest ever to apocalypse—at 89 seconds to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 28 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock are moving forward, to 89 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to apocalypse.
In the early going, Trump 2.0 approach on foreign policy is to talk loudly and carry a big stick
Donald Trump in his return to the White House has already previewed his second term foreign policy approach: Talk loudly and ...