Global heating directly increases gun violence, in the US at least. Shooting deaths are more frequent during heat waves.

Robert Reich: *Republicans fight over speaker of the House -- but whoever wins, the party loses.*

Spain is pushing to reduce the enormous environmental impact of discarded cigarette butts, which nowadays are made of plastic.

Brazil has resumed prosecuting across-the-board liar George Santos of a fraud that he more or less admitted committing, now that the prosecutors know where to find him. They plan to ask the US to extradite him.

Santos embodies more than any other person the spirit of the Republican Party.

Forbidding women from working for NGOs has made humanitarian aid in Afghanistan impossible -- those tens of thousands of workers were essential for them to operate.